NYC Office of Trials and Hearings, OATH Index No. 486/18
The Appointing Authority served disciplinary charges against an employee alleged the employee, a service aide:
1) made disrespectful comments to her supervisor;
2) announced that there was going to be a fight and instigated a verbal altercation with a co-worker;
3) used profanity while snatching a meal tray from a patient; and
4) took a meal tray from a patient before he had finished eating and rudely commented to the patient that he was inadvertently exposed.
After a three-day trial, OATH Administrative Law Judge Joycelyn McGeachy-Kuls found that Appointing Authority had proven the charged misconduct.
Taking into consideration service aide's history of misconduct, the disruption that she caused in the workplace and her inappropriate treatment of patients, Judge McGreach-Kuls recommended that the aide be termination from her position.
The Appointing Authority adopted the ALJ's findings and recommendation and terminate the service aide from her position.
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