On March 31, 2021, New York Governor Andrew Cuomo signed into law the Marihuana Regulation and Taxation Act (MRTA), which legalizes the adult recreational use of marijuana and revises Section 201-d of the New York Labor Law....more
On March 18, 2020, at Governor Andrew Cuomo’s behest, New York State passed an emergency law that extends paid leave and additional employment protections and benefits immediately to employees involuntarily quarantined in...more
3/20/2020
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By March 21, 2020, nearly every business - not only those that conduct business in New York State - that owns or licenses computerized data that includes the private information of any New York State resident, will be...more
3/12/2020
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SHIELD Act
As we previously reported, the New York City Council recently passed a bill to prohibit most pre-employment screening for marijuana by public and private employers. New York City mayor Bill de Blasio neither signed nor vetoed...more