Austin who has been photographed with President Donald Trump, Vice President JD Vance, and Secretary of Health Robert F. Kennedy Jr. in the White House Oval Office also urged Republican New Yorkers to back Cuomo as an independent instead of Republican nominee Curtis Sliwa, arguing Sliwa was not capable of defeating Mamdani in the race.
A demolition company has agreed to pay $1.5 million to settle claims that it repeatedly flouted New York's workers' compensation laws, retaliated against injured workers and failed to address reports of sexual harassment. Alba Services, a nonunion demolition subcontractor, must pay $1.4 million to nearly 700 current and former employees, as well as $100,000 to a settlement administrator who will coordinate those payments to employees, New York Attorney General Letitia James announced Tuesday.
A former Orange County prosecutor alleges she was sexually harassed by a supervisor and retaliated against by superiors during her time at the Orange County district attorney's office, according to a recently filed lawsuit. The legal action, filed last week in Orange County Superior Court, is the latest in a series of workplace lawsuits filed against Dist. Atty. Todd Spitzer and his office, some of which have already been settled for millions of dollars and resulted in court rulings against Spitzer and his staff.
The lawsuit alleges that the woman sought to extort money from John Gomez and was involved in a plot to damage his reputation through coordinated efforts with multiple attorneys.
I also did journaling for each of the characters in this book. This was a process because I was creating three first-person perspectives of girls in similar demographics from the same place, going through very similar experiences. But each of them has a different perspective and a different kind of foundational sense of the world that changes the way that she interacts with pregnancy, with parenthood, with life. And I wanted us to understand that there are a lot of ways to be a good mother and that teen parenthood isn't monolithic and it doesn't look just one way, and that it exists across race, and across class, and across geography, and that we see a lot of different examples and representations of the way that these girls handle themselves and their lives and their friendships.
The Bectu union has received multiple complaints regarding Wallace’s conduct, including allegations of inappropriate behavior towards young female freelancers, emphasizing their vulnerability in coming forward.
The number of prison staff being investigated for sexual assault or harassment has surged almost 400 per cent over recent years, revealing a serious issue within the prison system.
