Professor M. Stanley Whittingham joins other SUNY faculty members who have been awarded the Nobel Prize

On October 9, 2019 New York's Governor Andrew M. Cuomo congratulated SUNY at Binghamton Distinguished Professor M. Stanley Whittingham upon his receiving the 2019 Nobel Prize in Chemistry.

Professor Whittingham won the prize for his work leading to the development of the lithium-ion battery together with John B. Goodenough, Virginia H. Cockrell Centennial Chair in Engineering at the University of Texas at Austin and Akira Yoshino, an honorary fellow for the Asahi Kasei Corporation in Tokyo and a professor at Meijo University in Nagoya, Japan.

The Governor said "Professor Whittingham's work has far-reaching applications, including helping New York reach our goals to reduce carbon emissions and achieve 100 percent zero carbon electricity by 2040."

The names and vita of other SUNY faculty Nobel Laureates are posted on the Internet at https://www.rfsuny.org/rf-news/nobel-laureates/

Hearing officer recommends the dismissal of a food service manager found guilty of failure to properly supervise subordinates and other misconduct

A school food service manager was charged with failure to supervise her staff to ensure that potentially unsafe food was not served to students, and failure to ensure that kitchen equipment was clean and in working condition.

Supervisors on several occasions attempted to help the manager remedy these issues, but she continued to perform unsatisfactorily.

New York City Office of Administrative Tribunals and Hearings Administrative Law Judge Joycelyn McGeachy-Kuls found that the manager failed to take responsibility for exposing students to recalled food and failed to take responsibility for the condition of the school kitchens.

Given the seriousness and persistence of the conduct, Judeg McGeachy-Kuls recommended the manger be terminated.

The decision is posted on the Internet at:

http://archive.citylaw.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/17/oath/19_cases/19-494.pdf

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Providing disabled individuals access to the Internet

In Robles v. Domino Pizza, 913 F. 3d 898,*  the United States Court of Appeals held  that Title III of the American With Disabilities Act applies to websites maintained by entities having a physical place of public accommodation.

The United States Supreme Court [Docket 18-1539] denied Domino Pizza's motion for certiorari suggesting that the case will be returned to the District Court for a trial on the merits.

Many disability rights advocates view the Supreme Court's decision as signaling the importance of Internet sites established by governmental entities as well as entities in the private sector providing appropriate accommodations for disabled users even in the absence of guidelines having for this purpose been established by the United States Department of Justice or by Congress.

* The Robles decision is posted on the Internet at:
http://cdn.ca9.uscourts.gov/datastore/opinions/2019/01/15/17-55504.pdf

Do you employ temporary personnel to serve as election workers?

Each election year, thousands of state and local government entities hire workers to conduct primary and general elections. Compensation paid to election workers is income and may be subject to income tax and FICA taxes as well as reporting requirements.

IRS's booklet Election Workers: Reporting and Withholding will help employers  understand their unique reporting and withholding requirements and which election workers may be covered by a Section 218 Agreement.

The IRS will issue a CP2100 or CP2100A Notice if the payee’s name and Taxpayer Identification Number (TIN) on the information return filed does not match IRS records.

This notice informs payers they may be responsible for beginning backup withholding, if they haven’t already done so. Publication 1281, Backup Withholding on Missing and Incorrect Name/TIN(s) (PDF), contains all the information payers need to comply with backup withholding requirements.

Additional resources that may help employers avoid receiving a CP2100 include the following:

About General Instructions for Certain Information Returns helps you file correct Forms 1099

W-9 Saves Time and Money discusses the benefits of securing Form W-9 from service vendors

TIN Matching Video explains the free Taxpayer Identification Number (TIN) On-Line Matching program offered by the IRS

Social Security Number Verification Service

What you need to know about Backup Withholding