PHILADELPHIA – Philadelphia city employees still working from home or in a hybrid capacity are being ordered back to work by a judge’s order.
A second day of testimony over Philadelphia Mayor Cherelle Parker’s return to office order produced the decision Friday. The judge rejected the argument made by the lawyers for the union that there should be an injunction to stop the remaining city employees from returning to work.
Senior staff were first ordered back to the office in February. Then last week, a city workers’ union filed a lawsuit against the Parker Administration for workers expected to return Monday.
In a City Hall courtroom, the white-collar city workers’ union tried to convince a judge she should stall Mayor Parker’s plan to bring all city workers back to the office by Monday.
The union believed they had a right to negotiate the mayor’s goal to get everybody back to work. Thursday and Friday, in court, there have …