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Timestamp: 2018-04-20 20:33:27
Document Index: 222614948

Matched Legal Cases: ['§64', '§73', '§72', '§363', '§207', '§71']

New York Public Personnel Law: January 2017
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Some of the topics addressed in the more than 4,500 cases summarized in New York Public Personnel Law.
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A collective bargaining agreement may expand an employer's obligation to provide information to an employee organization not specifically provided for by law
A contingent permanent appointment made pursuant to §64.4 of the Civil Service Law must be specifically so identified by the appointing authority
A court's standards of review of decisions that are the product of compulsory arbitration differ from its standard of review of decisions resulting from voluntary arbitration procedures
A police officer holds a position of great sensitivity and trust and is subject to a higher standard of fitness and character are "ordinary civil servants"
A school board member who acts on the advice of counsel will not be found to have engaged in a willful violation or neglect of duty
Acquiring tenure in the position by tenure by "operation of law," sometimes referred to as tenure by estoppel or tenure by acquiesce
An administrative disciplinary hearing, in whole or in part, may be closed to the public under certain, and limited, circumstances
An agency investigating a particular complaint on behalf of an employee may not, without prior notice to the employer, make broad findings of fact involving the employer's "over-all operations" and impose sanctions
An agency may decline to acknowledge that requested records exist in response to a Freedom of Information Law request
An employee on leave from work due to a reasonable fear of domestic violence is not "unavailable" or unwilling to work for the purposes of eligibility for unemployment insurance benefits
An employee's failure to use the grievance procedure set out in the relevant collective bargaining agreement before commencing an Article 78 action may not be excused by the court
An employee's unreasonable failure to use an employer-provided preventive or remedial apparatus bars the consideration of his or her complaints of unlawful discrimination
An employer may be vicariously liable for an allegedly slanderous statement made by its employee
Applying for reinstatement following a §73 termination from a §72 disability leave
Applying the Pell Doctrine in a disciplinary action
Attempting to vacate an adverse arbitration award rendered after a consensual arbitration process
Courts, when determining if a penalty is so disproportionate to the charged offense[s] as to shock one's sense of fairness, must consider all the relevant circumstances
Determining if a complaint alleging sexual harassment based a claim of a continuing violation of New York State's Human Rights Law is timely
Determining if a demand for arbitration of alleged violations of provisions set out in a collective bargaining agreement is viable
Determining if an individual is an employee of an employer
Determining if the parties agreed to resolve a particular grievance pursuant to the terms of the arbitration clause set out in a collective bargaining agreement
Determining when "actual notice," in contrast to "constructive notice," of an administrative action is required to trigger the running of the Statute of Limitations for filing an Article 78 action
Discontinuing or postponing administrative disciplinary action while criminal action involving the same event is pending and related issues
Disqualifying an employee for employment in the public service and revoking his or her appointment based on a finding of fraud of a substantial nature in his or her application for employment
Educator terminated for a continuing pattern of inappropriate behavior involving students
Exploring claimed procedural obstacles to demands for certain records pursuant to New York's Freedom of Information Law
Failure of the individual to timely execute his or her oath of office upon election to a public office results in the position becoming vacant by operation of law
Fair Labor Standards Act not applicable to personnel employed by an "educational establishment"
Guidelines applicable when police officer being sued in a civil action seeks to have his or her employer provide for his or her defense and indemnification in the civil action
Hearsay may constitute "substantial evidence" supporting the tribunal's findings in an administrative hearing
Hiring policy prohibiting the appointment of teachers "above Step 5" found unlawful discrimination because of age
Imposing a lesser disciplinary penalty than the one recommended by the disciplinary hearing officer
Judicial review of a determination arrived at following a quasi-judicial hearing is typically limited to determining if the decision is supported by substantial evidence
Jurisdictional reclassification of positions in the Classified Service
Light duty assignments involving law enforcement personnel
Mere speculation and bare legal conclusions without any factual support set out in an Article 78 petition are ineffective in rebutting a defendant's motion to dismiss
New York City police officer who filed fabricated complaints with the New York City Civilian Complaint Review Board dismissed from the department
New York courts use a "two-prong" test to determine if a dispute between a public sector employer and public sector employees may be submitted to arbitration
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Petitioning the Commissioner of Education to remove a member of a school board from his or her office
Police offices and firefighters applying for accidental disability retirement benefits must demonstrate that his or her incapacity was the "natural and proximate result of an accident" within the meaning of §363[a][1] of the Retirement and Social Security Law
Public policy prohibits an employer from bargaining away its right to remove those employees satisfying the plain and clear statutory requisites for termination
Reassigning a member of the President's Cabinet to another Cabinet position
Reimbursing NYSHIP Medicare-eligible retirees for Medicare Part B premiums
Resignation from a position in the public service must be in writing
Retired State employee charged with "double dipping" to make total restitution in the amount of $156,918.20
Should an entity grants a request to postpone an administrative hearing, it is required take appropriate action to reschedule the hearing
Some exceptions to the Doctrine of Exhaustion of Administrative Remedies
Summarily terminating a federal officer holding a term appointment from his or her position
Suspension of a tenured teacher requires the timely filing of written charges and specifications with the clerk or secretary of the board of education
Tenured teacher unwilling to improve her pedagogical skills despite being provided with substantial assistance terminated from her position
Terminating the Special Counsel
Termination of a police officer on General Municipal Law §207-c leave under color of Civil Service Law §71
Termination of an employee during a probationary period or traineeship
Termination of employment pursuant to Civil Service Law Section 73
The actions of an employee prior to his or her promotion may properly form the basis for terminating the individual prior to the completion of his or her probationary period
The authority of a court to modify an arbitration award is limited
The basis for challenging a decision by a civil service commission are limited
The collective bargaining representative's duty of fair representation
The Commissioner of Education does not have jurisdiction to consider claims that an employee organization breached its duties of fair representation
Unemployment Insurance Appeals Board may apply the doctrine of collateral estoppel to a disciplinary determination made after a hearing in determining if an individual is disqualified for unemployment insurance benefits
Unlawful discrimination complaint sustained notwithstanding respondent's failing to appear at the administrative hearing conducted by the NYS Division of Human Rights
Videotape made by witnesses that observed the alleged misconduct of the employee admissible as evidence in his or her disciplinary hearing
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