New York City employers should review their handbooks and employment agreements to ensure they comply with a new law that took effect May 11. Lawmakers recently amended the New York City Human Rights Law (NYCHRL) to prohibit...more
Colorado and Washington will likely become the latest states to ban employers from holding mandatory meetings with employees concerning religious or political matters. Such employer-sponsored meetings, known as “captive...more
New York City officials just published the much-anticipated Workers’ Bill of Rights – and NYC businesses must provide a copy to current employees by July 1. You’ll also need to start providing it to any subsequent new hires....more
Continuing a years’ long trend of extensive alterations to workplace laws, New York State and New York City continued to enact new workplace legislation impacting employers. A substantial number of enacted bills in the past...more
1/11/2024
/ Employee Benefits ,
Employer Liability Issues ,
Employment Policies ,
Freelance Workers ,
Minimum Wage ,
New York ,
Pay Transparency ,
State Labor Laws ,
Tip Credit ,
Wage and Hour ,
Wage Theft ,
Workplace Safety
A recently signed state law will soon protect New York freelance and contract workers from wage theft and delayed payments – and require businesses to put certain terms in writing. Businesses across the state will need to...more
Effective August 1, Minnesota now prohibits employers from “captive audience meetings” – that is, requiring, under threat of discharge, discipline, or some other penalty, employee attendance or participation in...more
Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg Jr. recently announced a new prosecutorial branch tasked with investigating and prosecuting wage theft and other forms of worker harassment and exploitation throughout the borough. The...more
New York City employers should breathe a sigh of relief as the City recently issued rules to clarify a groundbreaking law about to go into effect aimed at protecting employees from unlawful discrimination when artificial...more
Cryptocurrency and the gig economy are a natural fit, and as companies grow faster and expand both nationally and globally, there is a crypto option that is becoming increasingly attractive to both gig economy businesses and...more
As the New York State legislative session came to a close, state lawmakers passed a flurry of laws providing protections to workers, ranging from wage protections for freelance workers, prohibitions against absence control...more
6/10/2022
/ Anti-Retaliation Provisions ,
Corporate Counsel ,
Employer Liability Issues ,
Employment Contract ,
Employment Policies ,
Freelance Workers ,
Health and Essential Rights (HERO) Act ,
Hiring & Firing ,
Independent Contractors ,
Leave of Absence ,
New Legislation ,
Nurses ,
Over-Time ,
Recordkeeping Requirements ,
State Labor Laws ,
Wage and Hour ,
Wage Theft ,
Warehouses ,
Workplace Safety
A federal judge in New York recently held that workers cannot assert claims for violations of New York’s Wage Theft Prevention Act (WTPA) in federal court – a ruling that further helps employers defend against these...more
5/3/2022
/ Article III ,
Class Action ,
Damages ,
Employer Liability Issues ,
Employment Litigation ,
Labor Law Violations ,
Putative Class Actions ,
Standing ,
Wage and Hour ,
Wage Statements ,
Wage Theft Prevention Act