54 A.D.2d 645 | N.Y. App. Div. | 1976
Order, New York State Human Rights Appeal Board, entered January 16, 1976, affirming order of New York State Division of Human Rights, entered July 2, 1975, dismissing petitioner’s complaint as time-barred, unanimously annulled in the interest of justice, the complaint reinstated, and the proceeding remanded to the Division of Human Rights for investigatory hearing, as herein set forth, without costs and without disbursements. In December, 1973 petitioner’s employment was terminated in the course of claimed reorganization of his employer’s staff; his complaint, made in person in May, 1974 at the office of the division to one Beebe of the division’s staff, was that he had been discriminated against by reason of race, age, and sex. Expressing concern as to timeliness of his complaint— subdivision 5 of section 297 of the Executive Law sets forth a limitation of one year—he was assured by Beebe that his complaint was timely and the complaint would be deemed filed as of the time of visit, but that he should follow it up by specific charges. He sent a letter within a few days which