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  • A new bill would make it illegal for NYC bosses to contact employees after work hours

    03/24/2018 9:54:10 AM PDT · by Olog-hai · 41 replies
    Time Out New York ^ | Thursday March 22 2018, 2:07pm | Clayton Guse
    A City Council member wants to crack down on bosses who require their employees to maintain contact after hours, and his idea is picking up steam. Raphael Espinal, who represents the Brooklyn neighborhoods of Bushwick, Bronwsville, Cypress Hills and East New York, is set to introduce a bill in a City Council meeting on Thursday that establishes New Yorkers’ “right to disconnect.” The legislation would make it illegal for employers to require employees to access work-related electronic communication outside of their regular work period. If passed, the law would allow workers who are regularly bombarded by urgent, late-night emails from...
  • The Enemy at Their Back

    01/16/2003 10:51:48 AM PST · by Commander8 · 1 replies · 317+ views
    Review of The News ^ | January 19,2003 | William Norman Grigg
    An important but little-noticed Federal lawsuit is scheduled to go to court in February. Nearly six years four agents of the Pennsylvania Bureau of Narcotics Investigation(BNI) filed a civil rights complaint in the US DIstrict Court for the Middle District of Pennsylvania. The lawsuit alleged that "certain persons in the State Department and the CIA" had obstructed an investigation of the Dominican narcotics cartel, which controlledmuch of the trade in cocaine and heroin along the eastern seaboard. There is also evidence that the Dominican narcotics cartel may have indirectly financed the terrorist network that carried out the first World Trade...