State employees who were members of the New York State Fire Task Force that responded on 9/11 and are now battling World Trade Center-related diseases, were denied unlimited sick time, despite a year-old law intended to cover them, according to State Sen. Martin Golden, the law’s prime sponsor.
At a Sept. 17 hearing of the Senate Committee on Pensions and the Civil Service, two current employees and one recently retired one testified that even though they have been ordered to respond, they were denied the unlimited-sick-time benefit by the state Department of Civil Service on the grounds that they were volunteers at the time of their 9/11 response. They all subsequently became state employees.
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