City Workers Complaints

A vocal group of Monroe city workers tell the Monroe Dispatch that Mayor Friday Ellis appears to have reneged on a promise to do something about temporary employees at city hall. Sources share with the Monroe Dispatch that Ellis allegedly made an announcement over a year ago that the city would “reduce” the number of temporary employees employed by the city, but this has not materialized. There are allegedly many temporary employees working for the city long past the 90-day clause that calls for those employees to be converted over to full-time status. One of the issues that the city appears t...