Mayor Urged to Protect Workers in Hiring Probe

A federal monitor reviewing hiring practices at Chicago City Hall wants an executive order from Mayor Richard Daley that protects city employees who cooperate with her investigation.

The executive order is necessary because it sends a message “that people who have provided information or may want to do that in the future aren’t going to be retaliated against,” said Noelle Brennan, the courtappointed attorney.

The mayor, who has not been accused of any wrongdoing, has not yet decided whether he will issue the order.

Brennan also wants about 300 city employees hired between April and August and the people who hired them to swear under penalty of perjury that politics played no role in the hiring process.