CHICAGO – The City of Chicago has signed a $30 million spending increase with Favorite Healthcare Staffing to continue to provide staffing for the city’s.
Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson’s administration is defending its decision to renew a lucrative $40 million contract with Favorite Healthcare Staffing to staff.
Mayor Brandon Johnson’s administration has renewed a controversial contract with the company from suburban Kansas City that staffs the city’s migrant shelters despite the firm billing the city significant overtime and the administration saying it intended to replace the company with cheaper, local alternatives. On Monday, Favorite Healthcare Staffing and the city signed a $40 million extension .
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CHICAGO — When a security guard clocked out of a Streeterville migrant shelter one Friday in March, he’d just logged his 84th hour at work that week. His bosses told the city it was at least his 56th day in a row working a 12-hour shift, according to invoices they filed with the city — invoices whose sizable overtime helped contribute to tens of millions in city payments to the firm staffing .