The United Federation of Teachers has sued the city Law Department seeking to strike down a policy it claimed “traps” employees by requiring them to waive attorney-client confidentiality in order to receive legal representation.
The policy puts Teachers and other education staff undergoing disciplinary hearings “between the proverbial rock and a hard place” because it allows the Law Department to inform the employee's agency if facts from the case suggested that he or she violated an agency rule, the union argued.
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