According to City Council President and mayoral challenger Sharon Ashe-Nadrowski, a Hatch Act violation has been filed against Mayor James Davis after an employee group called “Female Workers of Bayonne” issued a formal complaint to Bayonne’s Human Resources Director Deborah Falciani, Law Director Jay Coffey, Business Administrator Melissa Mathews, the Office of the Mayor, and the City Council.
The Bayonne Community News has obtained a copy of the aforementioned employee complaint.
The complaint stated that, starting March 1, the mayor started taking photos with female city employees and publishing them on the mayor’s political and personal social media pages as part of an effort to highlight female employees at City Hall for Women’s History Month. According to the complaint, this occurred while the employees were at City Hall during the work day.
“Here is yet another example of the disrespect of residents and workers rooted in the Davis Administration.” said Ashe-Nadrowski.
The complaint cited several incidents where members of Davis’ staff took pictures of female city employees while they were at work and posted them on his political campaign page. The images are usually also posted to the City of Bayonne social media pages. The employee group cited feeling uncomfortable and feared retribution if they refused to be in the pictures.
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