GIVENS v. NEW YORK CITY HOUS. AUTH.


249 A.D.2d 133 (1998)

671 N.Y.S.2d 479

Robert L. Givens et al., Appellants, v. New York City Housing Authority, Respondent, et al., Defendant

Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York, First Department.

April 21, 1998


The same public policy that prohibits discrimination in hiring on the basis of a criminal record (Correction Law §§ 752, 753) prohibits discrimination in terminating employment on the basis of a criminal record. We agree with the trial court that the three nonviolent convictions that the employee did not disclose in his employment application, in conjunction with the robbery conviction that the employee did disclose, did not, as a matter of law, give the Housing...

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