City admits giving wrong data in response to inspector general report

The heads of two city agencies have acknowledged that a statistic they used to try to flip the narrative of the latest inspector general report about working conditions faced by sanitation workers was off by a wide margin. Originally, Human Resources Director Quinton Herbert and Public Works Director Khalil Zaied reported that “approximately 56% of the DPW employees” who attended a city-run digital training class were from the Bureau of Solid Waste.