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Going hybrid? Get a remote work policy, attorney says "If an employer doesnt have a remote work policy in the handbook already, or even as a stand-alone policy, they need to add that immediately." Published May 17, 2021 Sean Gallup via Getty Images Employers may shed many of the changes the pandemic pushed on them, but its likely that remote work is not on the list of things to go, at least not entirely. Hybrid work — a ...

Cities struggle to recruit and retain officers amid increasing crime Demonstrators and officers at the police headquarters in downtown Kansas City, Mo. Associated Press/Photo by Charlie Riedel (file) The majority of employees at the Brookline, Mass., police department have considered leaving in recent weeks, some after decades of service, according to an anonymous survey conducted between Feb. 22 and March 6. It found 86 percent of respondents described morale as...

Subscribe The number of Philadephia police officers filing for early retirement is already six times higher than all of last year. In New York, more than 5,300 NYPD uniformed officers retired or put in their papers to leave in 2020, a 75 percent jump from the year before. Amid the national debate over the deadly use of force and growing calls for police reform, police departments are struggling to attract and retain law enforcement members. That includes the Delaware Valley. Union leaders and p...

Mensah M. Dean, Julie Shaw and Vinny Vella Philadelphia Police officers cross a road on the east side of Philadelphia City Hall on April 15, heading to the Criminal Justice Center. Police in Philly and beyond are struggling with a shortage of police recruits and a surge in retirements. The Philadelphia Inquirer photo by Alejandro A. Alvarez via AP PHILADELPHIA — Amid growing calls for police reform and national debate over the deadly use of force, police departments in Philadelphia and bey...

Police faces see recruitment struggles, surge in retirements MENSAH M. DEAN, JULIE SHAW and VINNY VELLA, The Philadelphia Inquirer May 1, 2021 FacebookTwitterEmail PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Amid growing calls for police reform and national debate over the deadly use of force, police departments in Philadelphia and beyond are struggling to retain and attract officers, law enforcement officials say. Across the region and the nation, police officials and union leaders described the state of recruiting...

Police departments struggle to keep and attract officers Updated May 01, 2021; Posted May 01, 2021 Protesters confront police during a march, Tuesday Oct. 27, 2020, in Philadelphia. Hundreds of demonstrators marched in West Philadelphia over the death of Walter Wallace, a Black man who was killed by police. (AP Photo/Matt Slocum, file)AP Facebook Share By MENSAH M. DEAN, JULIE SHAW and VINNY VELLA, The Philadelphia Inquirer PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Amid growing calls for police reform and nation...

WHYY By Police officers keep a watchful eye as peaceful protesters march down Flatbush Avenue on Tuesday, April 20, 2021, in the Brooklyn borough of New York. (AP Photo/Brittainy Newman) Derek Chauvin’s conviction on murder charges in the Minneapolis police killing of George Floyd was rare, both in terms of the outcome of the trial and what led up to the verdict. There have been countless cases over the years of law enforcement killing people on camera, and a vast majority of officers have wa...

Who wants to be a police officer? Mensah M. Dean, - The Philadelphia Inquirer Protesters march up North Front Street on April 13 in Columbus, demonstrating against the fatal shooting of a Black man shot and killed by police in Westerville, Ohio. Amid growing calls for police reform and national debate over the deadly use of force, police departments are struggling to retain and attract officers, law enforcement officials say. Across the nation, police officials and union leaders described the ...

Police departments bracing for staffing shortages as retirements rise amid a ‘recruiting crisis’ Updated 1:40 PM; Today 1:40 PM Chicago police officers put up crime scene tape on Feb. 28, 2020. Law enforcement officials attribute a decline in interest in police jobs to a confluence of recent events. (John J. Kim/Chicago Tribune/TNS)TNS Facebook Share Across the nation, police officials and union leaders described the state of recruiting as in “crisis” mode. “It’s the perfect storm...