She wants to change the law that governs public authorities in New York so that
public authority employees who serve at will, such as Jann, would be able to collect no more than three months of severance pay.
Assemblywoman Monica Wallace, D - Lancaster, wants to change the law that governs public authorities in New York so that
public authority employees who serve at will, such as Water Authority Executive Director Earl L. Jann Jr., would be able to collect no more than three months of severance pay, not years» of severance as Jann's pact allows.
Legislator Kevin Hardwick announced he has introduced a resolution asking New York State lawmakers to amend the Public Authorities Law which currently allows «golden parachute» payouts for
public authority employees.
«Guaranteeing a massive payout to
a public authority employee is a waste of taxpayer dollars and a sign of a broken system.
Not exact matches
So before taking any action against
employees who refuse to work, consider guidance from
public authorities and whatever other employers in the same geographic area are doing.
Effective immediately, I am directing City Departments under my
authority to bar any publicly - funded City
employee travel to the State of Indiana that is not absolutely essential to
public health and safety.
And there is still no mandate for the civil
authorities to be contacted when there is an accusation of abuse, as
public school
employees are required.
Here's a list of bonus payments made to
employees of state and local
public authorities during the 2009 reporting year.
The bill pitted
public -
employee unions against the Nassau Interim Finance
Authority, the state - imposed county financial control board, over the issue of «step raises,» or salary hikes based on time on the job.
«No
employee shall commit any act or neglect any duty which in any way is prejudicial to good order, discipline, or efficiency, or reflects unfavorably upon the good name and reputation of the Port
Authority, or adversely affects the interests of the Port
Authority or those of the general
public.»
The head of the New York City Housing
Authority (NYCHA), landlord to more than 400,000 New Yorkers and leader of more than 11,000
employees serving about 178,000 apartments in nearly 2,600 buildings, believes that the future of
public housing in the city must be driven by the same type of innovation embodied in its early years.
The fine print also says the governor will not take money from a state agency officer, an
employee who serves at the pleasure of the governor or other members of
public authorities or other boards appointed by the governor.
Current state law requires
public school administrators to report a school
employee's inappropriate behavior with students to
authorities immediately.
«No state agency officer or
employee who serves at the pleasure of the governor or their appointing
authority or members of state
public authority or other boards appointed by the governor may contribute to and / or fund - raise for Andrew Cuomo 2018,» the website says.
The old disclaimer read: «No State agency officer or
employee who serves at the pleasure of the governor or their appointing
authority or members of state
public authority or other boards appointed by the governor may contribute to and / or fund - raise for Andrew Cuomo 2018.»
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.
In addition to the state agencies, including SUNY and CUNY,
public sector
employees like Kaloyeros and Pato can earn more if they are paid through
authorities or other quasi-
public entities created by the state to carry out specific functions.
Comptroller Tom DiNapoli reports that the state's
public authorities pay more than $ 7 billion annually to more than 104,000
employees, including nearly $ 1.8 billion to those earning more than $ 100,000.
The governor vetoed a bill that would have allowed some
public employees in Nassau County to receive «step» raises even when county wages are frozen — a measure that pitted
public -
employee unions against the Nassau Interim Finance
Authority, the state - imposed county financial control board.
Gov. Andrew Cuomo today declared he was using his executive
authority to raise the minimum wage for state
employees to $ 15 an hour — and called upon the city to do the same for its
public workers.
Assemblyman Sam Hoyt wants the Legislature to pass a bill eliminating bonuses for
public authorities board members and
employees.
An audit says
employees of New York
public authorities are paid more than 7 billion dollars a year.
A Water
Authority staffer apparently consulted with a county staffer, who wrongly stated the Water
Authority was not required to file disclosure forms, which require
public employees to list investments, ownership stakes, gifts and positions held the prior year.
While at the
authority, he called for three years of «net zero» increases in labor costs; that was in line with what his predecessor, Jay H. Walder, had pursued and in line with the contracts that Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo had negotiated with the state's
public employee unions.
In an extensive review of records and data and dozens of interviews with political insiders, Newsday examined the professional history, campaign contributions and family ties of each of the
public authority's 174
employees since 2003 with reported earnings to the state pension system.
That law states: «No statewide elected official, state officer or
employee, member of the Legislature or legislative
employee may participate in any decision to hire, promote, discipline or discharge a relative for any compensated position at, for, or within any state agency,
public authority, or the Legislature.»
He represented the administration on the
Public Employee Retirement Administration Commission (2001 - 03) and the Massachusetts School Building
Authority (2005 - 06).
Washington — Day - care
authorities and business leaders meeting last week under the auspices of the National Governors» Association called on state governments to encourage private industry to provide programs for their
employees» children and to expand services available through
public schools.
Earlier this week, skills minister Nick Boles announced new plans that will require all
public authorities with more than 250
employees to recruit 2.3 per cent of their staff as apprentices each year.
Accordingly, the People of the State of California declare that to secure the constitutional guarantee of students and staff to be safe and secure in their persons at
public primary, elementary, junior high and senior high school campuses, school districts must have the appropriate statutory
authority to expeditiously remove and permanently dismiss perpetrators of egregious misconduct without facing lengthy and costly litigation or creating incentives to transfer the school
employee to another assignment, school or school district.
The U.S. Department of Transportation (DOT) is committed to protecting current and former Federal
employees and applicants for employment from interference and retaliation when making protected disclosures, or «whistleblowing,» which includes disclosing information related to a violation of law, rule, or regulation; gross mismanagement; gross waste of funds; abuse of
authority; or a substantial and specific danger to
public health or safety.
These provisions are consistent with and do not supersede, conflict with or otherwise alter the
employee obligations, rights, or liabilities created by existing statute or Executive order relating to (1) classified information, (2) communications to Congress, (3) the reporting to an Inspector General of a violation of any law, rule, or regulation, or mismanagement, a gross waste of funds, an abuse of
authority, or a substantial and specific danger to
public health or safety, or (4) any other whistleblower protection.
(e) It shall be unlawful for any officer or
employee of the Commission tomake
public in any manner whatever any information obtained by the Commission pursuant to its
authority under this section prior to the institution of any proceeding under this title involving such information.
The object of coercion is state
authority in the person of certain civil
employees or the general
public represented by separate residents (counting aliens or civil
employees of some countries).
Jeff Ruch, who directs
Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility, sent a fresh note about an under - appreciated risk that's building as long as federal
authorities don't directly challenge the anti-government zealots who've taken over Oregon's Malheur National Wildlife Refuge.
While most employers will not be subject to a Charter analysis regarding the search of company issued equipment (the Charter only applies to governmental
authorities,
public sector
employees and the police), this is an important result for employers as this decision can be expected to have broader implications on the evolving issue of privacy in the modern workplace and the growing recognition of
employee privacy.
A management restriction on
employees wearing blue jeans and shorts at the office was found by an arbitrator to be a contravention of the employer's established workplace attire policy in Canadian Union of Public Employees, Local 1767 v. BC Assessment Authority (Workplace Attire Grievance), [2015] B.C.C.A.A.A. No. 67 (Dorsey) and the restriction was ordered to be r
employees wearing blue jeans and shorts at the office was found by an arbitrator to be a contravention of the employer's established workplace attire policy in Canadian Union of
Public Employees, Local 1767 v. BC Assessment Authority (Workplace Attire Grievance), [2015] B.C.C.A.A.A. No. 67 (Dorsey) and the restriction was ordered to be r
Employees, Local 1767 v. BC Assessment
Authority (Workplace Attire Grievance), [2015] B.C.C.A.A.A. No. 67 (Dorsey) and the restriction was ordered to be rescinded.
Jonathan R. Mook is a nationally recognized
authority on the Americans with Disabilities Act and is the author of two treatises published by Matthew Bender Company, «Americans with Disabilities Act:
Employee Rights and Employer Obligations» and «Americans with Disabilities Act:
Public Accommodations and Commercial Facilities.»
In the PSESA, the
public employer has the unilateral
authority to dictate whether and how essential services will be maintained, including the
authority to determine the classifications of
employees who have to continue to work during the work stoppage, the number and names of
employees within each classification, and, for
public employers other than the Government of Saskatchewan, the essential services that are to be maintained.
The PSESA was a controversial piece of legislation that, among other things, broadened the categories of
public services defined as «essential», provided the employer with unilateral
authority to determine which
employees provided essential services, and prohibited
employees providing those services from striking.
(a) A state or local governmental entity may not suspend or terminate the employment of, or take other adverse personnel action against, a
public employee who in good faith reports a violation of law by the employing governmental entity or another
public employee to an appropriate law enforcement
authority.
Oftentimes,
public employees are hesitant to report behavior or occurrences of the
public employing entity to an appropriate law enforcement
authorities.
Obtaining urgent injunctive relief, for example in relation to
employee fraud and making applications for judicial review against
public authorities and central government
In Canadian Union of
Public Employees, Local 1716 v. British Columbia Assessment
Authority, the union filed a policy grievance after a new management policy was put in place in the Kelowna office of the British Columbia Assessment
Authority (the «BCAA»).
Health oversight agency means an agency or
authority of the United States, a State, a territory, a political subdivision of a State or territory, or an Indian tribe, or a person or entity acting under a grant of
authority from or contract with such
public agency, including the
employees or agents of such
public agency or its contractors or persons or entities to whom it has granted
authority, that is authorized by law to oversee the health care system (whether
public or private) or government programs in which health information is necessary to determine eligibility or compliance, or to enforce civil rights laws for which health information is relevant.
Therefore, the final rule defines this term as an agency or
authority of the United States, a state, a territory, a political subdivision of a state or territory, or an Indian tribe, or a person or entity acting under a grant of
authority from or contract with such
public agency, including the
employees or agents of such
public agency or its contractors or persons or entities to whom it has granted
authority, that is responsible for
public health matters as part of its official mandate.
Public health authority means an agency or authority of the United States, a State, a territory, a political subdivision of a State or territory, or an Indian tribe, or a person or entity acting under a grant of authority from or contract with such public agency, including the employees or agents of such public agency or its contractors or persons or entities to whom it has granted authority, that is responsible for public health matters as part of its official ma
Public health
authority means an agency or
authority of the United States, a State, a territory, a political subdivision of a State or territory, or an Indian tribe, or a person or entity acting under a grant of
authority from or contract with such
public agency, including the employees or agents of such public agency or its contractors or persons or entities to whom it has granted authority, that is responsible for public health matters as part of its official ma
public agency, including the
employees or agents of such
public agency or its contractors or persons or entities to whom it has granted authority, that is responsible for public health matters as part of its official ma
public agency or its contractors or persons or entities to whom it has granted
authority, that is responsible for
public health matters as part of its official ma
public health matters as part of its official mandate.
The proposed rule would have defined «health oversight agency» as «an agency, person, or entity, including the
employees or agents thereof, (1) That is: (i) A
public agency; or (ii) A person or entity acting under grant of
authority from or contract with a
public agency; and (2) Which performs or oversees the performance of any audit; investigation; inspection; licensure or discipline; civil, criminal, or administrative proceeding or action; or other activity necessary for appropriate oversight of the health care system, of government benefit programs for which health information is relevant to beneficiary eligibility, or of government regulatory programs for which health information is necessary for determining compliance with program standards.»
While the case is perhaps most notable for a sustained blast by Sedley LJ against the injustice he sees as having been done to her by the previous health secretary who stepped in to stop the trust making the severance payment it had agreed, the principal judgment on the substance of the case was by Laws LJ who accepted that payments by
public authorities to their
employees can be challenged under administrative law principles, but obviously found it in general invidious if an
authority is using such principles to try to avoid a contractual agreement made by itself.
Well,
public information officer cover letters are the best avenues that you can use to get the point across to a hiring
authority that you will make a great
employee.