Sentences with phrase «in backpay»

Israel pointed to work he's done with New York's veterans and military families, including securing $ 8.3 million in backpay.

There are unfunded mandates and lack of aid from the state, and while he has provided more money for education, it is less than the Campaign for Fiscal Equity settlement [the 2006 court ruling requiring the state to pay billions in backpay to shortchanged school districts]... When [Assembly Speaker Carl] Heastie proposed a slightly progressive income tax, he just rejected it.

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There have been many developments in securities whistleblower rulings over the years, but none as compelling as Justice Ginsburg's opinion in Digital Realty Trust, Inc., vs. Somers which held that an employee who merely reports potential securities law violations internally has not done enough to avail himself of the extensive Dodd - Frank anti-retaliation protections, including «the immediate access to federal court, a generous statute of limitations (at least six years), and the opportunity to recover double backpay.»

Employment attorneys have experience in allocating settlement payments among types of relief that have different tax consequences (e.g., among backpay, attorneys» fees, and emotional injury damages in settling employment discrimination claims, or among overtime, liquidated damages and attorneys» fees in settling FLSA claims).

She relies on Title VII's § 706 (g), which permits a court to award affirmative relief when it finds that an employer «has intentionally engaged in or is intentionally engaging in an unlawful employment practice,» and yet forbids a court to order reinstatement of, or backpay to,