Man sues after allegedly being demoted for singing on the job
A Department of Transportation worker who says he was demoted for singing on the job is now suing the city.
Crooner Mariano Scotto’s bosses are continuing to punish the highway-transportation specialist by slashing his overtime even after an administrative law judge said he couldn’t be fired from his $112,000-a-year job for belting out tunes at work, he claims in the suit.
The 58-year-old Staten Island resident has been “singing on the job since he was hired” in 1985, his Manhattan Supreme Court suit says.
“He sings everything from the Beatles to show tunes,” his attorney, Leonard Shrier, told The Post.
“He sings because, a, he has a good voice, b, it relaxes him and c, the office has always enjoyed it,” Shrier said.
But under a new boss, who was hired in January 2017, he was told to zip it and later ordered to undergo a psych exam.
The doc said he wasn’t “fit for duty” but his own shrink countered that he was fine. So instead of firing him, the department has stripped him of thousands of dollars in overtime and took away his company car, the suit claims.
He’s suing for unspecified damages. The city Law Department is reviewing the case.​