- Corporate officers and directors can be held personally liable for unpaid wages.
- As companies and their officers and directors make difficult decisions to address the impact of COVID-19 on their workforce, they...more
- The President signed the FFCRA into law on March 18, 2020. The Act will go into effect “not later than 15 days after the date of enactment” (i.e., no later than April 2, 2020). Most employers with 500 or fewer employees are...more
3/25/2020
/ Coronavirus/COVID-19 ,
Employee Benefits ,
Employer Liability Issues ,
Families First Coronavirus Response Act (FFCRA) ,
Federal Labor Laws ,
New Legislation ,
Paid Leave ,
Paid Sick Leave Act ,
Sick Leave ,
State Labor Laws ,
Tax Credits ,
Wage and Hour
- On March 16, 2020, the U.S. House of Representatives passed an amended version of the FFCRA.
- The FFCRA includes two different coronavirus-related paid leave requirements for employers with fewer than 500...more
3/18/2020
/ Coronavirus/COVID-19 ,
Family and Medical Leave Act (FMLA) ,
Health and Safety ,
Infectious Diseases ,
Paid Leave ,
Pending Legislation ,
Public Health ,
Sick Leave ,
Tax Credits ,
Wage and Hour ,
Workplace Safety
Working from home may not be practical in many work environments, for example, where company tools, machinery or equipment may be required to accomplish a job. Where a company must suspend work or close a work location, the...more
3/13/2020
/ Coronavirus/COVID-19 ,
Employer Liability Issues ,
Employment Policies ,
Health and Safety ,
Infectious Diseases ,
OSHA ,
Over-Time ,
Public Health ,
Reasonable Accommodation ,
Recordkeeping Requirements ,
Remote Working ,
Rest and Meal Break ,
Sick Leave ,
Timekeeping ,
Wage and Hour ,
Workplace Safety
- The continued spread of COVID-19 presents employers with an array of unprecedented workforce management and public health challenges.
- Decisions that employers may be called upon to make implicate a variety of...more
3/10/2020
/ Coronavirus/COVID-19 ,
Employee Benefits ,
Employer Liability Issues ,
Employment Policies ,
Health and Safety ,
Hiring & Firing ,
Infectious Diseases ,
Paid Leave ,
Public Health ,
Reasonable Accommodation ,
Remote Working ,
Risk Management ,
Salaried Employees ,
Sick Leave ,
Traveling Employee ,
Unpaid Leave ,
Wage and Hour ,
Workplace Safety
• Whistleblower Carve-Out: For all employment-related agreements containing non-disclosure provisions signed on or after January 1, 2020, firms should include new “whistleblower carve-out” language as dictated by New York...more
1/6/2020
/ Anti-Harassment Policies ,
Carve Out Provisions ,
Employee Handbooks ,
Employee Rights ,
Employee Training ,
Employer Liability Issues ,
Employment Contract ,
Governor Cuomo ,
Governor Vetoes ,
Hiring & Firing ,
Human Resources Professionals ,
Investment Firms ,
Investment Management ,
Non-Disclosure Agreement ,
Reproductive Discrimination ,
Sexual Harassment ,
State Labor Laws ,
Wage and Hour ,
Whistleblower Protection Policies ,
Whistleblowers
• The New York State Equal Pay Act (EPA) now will apply to all protected categories (including race, national origin, religion, etc.) rather than just gender, dramatically expanding the reach of the statute.
• New York...more
8/20/2019
/ Dress Codes ,
Employee Handbooks ,
Employer Liability Issues ,
Employment Discrimination ,
Employment Policies ,
Equal Pay ,
Equal Pay Act ,
Hairstyle Discrimination ,
Hiring & Firing ,
Job Applicants ,
New Legislation ,
Paid Leave ,
Pay Equity Laws ,
Race Discrimination ,
Salary/Wage History ,
State Labor Laws ,
Voting Leave ,
Wage and Hour
• New York City’s new Temporary Schedule Change Law requires firms to accommodate employee requests for temporary schedule changes for qualifying reasons up to two times per year.
• An amendment to the New York City Human...more
8/16/2018
/ Amended Legislation ,
Cooperative Dialogue ,
Employee Handbooks ,
Employee Rights ,
Employer Liability Issues ,
New Legislation ,
Policies and Procedures ,
Reasonable Accommodation ,
State Labor Laws ,
Wage and Hour ,
Work Schedules ,
Workplace Communication
• Connecticut has passed a law barring firms from asking job candidates about their compensation history.
• The law mirrors legislation recently enacted in New York City, California, and elsewhere.
• The law goes into...more
• New measure expands the NYC Earned Sick Time Act to Cover “Safe Time.”
• Safe Time can be used when an employee or a member of the employee’s family has been the victim of a family offense matter, sexual offense,...more
5/11/2018
/ Amended Legislation ,
Domestic Violence ,
Earned Sick Time ,
Employee Rights ,
Employer Liability Issues ,
Employment Policies ,
Human Trafficking ,
Paid Leave ,
Paid Time Off (PTO) ,
Stalking ,
State Labor Laws ,
Wage and Hour ,
Workplace Communication
• New York’s Paid Family Leave Law went into effect on January 1, 2018.
• All New York employers are impacted.
• New York employers have an obligation to notify employees of their right to paid family leave.
• Firms...more
• OMB has frozen the Obama-era employee pay data collection requirements that were set to take effect in March 2018.
• Employers should continue to use the prior version of the EEO-1 form and will have until March 31, 2018...more
9/6/2017
/ Data Collection ,
EEO-1 ,
Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) ,
Federal Contractors ,
Gender-Based Pay Discrimination ,
Obama Administration ,
OMB ,
Pay Data ,
Pay Discrimination ,
Pay Equity Laws ,
Stays ,
Wage and Hour
Over the past few months, New York lawmakers have accelerated their recent trend of making New York one of the most employee-friendly (and employer-unfriendly) states in the nation. Falling on the heels of other recent state...more
New York City’s new Mass Transit Benefits Law (MTBL) takes effect on January 1, 2016. The law requires covered firms to offer eligible employees the opportunity to use pre-tax income to pay for certain qualified transit...more