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Personnel outlines plan to process thousands of layoffs; timeline, staffing and accuracy cited as concerns
Summary
City personnel officials told the Budget and Finance Committee they plan to train more staff and use systems to process a large layoff and displacement workload but said the assumed four-month timeline and projected savings may be optimistic given data and resource constraints.
Personnel Department representatives told the Los Angeles City Budget and Finance Committee that the department is preparing to process a much larger layoff and displacement workload than in prior rounds and is training staff to conduct layoff calculations while trying to improve systems to limit manual work.
“This assumption is we’ll be able to process 1,600 folks in 4 months. That seems like a tall order,” a Personnel Department representative said, summarizing the department’s view of the timeline. The representative noted that the personnel department deployed 50 staff in 2010 and took roughly eight months to process several hundred…
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