Transport Workers Union Local 100 filed suit Aug. 9 seeking back pay for a Bus Operator who was fired after he was assaulted on the job and remained on disability for two years—though the Metropolitan Transportation Authority scoffed at his claim, saying it “has a demonstrable ring of emptiness to it.”
Under civil-service law, employees who’ve been injured and unable to work for a year can be terminated; a provision in the Local 100 contract gives Bus Operators assaulted on the job an additional year.
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