Dec 11, 2020

Finding a reasonable relationship between the subject matter of a grievance and certain provisions set out in a collective bargaining agreement is often the key to submitting the dispute to arbitration

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The Yonkers City School District School Board [Board] and the Yonkers Federation of Teachers [YFT] were parties to a collective bargaining...
Dec 10, 2020

Court's decision demonstrates why lawyers should encrypt e-communications

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A court decision illustrating why lawyers [and others] should encrypt e-communications has been posted by N icole Black , a Rochester , New ...

The courts will not vacate an administrative decision unless the record shows that the decision was arbitrary, unreasonable, irrational or indicative of bad faith

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The genesis of this CPLR Article 78 action was a school board's [Board] decision to decommission 20 school buses and to privatize portio...
Dec 9, 2020

An appointing authority's refusal to participate does not prevent the hearing officer or arbitrator from holding the hearing in absentia and issuing a decision

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The New York State Department of Corrections and Community Supervision [DOC] served a notice of discipline on an employee [Individual] setti...
Dec 8, 2020

The exhaustion of administrative remedies is a prerequisite to initiating a judicial challenge to a final administrative decision

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Petitioner [Facility] in this CPLR Article 78 action to review a determination by the New York State Department of Health's Office of th...