Powe v. County of Albany, Department of Employment & Training

Proceeding initiated in this court pursuant to Executive Law § 298 to review a determination of the State Division of Human Rights, dated May 20,1983, which dismissed petitioner’s complaint of an unlawful discriminatory practice based on race and color.

Petitioner was employed on June 9, 1978 as a planner by respondent, a facet of the Federally funded CETA program. He subsequently received promotions and raises. However, on September 30, 1980, he was one of 15 employees discharged by *998respondent as the result of a severe reduction in Federal funding, occasioned by the government’s plan to…