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The federal government has announced the new salary requirements for employees to be exempt from overtime pay under federal law.  The new...

Historically, gig workers (think Uber drivers, InstaCart, Doordash) have been classified as independent contractors, allowing companies t...

The New York State Department of Financial Services (“DFS”) Superintendent revealed the new Paid Family Leave (“PFL”) benefit and employe...

Under the federal Fair Labor Standards Act, employers who agree with employees who work a fluctuating number of hours each week to pay th...

On June 25, we wrote about new anti-harassment legislation that we expected Governor Cuomo to sign into law.  On August 12, he did, in fa...

Continuing with its’ busy employment legislation season, New York has amended the Human Rights Law to prohibit discrimination based on re...

The recent sad and tragic accident involving a young boy’s death at an outdoor grease trap at a local coffee shop brings to mind the duties

Department of Labor Secretary Alex Acosta recently stepped down from the position, and President Trump has named Eugene Scalia as his repl..

Both the New York State Human Rights Law and Dignity for All Students Act were expanded last Friday to ban race discrimination based on ....

New York State Governor Cuomo is expected to sign a bill granting employees and former employees the power to lien real and personal prop...

The NYS Legislature recently approved changes to the state’s discrimination and harassment laws. Governor Cuomo has indicated that he int...

The determination of the regular rate of pay for employees who are non-exempt under the Fair Labor Standards Act (“FLSA”) and, therefore,...

As part of the New York fiscal year 2020 budget announced April 1, 2019, Election Law Section 3-110 was immediately amended to allow work...

Last week the Supreme Court accepted three cases that ask whether federal anti-discrimination laws protect LGBT people from job discrimin...

In 2018, fewer discrimination charges were filed with the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission than in any other year in the last deca...

The trend to legalize marijuana continues.  Governor Andrew Cuomo recently announced his intention for New York to be one of the next sta...

This question and answer was printed in a Monroe County Medical Society 2019 Bulletin. This relatively short question implicates many emp...

The third opinion letter issued by the US Department of Labor on March 14 addressed a New York law that contradicted federal overtime law...

Another notable opinion from the U.S. Department of Labor letters issued on March 14 is that workers are not required to be paid for comm...

Yesterday, the U.S. Department of Labor (DOL) issued three opinion letters. This is the first of a series of blog posts addressing the le...