The Public Employees Federation is suing the state and several of its agencies alleging that they have failed to adhere to regulations that call for them to pay employees who followed quarantine mandates imposed early in the pandemic.
The suit, filed Jan. 15 in State Supreme Court in Albany, asserts that the state, the Department of Civil Service, the Department of Corrections and Community Supervision and the Office of Mental Health “irrationally and improperly deprived union members of their guaranteed rights to paid COVID-19 quarantine leave,” according to a statement from the federation.
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