Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York November 23, 2011 (Cunningham v. New York State Department of Labor)

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Lahtinen, J.

Petitioner, a state employee since 1980, was respondent’s *1348Director of Staff and Organizational Development for nearly 20 years. In the last 10 years, he had been disciplined on several occasions for various workplace misconduct.