NYC Hospital Lands Early Win on Some of Ex-Worker’s Bias Claims

New York’s Staten Island University Hospital is free of a former emergency technician’s retaliation, leave interference, and union-related claims after a federal judge said she lacked evidence to pursue them.

The record doesn’t show that the worker engaged in protected activity before SIUH fired her, and she didn’t seek time off pursuant to the Family and Medical Leave Act in that period, the US District Court for the Eastern District of New York said. She also failed to provide evidence that her union failed to fairly represent her because of a disability.

However, the evidence surrounding plaintiff Adelaida Martinez’s ...