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Top Cuomo officials worked to gin up union support for Brad Hoylman’s run for Manhattan Borough President Denis Slattery
ALBANY High-ranking Cuomo administration officials attempted to drum up union support for New York State Sen. Brad Hoylman’s bid to become the next Manhattan Borough President, the Daily News has learned.
Multiple sources confirmed that calls were made on Hoylman’s behalf by Gov. Cuomo’s top aide Melissa DeRosa and others.
A few labor officials were left scratching their heads by the move since some of the calls came as the governor faced criticisms over his handling of COVID deaths in nursing homes and shortly before Hoylman joined other pols in publicly calling on Cuomo to resign amid sexual harassment allegations.
arrow Jean Kim and her attorney Patricia Pastor. April 28, 2021. Mary Altaffer/AP/Shutterstock
In 2014, Tony Caifano and his girlfriend Jean Kim found themselves huddled in freezing temperatures watching the inauguration of Bill de Blasio. Both were steeped in New York City’s political world: She was a well-known lobbyist, he served as the political action director for a printers union.
As they sat on steel folding chairs, Caifano could feel his toes becoming numb. But it was important for both of them to be there. “It was a see-and-be-seen kind of day,” he said.
The day would later become emblazoned in both their minds for other reasons. According to Kim, it was the last time she remembers interacting with Scott Stringer, the current city comptroller and mayoral candidate who she accused last week of sexually assaulting her when she volunteered on his 2001 public advocate campaign.
The legislation would establish a mandatory retirement savings program and a board to oversee it.
The New York City Council has passed a bill that would create a mandatory individual retirement account (IRA) program for employees of private sector employers that do not offer a retirement plan and have five or more employees. The council also passed another bill that would establish a board to oversee the retirement savings program.
The first bill would amend New York City’s administrative code to establish an automatic enrollment, payroll deduction retirement savings program for certain self-employed individuals and employees of private entities. The retirement plan would default to a Roth IRA with a contribution rate of 5% and an option to change rates up to the annual IRA maximum of $6,000 or $7,000 if age 50 or older or choose a regular IRA.
Legislation
Legislation establishing a retirement savings program for private sector entities in New York City that includes recommendations from the ARA has been sent to the mayor’s desk for his signature.
The New York City Council approved an amended bill (Int. No. 888-A) on April 29 to create a mandatory auto-enrollment payroll deduction IRA program for employees of private sector employers that do not offer a retirement plan and employ five or more employees.
According to a summary of the legislation sponsored by Council member Ben Kallos, the default employee contribution rate would be 5%, which employees could opt-out of at any time or adjust up or down to the annual IRA maximum of $6,000 (or $7,000 if age 50 or above) for 2021. The plan would be portable, allowing employees to continue to contribute or roll over their accounts into other retirement savings plans when they switch jobs.