Well over a year after Governor Cuomo signed legislation requiring state agencies, authorities and municipalities outside of New York City to honor sick-time requests by their employees fighting World Trade Center-related certified health ailments, the Metropolitan Transportation Authority is still not complying with the law, according to union officials.
“They seem to acknowledge the law happened but it’s just inertia in terms of them implementing it,” said Transport Workers Union Local 100 Vice President J.P. Patafio in a phone interview.
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