The Commission allowed the City of Chicopee’s motion to dismiss the appeal after concluding that the Commission had no jurisdiction over the matter of if and when vacation time should have been accrued to the Appellant.
The Commission upheld the ten-day suspension of Boston school custodian whose pattern of behavior over the past year included persistent attendance issues, performance shortcomings, and refusal to acknowledge his misconduct.
The Commission upheld the three-day suspension of a Haverhill police officer whose failure to physically check if a cell door was properly locked allowed a prisoner to leave his cell.
The Commission reduced the discharge of a Chicopee police sergeant to a demotion for untruthfulness during a previous incident that had resulted in a reprimand of incompetence, as his untruthfulness had been known for over six years and two other officers who engaged in the same misconduct had not been discharged.
The Commission affirmed the discharge of a Salem Police career officer who failed to comply with the conditions of a Last Chance Agreement where he’d agreed to accept an 18-month suspension in place of a discharge.
The Commission unanimously upheld the discharge of a Lawrence police officer who abandoned a service detail, took an unauthorized leave from duty for 5-days, and threatened a superior officer while later lying to the Chief of Police about those same threats.
The Commission dismissed the appeal of a Boston firefighter, who was discharged for making racist comments directed at a black colleague while he was drunk and off-duty. The Commission found that the Boston Fire Department had proven that the Appellant had not been denied a fair Section 41 hearing.
An employee of the Quincy Housing Authority with a record of aggressive and troublesome behavior toward supervisors was discharged after an unseemly altercation with the housing authority’s executive director. The commission found that the employee’s discharge was in accordance with progressive discipline principles.
