The former treasurer of a school district in Syracuse claims he took the fall when the school superintendent authorized overspending on the yearly budget. According to one report, the school district end-of-year expense budget was over $11,000, but auditors claimed...
Democratic Representative Louise Slaughter of New York is taking the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission to task in order to curtail employer wellness programs that requireemployees to fill out extensive health questionnaires. She contends such information is...
A fired county 911 director has filed an appeal for her termination and is demanding back pay. The claimant has stated she was a victim of wrongful termination and harassment by administrators on the job in events leading up to her being let go. Some county officials...
As of January 1, 2015, a new federal law will go into effect extending minimum wage and overtime pay to domestic workers. The law will provide major benefits in care for the elderly and for disabled Americans, who will now fall under the purview of the Fair Labor...
A young woman employed by a non-profit agency in the Bronx filed sexual harassment charges against her boss after she was fired from the agency. The woman states she was let go since she refused to accept sexual advances by her male supervisor on numerous occasions....
A former employee of a Long Island school district has filed a lawsuit for wrongful termination. The district claims he was dismissed for poor job performance, but the victim feels it was a retaliatory act resulting from his exposure of the district's widespread...
Stereotypes abound at the workplace. Age discrimination has been no exception but recent trends seem to indicate that employers are finding justification for hiring more mature workers. While previous criticism of senior employees has included their resistance to...
A huge stride has been marked with the passage of a bill that would guarantee overtime pay for domestic workers who work more than nine-hour days in a 45-hour week. California became the second state after New York to support such a bill.The new legislature, AB-241,...
A jury decision recently re-emphasized the use of the n-word is not acceptable anytime, anyplace. While the racial slur has come to be acceptable among the black community, the court found otherwise, ruling its use is just plain wrong. The controversial word has been...
A Manhattan federal judge has dismissed five of the six gender discrimination claims filed against the Bloomberg Financial News Corporation. The plaintiffs are current and former employees who claimed their careers were negatively impacted six years ago when they...
