November 19, 2024
Two union-represented emergency medical service workers with the New York City Fire Department missed their shot at promotions because they performed poorly during their interviews, not because the department discriminates against women, people of color and people with disabilities, the FDNY told a New York federal judge Tuesday.
November 23, 2022
A group of emergency medical service workers do not have enough in common to be certified as a class in their suit alleging New York City's fire department engaged in discrimination during promotions, a New York federal judge ruled, saying evidence doesn't show a pattern of bias.
June 07, 2021
A union for emergency medical service workers repeated its call Monday for a magistrate judge to recuse herself from its suit accusing the New York City Fire Department of race and gender bias, saying her past representation of the city in court could call her impartiality into question.
June 03, 2021
An emergency medical service workers union can't block New York City from including evidence challenging its bid to proceed as three classes in a suit accusing the city's fire department of race and gender bias, a federal magistrate judge said.
March 15, 2021
Emergency medical service workers should not be able to proceed as three classes in their suit accusing New York City's fire department of passing over women and minority firefighters for promotions, the city told a federal judge Monday.
January 19, 2021
Emergency medical service workers have urged a New York federal judge to certify several classes in their suit accusing New York City's fire department of passing over women and minority firefighters for promotions, arguing certification makes the most sense for the case.
January 15, 2021
A New York magistrate judge has refused to sanction the Big Apple in a union's proposed class action accusing the city's fire department of passing over women and minority firefighters for promotions, ruling that the city didn't violate any court orders nor did it keep evidence under wraps.
May 21, 2018
The New York City Fire Department unfairly denies officer jobs to nonwhite and female emergency medical services workers through a "highly subjective" promotional process that leaves decisions up to their mostly white and male superiors, an emergency medical services union alleges in a proposed class action filed Monday in New York federal court.