Montreal Mayor Soraya Martinez Ferrada says she is implementing a hiring freeze that will apply to the city’s white-collar workers, professional staff and managers.

The city will pause external hiring for white-collar and professional positions, the mayor’s office said in a news release, while the nomination of managers will be suspended for both internal and external candidates.

The mayor says the number of city workers has increased significantly in recent years, but the level of service has declined and she wants to show the city can be an exemplary manager of its finances.

The freeze would not apply to the city’s boroughs or to the hiring of police officers, firefighters, school crossing guards and blue collar workers. The mayor’s office said the freeze will be in effect indefinitel

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