The Fourth Department allowed a late employment-discrimination notice of claim because the employee’s timely grievance gave BOCES actual knowledge and preserved its ability to investigate.
The Fourth Department held that a public-employee union agreement requiring dues through the annual revocation window was an enforceable payment obligation, not unlawful liquidated damages.
The Fourth Department reinstated a Rochester Police Accountability Board employee because no written delegation authorized her disciplinary hearing and the deciding official should have recused herself.
The Fourth Department reinstated battery and Human Rights Law claims, holding that consent, physical helplessness, and management participation presented fact questions.
The Fourth Department confirms that Charter Communications unlawfully retaliated against a former employee by sending letters threatening attorneys’ fees if he pursued his age-discrimination complaint at SDHR rather than through arbitration.