Unkind Cut Heals As Probie Fired Over Surgery is Rehired By Mark Toor February 18, 2011 – The city has agreed to give a Probationary Correction Officer her job back after she was fired for absenteeism because she took 13 days of sick leave for gall-bladder surgery. The officer, Christina Maldonado, was hired Feb. 28, […]

“People Starved Out”: Westchester Sanctioned For Docking Injured COs’ Pay By Mark Toor November 15, 2010 – The head of the Westchester Correction Officers’ Benevolent Association hopes that a recent court order will force the county to stop cutting off pay to Correction Officers who have been injured in the line of duty. “When officers […]

DOT Bridge-Painting Unit Found Guilty Of Bias Against Women By Ari Paul May 21, 2010 – Women were ranked arbitrarily. A Federal Judge in Manhattan ruled May 13 that the city wrongfully refused to hire female Bridge Painters at the Department of Transportation “in spite of societal norms, sound business practice, and city, state and […]

By Sunil Joshi March 25, 2010 – Albert Garcia was manning the grill at a McDonald’s in the Bronx late one night when Officer John Florio of the New York Police Department bought a Big Mac in the drive-through. The next day, Garcia was arrested, with Florio alleging that Garcia, then 18 years old, put […]

Cop Lied to Detectives, the DA and the Court in Order to Collect a $6,000,000 Pay Day from McDonald’s New York, New York March 25, 2010 – At a press conference held at noon today Raymond Aab, who is of counsel to Isaacs, Devasia, Castro & Wien LLP announced that in a major decision, a […]

By David Sims February 26, 2010 – A Housing Authority Caretaker who was assaulted by residents but then had internal disciplinary charges filed against her, which she claimed came in retaliation for her benefits application, was exonerated Feb. 3. “I came to work on Feb. 26, 2009, and I was jumped on the job by […]

By Mark Hamblett December 08, 2009 – A supervisor’s purposeful ignorance of possible sexual harassment will not shield an employer from liability under Title VII, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit has ruled. Vacating part of the dismissal of a sexual harassment lawsuit brought against the New York State Office of Court Administration, […]

By Tommy Hallissey May 29, 2009 – After the Correction Officers’ Benevolent Association threatened to sue the Department of Correction over its handling of at least 10 cases of swine flu on Rikers Island, the agency May 21 decided to screen all inmates and take other steps to safeguard officers’ health. A day before the […]

By Liz Robbins May 21, 2009 – The city shut two more school buildings in Queens on Wednesday and another charter school decided to cancel classes amid a sharp increase in flulike illnesses that brought the total to 30 closed schools across the four boroughs. As the number of cases rose, worried parents flooded hospital […]