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Looking beyond the current Coronavirus crisis for a minute, several provisions of the Fiscal Year 2020-2021 New York State Budget propose...

This post is a further update to our earlier post: Guidance Issued for Employer Relief Offered by the Families First Coronavirus Response...

In our earlier post: Gov. Cuomo Requires Non-Essential Businesses to Reduce In-Person Workforce by 100% we provided the list of businesse...

The Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security Act or “CARES Act” passed the House of Representatives today and President Trump has i...

In addition to Jennifer Shoemaker, this post was authored with input from Paul Keneally and Alina Nadir. Yesterday, the US Department of ...

As we’ve seen over the past week, many local governments are enacting social distancing measures in an attempt to slow the spread of the ...

New York State Leave Law New York has enacted a Paid Sick Leave law guaranteeing job protection and providing paid sick leave to employee...

In the early hours of Saturday morning the House of Representatives passed an emergency spending bill supported by President Trump addres...

Legislators have for many years sought to strengthen state and federal laws in order to prevent employers from engaging in gender discrim...

On January 31, 2020, the US government released an updated I-9 form. While employers are permitted to use the previous version until Apr...

Similar to the last several years, Governor Cuomo’s 2021 budget proposal includes several employment law proposals that would place addit...

In a move that many employer groups had lobbied for, the United States Department of Labor (“DOL”) issued a new final rule in January 202...

In August, we described the highlights of New York’s expanded harassment laws. The law changing the standard for legally actionable hara...

Effective February 10, 2020, the ten members with the largest percentage ownership interest of an out of state LLC can be held personally...

With the turn of the calendar to 2020, New York employers are now specifically prohibited from a various activity related to prospective ...

Last week, the United States Department of Labor issued its final rule allowing businesses to leave several “perks” out of the formula th...

There is no generally affirmative duty under New York law to disclose or not disclose information about disciplinary action against emplo...

If you have manual workers on your payroll, ensure they are all paid with the frequency required under the law. Section 191 of New York L...

A new Senate bill proposes removing the restriction on married co-workers’ ability to take time off to care for newborn or adopted childr...

The fluctuating workweek half-time overtime option has been available for many years under federal law as a way for employers to reduce their overtime costs ...