Budget cuts prompts mass retirement of senior court staff in Kings county

Around 160 Brooklyn Supreme Court employees will be retiring, along with hundreds of other state employees, reported The Brooklyn Daily Eagle. They are taking advantage of the budget-cutting buyout package initiative that is being offered by New York lawmakers for the first time in almost a decade.

Statewide, about 11 percent of the court’s workforce is retiring. Court employees had to submit their decisions to the court by yesterday, expressing their intent to retire and receive the buyout package.