Sentences with phrase «attorney general an employee»
In Ontario Public Service Employees Union v. Ministry of Attorney General an employee was ordered to repay $ 1,000.
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«Without strong action from the Department to ensure that DOJ employees meet the highest standards of conduct and accountability, the systemic issues we identified in our work may continue,» Horowitz wrote in a May 31 memo to Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein.
The attorney general's investigation began after a report surfaced that said employees of the websites were winning a lot of money betting at the rival's website.
This prompted several investigations at Uber, including one headed by former Attorney General Eric Holder, which led to the recent firing of more than 20 employees.
In June, the Illinois attorney general's office filed a lawsuit in Cook County Circuit Court against Jimmy John's, alleging the company imposes «highly restrictive non-compete agreements on its employees.»
At a packed meeting with employees on Tuesday morning, Uber released 13 pages of recommendations compiled as part of an investigation into sexual harassment and other wrongdoing conducted by the former attorney general Eric H. Holder Jr. and his law firm, Covington & Burling.
Late Monday, Kalanick issued a memo to employees announcing that former U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder will help lead an independent review.
On Friday morning, a large contingency of DFS players (including many employees from DraftKings and FanDuel) gathered outside the attorney general's office to protest the ruling.
The state attorney general's office has obtained city records and interviewed is employees in an investigation of the sale of tax - delinquent properties to Troy employees, city officials confirmed.
As attorney general, he convicted a Cortland County nursing home and several of its employees for patient neglect.
So close, in fact, that the Attorney General's office initially refused an open records request to provide communications between Schneiderman and Cunningham, claiming that the conversations fell under an exception for «intra-agency records» between state employees.
In early December, a different set of 20 states — a Republican group led by Michigan Attorney General Bill Schuette — filed their brief backing Mark Janus, the Illinois state employee challenging the agency - fees policy.
In a letter to Congress on Tuesday, New York Attorney General Andrew Cuomo confirmed that AIG paid 73 employees bonuses of more than $ 1 million each this year after it received federal bailout money.
A hearing scheduled for Wednesday in U.S. District Court in Albany will be the first courtroom encounter between Paterson — represented by lawyers from the attorney general's office — and four state workers unions that brought suit against the governor's plan to force employees to take a one - day - a-week furlough until the state's budget plan is finalized.
MIDTOWN — State Attorney General Eric Schneiderman has launched a probe into Harvey Weinstein's company to determine whether sexual abuse allegations against the Hollywood mogul amount to a violation of employees» civil rights.
Ford wrote letters late last month to U.S. Attorney Richard Donoghue of New York's Eastern District, Nassau District Attorney Madeline Singas, state Attorney General Eric T. Schneiderman and the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, asking for an investigation into Schnirman's handling of Long Beach finances and the payouts to Schnirman and other current and former city employees.
That step had long been sought by New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman, who filed a lawsuit against the company last month on behalf of its employees.
New York's attorney general is accusing Hollywood movie producer Harvey Weinstein of «repeatedly and persistently» sexually harassing female employees at his film company, according to a lawsuit filed on Sunday by the state prosecutor that could impact...
Mark - Viverito, like de Blasio and state Attorney General Eric Schneiderman, maintained the city is within its legal authority to limit the degree to which its public employees engage with ICE.
ALBANY — State Attorney General Eric Schneiderman is looking to ease the path for employees in his office who are undertaking a gender transition.
According to a lawsuit filed by state Attorney General Eric Schneiderman's office against the corporate franchiser that owns Domino's Pizza, the computer system used by franchises across the state systematically undercounted hours worked by employees, shortchanging them hundreds of thousands of dollars.
The Public Employees Federation on Friday confirmed it had endorsed Democratic Senate hopeful Oliver Koppell, a former city councilman and attorney general running against Independent Democratic Conference Leader Jeff Klein.
Koppell's Twitter account responded to the endorsement saying, «As NYS Attorney General, I successfully worked with PEF's Dept of Law employees.
Attorney General Eric Schneiderman on Wednesday announced his office had reached a settlement with Law360 to end the practice of non-compete agreements for the vast majority of its employees.
A person familiar with the case said Leahy - Scott's office has not referred the case to Attorney General Eric Schneiderman, who prosecutes criminal wrongdoing involving state government employees.
Early in his career, Giglio served as a special assistant to then - New York State Attorney General Dennis Vacco, as an employee of the Cattaraugus County Sheriff's Department, responsible for coordinating efforts with all branches of government.
«In the last three years Attorney General Schneiderman has gone after more than 40 politicians, government employees and nonprofit officials who abused the public trust,» he said in an email.
Government employees around the state — from commissioners to toll collectors to mechanics — are padding their lifelong pensions by working huge amounts of overtime right before they retire, Attorney General Andrew Cuomo reported yesterday.
Kinirons, an assistant attorney general since 2006, has served as legal counsel representing the state, its agencies and employees.
«This is a guy who misused the State Police and public employees in the Troopergate scandal, and he should not be attacking a hardworking and accomplished attorney general.
Someone also needs to follow the Forest Ratner trail / Atlantic yards former employee who worked with Joe Percoco when Cuomo was Attorney General.
State Attorney General Eric Schneiderman today will unveil a new policy that affirms the right of an employee «to openly be who you are» and maps out a process for staff and supervisors to follow in dealing with gender transition.
The Post names one as Lila Kirton, an employee of Spitzer's at the attorney general's office who then followed him to the governor's New York City office, where she served as the director of community affairs (and made a nice $ 150,000 a year, to boot).
TWC has also released its employees from their nondisclosure agreements per negotiations with New York attorney general Eric Schneiderman.
That step had long been sought by New York State Attorney General Eric Schneiderman, who filed a lawsuit against the company last month on behalf of its employees.
A lawsuit filed by New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman on behalf of the Weinstein Co.'s employees complicated that transaction, and it ultimately fell apart.
The attorney general's also took on the practice of pension «spiking,» in which public employees stacked up large amounts of overtime during their final years of service to boost their pensions.
SUNY Poly's President Alain Kaloyeros, the state's highest - paid employee and a major player in Cuomo's Upstate high - tech projects like the Buffalo Billion and the Central New York film hub in DeWitt, is a key focus of the attorney general's investigation, The Wall Street Journal reported.
State Attorney General George Jepsen went to the Capitol to brief leaders of the majority Democrats and minority Republicans in the state House and Senate on the complex and unusually structured settlement that his office had negotiated with attorneys for the State Employees Bargaining Agent Coalition (SEBAC) after a federal appeals court panel said in 2013 that Rowland's action had been illegal.
More than a dozen agents from the Federal Bureau of Investigation and the Internal Revenue Service, joined by investigators from the office of Attorney General Andrew M. Cuomo, arrived at Soundview's offices on White Plains Road shortly before 7 a.m., when the first employees arrived to open the doors for the day.
------------------------------------ Attorney General Eric Schneiderman announced the arrest and arraignment of 4 former employees of Focus Rehabilitation and Nursing Center in Cooperstown, who are accused of leaving a 94 - year - old patient left in a recliner with substandard care for 41 hours over the Memorial Day weekend in May.
As attorney general, Cuomo exposed what he described as systemic pension fund abuses in which government contractors — including lawyers and doctors for school districts across the state — wrongfully had themselves listed as employees in order to collect taxpayer - funded pensions.
In the civil lawsuit that Attorney General Andrew Cuomo brought against Espada in April, the Senator was accused of having employees from his Soundview health clinics illegally work on his campaigns while they were being paid by the clinics.
«As alleged in our complaint, The Weinstein Company repeatedly broke New York law by failing to protect its employees from pervasive sexual harassment, intimidation, and discrimination,» state Attorney General Eric Schneiderman said in court papers filed against Weinstein and the company.
Probationary police officers are «at - will» employees, meaning they can be dismissed without the employer having to prove «just cause» for the termination, according to the state attorney general's office.
New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman filed a lawsuit in Brooklyn Supreme Court on Thursday against a carwash business that allegedly stole more than $ 540,000 in wages and benefits from its employees.
New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman (D) filed a lawsuit against the business and the brothers who founded it, saying the company violated employees» rights by «failing to protect its employees from pervasive sexual harassment, intimidation, and discrimination.»
Attorney General Andrew Cuomo has shone a spotlight on «double - dipping,» saying that the practice of government employees collecting salaries and public pensions at the same time is helping drive the state's retirement costs dangerously high.
And two weeks ago, New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman filed a civil rights lawsuit against the Weinstein Co., stating that the studio «repeatedly broke New York law by failing to protect its employees from pervasive sexual harassment, intimidation, and discrimination.»
In 2014, following a two - year investigation by the FBI and state attorney general's office, Tanski pleaded guilty to a misdemeanor in Saratoga County and admitted using six accomplices, including his employees, to conceal large political donations to Wormuth at a time when she was seeking to run for re-election.