Full List of Eligible Workplaces and Workers Health care and long-term careEligible workplaces Acute hospitalsLong-term care homes (including private, municipal and not-for-profit homes)Licensed retirement homesHome and community careEligible workers Personal support workersRegistered nursesRegistered practical nursesNurse practitionersAttendant care workersAuxiliary staff, including: Porters, cook, custodian, housekeeping, laundry facilities and other key… [read post]

CAUTION: These WCAB panel decisions have not been designated a “significant panel decision” by the Workers’ Compensation Appeals Board. [read post]

Gorsuch joined the majority opinion that ruled against the worker, as well as a concurrence that elaborated on the reasons for rejecting the demand-for-documentation claim. [read post]

A public officer may be removed from his or her office pursuant to Public Officers Law §36 Abolishing a position in the public service and the Doctrine of Legislative Equivalency Abolition of positions and the assignment of former teaching duties to other teachers Absence of any reference to the benefit claimed in the collective bargaining agreement defeats the employee organization's breach of contract allegation Absence of the individual who rated the employee unsatisfactory from the… [read post]

CORRECTIONS · HB 1546 – Requires the Department of Corrections to create an “Orange Alert” system to notify any resident within a 40-mile radius of a prison, when an inmate has escaped. [read post]