{"id":357768,"date":"2026-07-01T21:05:12","date_gmt":"2026-07-01T21:05:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/357768\/"},"modified":"2026-07-01T21:05:12","modified_gmt":"2026-07-01T21:05:12","slug":"city-of-dallas-employees-required-to-take-furlough-days","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/357768\/","title":{"rendered":"City of Dallas employees required to take furlough days"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>DALLAS \u2014 City of Dallas employees will be required to take several unpaid furlough days between now and September as the city addresses a financial shortfall.<\/p>\n<p>Non-uniform employees funded by the city\u2019s general fund will be required to participate in the furlough by working three days without pay, according to a June 30 <a href=\"https:\/\/content.govdelivery.com\/bulletins\/gd\/TXDALLAS-41e3e99?wgt_ref=TXDALLAS_WIDGET_3\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">news release<\/a> from the city. The days will be recorded as leave without pay, and employees won\u2019t be able to use sick leave, vacation or comp time.<\/p>\n<p>General fund and internal service fund non-uniform executives at or above the assistant director level will be required to take an additional two floating furlough days before Sept. 16.<\/p>\n<p>In a <a href=\"https:\/\/content.govdelivery.com\/bulletins\/gd\/TXDALLAS-41e72d3?wgt_ref=TXDALLAS_WIDGET_3\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">statement<\/a>, Dallas Mayor Eric Johnson said the city\u2019s revenue this year hasn\u2019t \u201cmet projections, resulting in a tighter than anticipated budget.\u201d Johnson went on to say he has \u201cfought for the City to significantly reduce its spending\u201d since becoming mayor \u201cwith little support from the City Council.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>According to the city&#8217;s release, budget reduction strategies \u2014 including a selective hiring freeze, eliminating overtime and suspending non-essential travel \u2014\u00a0were implemented in April. Despite this, the city says general fund expenses continue to outpace revenue.<\/p>\n<p>Councilmember Adam Bazaldua said in a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/DaN_q04k3-7\/?hl=en\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">statement<\/a> it was \u201cincredibly disappointing\u201d to find out about the furloughs \u201cvia correspondence intended for the media, instead of a one-to-one conversations, so that council feedback could be factored into this decision.\u201d He went on to say he doesn\u2019t support the furloughs as a sustainable cost-saving method.<\/p>\n<p>Employees exempt from the mandatory furloughs include police officers, firefighters, paramedics, 911 employees and enterprise fund departments including Dallas Water Utilities, aviation, convention and event services and sanitation.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFurloughs are not our preferred solution; however, they enable us to reduce expenses, protect jobs and employee health benefits, and continue delivering services to our residents,\u201d Dallas City Manager Kimberly Bizor Tolbert said in the news release. \u201cThese steps are necessary to navigate the current financial challenges and to position the City responsibly for the upcoming FY27 and FY28 biennial budget.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"DALLAS \u2014 City of Dallas employees will be required to take several unpaid furlough days between now and&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":294405,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[3564,1226,3565,102,8082,138,140,139,223,27],"class_list":["post-357768","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-el-paso","tag-app-community","tag-christine-sanchez","tag-community-news","tag-dallas","tag-dfw-what-you-need-to-know","tag-el-paso","tag-el-paso-headlines","tag-el-paso-news","tag-news","tag-texas"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/357768","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=357768"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/357768\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/294405"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=357768"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=357768"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=357768"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}