Employers experience the highest volume of harassment complaints during the spring and summer months, based upon filing information distributed by the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission. For this reason, this is a good time for you to create, re-examine and, if necessary, revise your anti-harassment policies....
The 2014-2015 New York State Budget was passed on March 31, 2014. The Budget includes, among other things, legislation creating Education Law Section 2-d which protects the privacy of personally identifiable information and creates a parents bill of rights regarding the privacy and security of...
The State Court of Appeals recently upheld the New York State Public Employment Relation Board’s (“PERB”) decision that the Town of Islip violated the Taylor Law when it unilaterally discontinued the practice of permanently assigning Town-owned vehicles to certain employees and permitting those employees to...
A Nassau County Supreme Court judge recently issued the first major decision regarding the scope of the Dignity for All Students Act (“DASA”). In J.G.S., et al. v. Bellmore-Merrick Cent. High Sch. Dist., et al., the trial court concluded, in resolving the District’s pre-answer motion...
With school district reorganization meetings right around the corner, we write to provide guidance regarding the appointment of Audit Committee members....
KEEPING YOU INFORMED… On May 8, 2014, the United States Departments of Justice and Education issued a joint “Dear Colleague” letter along with a new Fact Sheet regarding the denial of enrollment to students because of their or their parents’ immigration status. The new joint guidance...
In anticipation of the upcoming Budget Vote and Board of Education Election, we wanted to address two sensitive and important issues....
KEEPING YOU INFORMED… The “Real Property Tax Freeze Credit,” a new tax credit available to eligible taxpayers residing in a municipality that adopts a “freeze-compliant budget,” was adopted as part of the 2014-2015 State Budget. Residents will be eligible to receive this tax credit in the...
The New York State Workplace Violence Prevention Act, enacted in 2006, requires public employers with at least 20 full-time permanent employees to develop and implement a written Workplace Violence Prevention Program, evaluate their workplaces to assess the risk of violence, and implement an annual training...
A recent decision of the Nassau County Supreme Court serves as an important reminder that school districts and BOCES must take into account the Annual Professional Performance Reviews (“APPR”) of their teachers and principals when making employment decisions. In Evans v. Board of Education...
