Rodriguez v. City of Yonkers

In a proceeding pursuant to CPLR article 78 to review a determination of the respondent City of Yonkers terminating the petitioner’s employment as an environmental maintenance worker due to excessive absences, effective March 16, 1999, the petitioner appeals from a judgment of the Supreme Court, Westchester County (Fredman, J.), entered June 6, 2000, which denied the petition and dismissed the proceeding as time-barred.

Ordered that the judgment is affirmed, with costs.

“[T]he gravamen of the [petitioner’s] claim, that he was fired by the city without notice of the charges, a hearing, or other…