![]() Kavanagh allegedly used the same ageist tactics against former FDNY Chief of Department James Leonard, who she was butting heads with when she was made first deputy commissioner, the lawsuit states. “While it is natural for a new leader - male or female - to introduce new ideas and innovation to improve an organization, Kavanagh’s actions were bereft of any substance and merely intended to humiliate her older subordinates,” the lawsuit states. In his lawsuit, Walden claims “demanding undefined and unquantified ‘out-of-the-box thinking,’ ‘fresh ideas,’ and decrying ‘old thinking'” were “all classic hallmarks of ageist language.” 3 when the three men were demoted and the commissioner had a tense meeting with them, where she demanded “innovative, outside-the-box thinking” from them. The division between Kavanagh and her staff chiefs began on Feb. The chiefs have repeatedly claimed that Kavanagh makes all her decisions with a small circle of aides - which includes Augier and an NYPD lieutenant now assigned to the FDNY - and that she ignores their years of experience. There had also been complaints about the chiefs’ “tough management style” but Walden said none of them have “any disciplinary record or substantiated EEO claims against them.” The lawsuit claims Kavanagh “never identified a single order of hers that (the chiefs) defied nor were any staff chiefs disciplined for any such defiance (since there was none.)” “When these methods failed (Kavanagh’s) intended result - bullying seniors into retirement - she resorted to more brutal means, such as demotions, humiliating reassignments, and public disparagement,” the lawsuit states.įDNY sources had repeatedly called the three demoted chiefs “bad apples” who had often disagreed with the new fire commissioner.
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