Nine freshly-minted Port Authority Police officers are being fired and three supervisors disciplined following a rowdy celebration at a Hoboken bar after graduation from the police academy, the agency announced today. The Aug. 22 incident has also prompted the Port Authority to re-evaluate candidate screening and other practices at the Port Authority Police Academy, the […]
Working an irregular shift pattern may be causing long-term damage to people’s memory and mental abilities, new research has shown. Shift work can disrupt the body’s internal clock in a similar way to jet lag, and has been linked before to an increased risk of health problems such as heart problems and even some cancers. […]
After nearly two months of debate among its rank and file, the California’s state firefighters’ union says its members have agreed to a raise that falls far short of what similar jobs pay elsewhere. A little more than 70 percent of voting members among the 6,000-employee union ratified the agreement. The deal blesses last summer’s […]
