Reapply Richmond Free Press Most of City’s HR employees’ jobs no longer guaranteed Hall, but we’ve been left in the dark’

But three department employees have separately told the Free Press that effective Friday, all of the remaining full-time employees are to be laid off except for the three top managers, who include Robin Redmond, the interim director.

is the heartbeat of City Hall, but we’ve been left in the dark.

None of us knows what will happen.” city’s

The workers said they were told at a staff meeting in early February and urged to reapply for new positions that are being advertised, but that there were no guarantees they would have jobs.

As one employee put it, “We’ve been told our department

The three employees who discussed the situation would not allow their names to be used for fear they would face retaliation and lose any prospect of retaining a city position.

The department has been short-handed. According to the city’s 2022-23 budget book, Human Resources was authorized to have

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A race to the finish

4th Congressional District voters will choose McClellan or Benjamin on Feb. 21

By Jeremy Lazarus

Jennifer L. McClellan’s campaign to become the first Black woman to represent Virginia in Congress will culminate next week in a special election she is heavily favored to win — and most aptly during Black History Month.

Having eliminated three male opponents in the “firehouse” Democratic primary, Richmond’s popular senior state senator only has to beat the Donald Trump-worshipping Republican candidate, Leon Benjamin Sr., in her sprint to become the next representative from the 4th Congressional District. Voters will make the decision Tuesday, Feb. 21, in filling the seat previously held by the late Congressman A. Donald McEachin, who died