ARTICLES & POSTS

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...

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...

Good news!  On 2/27/19, the New York State Department of Labor issued a statement that it would not pursue implementing the proposed call...

Another recent NLRB decision narrows the standard for what constitutes protected activity. In that case, a manager asked a group of airpo...

On January 15, 2019, the New York Legislature passed a bill that protects transgender people from discrimination and adds gender identity...

As the government shutdown persists, private employers continue to be affected.  As we discussed earlier this month, E-Verify remains shu...

Employers who use E-Verify to comply with their I-9 obligations have not had access to the system since December 22, 2018.  Crucially, ho...

Governor Cuomo vetoed the bill we described in our last post that would have added bereavement leave to the list of acceptable reasons to...

We all remember the planned 2016 changes to federal overtime laws.  Employers put a lot of time into ensuring they were prepared and thei...

This year, Governor Cuomo signed a law making changes to the Taylor Law to strengthen public unions.  The Taylor Law, officially the Publ...

The Supreme Court recently handed down some significant decisions in the labor and employment field. These decisions represent a trend of...

The NYS Legislature has passed a bill which would add bereavement leave to the list of permissible reasons to take paid family leave.  Th...

As New York State employers continue to manage their first year of paid family leave (PFL) benefits available to employees in 2018 (8 wee...

On February 26, 2018, the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit overruled its own precedent and became only the second Co...

Recently, we’ve been warning employers that in order to have a legally compliant unpaid internship available, certain specific conditions...

Employment laws might get tougher for employers in businesses that call workers in at the last minute. Around the holidays, it is especia...