New York Governor Kathy Hochul recently signed into law the Retail Worker Safety Act, which is intended to increase retail worker safety and has significant implications for New York retail employers....more
Despite the rapid rise in the use of artificial intelligence (AI) in the workplace, legislation regulating employers’ use of AI remains sparse. Until recently, only New York City and Colorado had passed laws governing an...more
Vermont Governor Philip Scott on June 4, 2024 signed into law H.704, a pay transparency requirement mandating employers with five or more employees to include wage ranges in job advertisements, effective July 1, 2025. The...more
Minnesota Governor Tim Walz recently signed into law a pay transparency requirement that will require employers with 30 or more employees in Minnesota to provide wage ranges on job postings beginning January 1, 2025....more
The State of New York on April 20, 2024 enacted its budget for fiscal year 2025 (FY 2025). The budget introduces two significant obligations for employers related to paid leave, which will require them to provide employees...more
Maryland Governor Wes Moore signed a pay transparency requirement into law on April 25, 2024, requiring that all employers in Maryland include wage ranges and benefit information in all job postings....more
The New York State Department of Labor (NY DOL) has issued proposed regulations and guidance to convey information on the state’s new salary disclosure law, effective as of September 17, 2023, and its key compliance areas,...more
Hawaii Governor Josh Green recently signed into law a requirement that employers in Hawaii include in job listings information on the expected hourly rate or salary range for positions. The July 3, 2023 law is an amendment to...more
At the conclusion of the 2023 New York legislative session, the New York State Senate and Assembly passed a bill that, if signed by New York Governor Kathy Hochul, will prohibit employers from entering agreements that...more
New York Governor Kathy Hochul recently signed legislation amending the state’s recently enacted salary transparency law (the Salary Transparency Law) requiring the disclosure of compensation ranges in job advertisements. As...more
The New York City Department of Consumer and Worker Protection (DCWP) issued a Final Rule implementing New York City Local Law 144 (the AI Law) and announced July 5, 2023 as the new effective date for implementation and...more
New York Governor Kathy Hochul has signed a law amending and delaying the effective date of the recently enacted Warehouse Worker Protection Act from February 2023 to June 2023. The act creates new regulations on the working...more
The four new laws and one that is expected soon to be signed by the governor are consistent with the rapid expansion of employee protections in New York....more
Wage transparency laws—quickly cropping up across more US state and local jurisdictions—govern employers’ requirements to disclose pay ranges to job applicants or potential applicants in job advertisements. Varying in scope,...more
New York State Governor Kathy Hochul announced on September 6, 2021 that the New York State Department of Health designated COVID-19 a highly contagious communicable disease that presents a serious risk of harm to public...more
Effective July 29, 2021, revisions to the New York City Fair Chance Act (FCA) will impose new requirements on New York City employers who evaluate criminal history information, including pending criminal charges, when making...more
New York Governor Andrew Cuomo signed the New York Health and Essential Rights Act (the HERO Act) into law on May 5, 2021, requiring the New York State Department of Labor and New York State Department of Health to create...more
New York State and New York City have recently issued guidance and documentation on the New York State Paid Sick Leave Law (the State Sick Leave Law) and amended New York City Earned Safe and Sick Time Act (the NYC Sick Leave...more
11/23/2020
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Guidance issued by New York state on April 8 clarifies that the state COVID-19 law did not create any new entitlement for employees of large employers to use Paid Family Leave during coronavirus (COVID-19) quarantines....more
New York Governor Andrew Cuomo signed legislation on April 3 creating a statewide paid sick leave requirement (the Paid Sick Leave Law), which allows employees to use accrued leave beginning January 1, 2021, and will require...more
Guidance issued by New York state clarifies employers’ questions on a recent law that provides sick leave benefits to some employees affected by the coronavirus (COVID-19) crisis. New York state has released new guidance[1]...more
In addition to the federal government action to provide paid leave to workers impacted by the coronavirus (COVID-19) outbreak, numerous states and local governments have proposed, and in a few cases enacted, additional leave...more
In what has become a trend over the last few years, Governor Cuomo included multiple labor and employment law proposals in the budget that, if approved, would create significant new responsibilities for New York employers,...more
1/28/2020
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Earned Sick Time ,
Freelance Workers ,
Gig Economy ,
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A New York State law, effective as of November 8, prohibits employers from discriminating or retaliating against employees based on an “employee’s or a dependent’s reproductive health decision making,” including, but not...more
New lactation laws in New York City, effective March 18, 2019, describe minimum requirements for lactation rooms, mandate that employers develop a written lactation room policy and provide notice of this policy to all...more