Richard Khavkine

3 weeks ago | thechiefleader.com | Richard Khavkine

Posted 6/6/25 Most municipal employees would be enrolled in a new, cost-saving health benefit plan city officials say would allow them to see more doctors, specialists and other clinicians than their current plans, Mayor Eric Adams and Labor Commissioner Renee Campion announced Monday.

4 weeks ago | thechiefleader.com | Richard Khavkine

Posted 6/6/25 Five area Amtrak employees who participated in a widespread multi-million-dollar scam to defraud the railroad’s health benefit plan have pleaded guilty to felony conspiracy counts that could each net them a decade behind bars, Department of Justice officials in New Jersey announced.

4 weeks ago | thechiefleader.com | Richard Khavkine

Posted 6/6/25 The president of the United Federation of Teachers, Michael Mulgrew, handily won a sixth consecutive three-year term as head of the 200,000-member union, this time beating two challengers. Mulgrew and the Unity Caucus candidates received 54 percent of the vote, while Amy Arundell, of the A Better Contract Caucus, polled 32 percent of ballots and Olivia Swisher, of ARISE Caucus, trailed in third with 14 percent, according to results posted on the UFT’s website.

1 month ago | thechiefleader.com | Richard Khavkine

Posted 5/30/25 As a funding shortfall threatens the federal program that provides treatment for tens of thousands of people affected by the September 11 attacks, dozens of state attorneys general last week urged Congress to ensure its continued viability.  Although the World Trade Center Health Program itself has been authorized by Congress through 2090, its funding is secured only through 2027.

1 month ago | thechiefleader.com | Richard Khavkine

Posted 5/30/25 Suffolk County will make significant infrastructure repairs to two jails, hire an environmental health professional and pay $18 million to current and former detainees and inmates, among other provisions, to settle a longstanding class-action suit that called out deplorable conditions at the correctional facilities, according to a preliminary settlement.