NYCHA Employee Dismissed for Violence in the Workplace

May 31, 2008

LVT Number: #20464

After holding a hearing, NYCHA terminated a worker's employment because the worker violated NYCHA's policy against violence in the workplace. The employee appealed and lost. NYCHA's ruling was based on substantial evidence. There were 911 recordings documenting the employee's actions. These were properly admitted as evidence because they weren't official records relating to the employee's arrest or prosecution. And even if the 911 records should have been sealed, there was other proof that the employee violated NYCHA's policy.

After holding a hearing, NYCHA terminated a worker's employment because the worker violated NYCHA's policy against violence in the workplace. The employee appealed and lost. NYCHA's ruling was based on substantial evidence. There were 911 recordings documenting the employee's actions. These were properly admitted as evidence because they weren't official records relating to the employee's arrest or prosecution. And even if the 911 records should have been sealed, there was other proof that the employee violated NYCHA's policy.

Dockery v. NYCHA: NYLJ, 5/29/08, p. 34, col. 2 (App. Div. 1 Dept.; Andrias, JP, Saxe, Sweeny, Moskowitz, DeGrasse, JJ)

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