Novak v. St. Luke's-Roosevelt Hospital Center, Inc.

Order and judgment (one paper), Supreme Court, New York County (Louis B. York, J.), entered March 11, 2014, which granted defendants’ motion for summary judgment dismissing plaintiff’s Labor Law § 741 claim, her sole remaining cause of action, and dismissed the action, unanimously affirmed, without costs.

Plaintiff alleges that defendants had retaliated against her for lodging a complaint with defendant supervisors regarding the treatment of a patient. After plaintiff abandoned her post while on duty in the emergency room of defendant hospital, plaintiff’s employment was terminated. After a…