The New York State Fair Credit Reporting Act (“FCRA”) (Gen. Bus. Law § 380 et seq.) has been amended to prohibit employers from requesting or using an applicant’s or employee’s consumer credit history for employment-related...more
2/18/2026
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On January 5, 2026, the U.S. Department of Labor’s Wage and Hour Division published an Opinion Letter (FMLA2026-2) addressing whether leave under the federal Family and Medical Leave Act (FMLA) may be used intermittently or...more
1/13/2026
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As we approach the new year, employers should be mindful of the upcoming state and local minimum wage rate increases effective January 1, 2026. While this alert highlights certain increases in New York, New Jersey, and...more
12/16/2025
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Employers are required to allow their employees in New York time off to serve as jurors and to be compensated for their time attending jury service and missing work. For the first time since 2003, the New York Judiciary Law...more
7/3/2025
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As previously reported here, on January 1, 2025, all private employers in New York State were required to begin providing their employees with up to twenty (20) hours of paid leave during any 52-week period for prenatal...more
6/27/2025
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New York State’s Reproductive Health Bias Law (the “Act”) has been reinstated following a Second Circuit ruling. The Act, found in Section 203-e of New York State’s Labor Law, prohibits discrimination based on an employee’s...more
Beginning January 1, 2025, New York will become the first state in the United States to require all private employers to provide their employees with paid prenatal personal leave.
The new paid prenatal leave law, proposed...more
In response to the COVID-19 pandemic, New York State had enacted a law requiring covered employers to provide paid sick leave and job-related protections to their employees subject to a COVID-19 mandatory or precautionary...more
The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) issued a final rule and interpretative guidance (Regulations) to implement the Pregnant Workers Fairness Act (PWFA), which goes into effect June 18, 2024....more
The U.S. Department of Labor (DOL) announced its highly anticipated final rule, “Defining and Delimiting the Exemptions for Executive, Administrative, Professional, Outside Sales, and Computer Employees" (the Final Rule),...more
The New York City Department of Consumer and Worker Protection (DCWP) recently published a "Know Your Rights at Work" poster. The one-page multilingual poster contains a scannable QR code linked to the DCWP website which...more
Employers are required to use the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) Employment Eligibility Verification (Form I-9) to verify the identity and employment authorization for...more
8/7/2023
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Back in May, New York’s Governor Kathy Hochul signed budget legislation increasing the NY minimum wage beginning January 1, 2024, and continuing through 2026. Further, as part of the legislation, beginning in 2027, and each...more
During the COVID-19 pandemic, employers addressed myriad workplace accommodation requests and endeavored to maintain healthy and safe workplaces while navigating guidance from the federal, state, and local levels addressing...more
As New York State employers know, there is a requirement to provide Notice of Pay Rate to new employees. Last month, the New York State Department of Labor (DOL) issued an updated sample. Below is an overview of the...more
Since December 27, 2021, by an Order of the Commissioner of Health and Mental Hygiene, New York City workers have been required to provide proof of vaccination against COVID-19 before entering the workplace....more
Last year on March 12, 2021, Governor Andrew Cuomo signed New York State legislation that granted employees paid time off to receive their COVID-19 vaccination (the Law), as we previously reported. ...more
As previously reported, under the New York State Health and Essential Rights Act (HERO Act) (which was signed into law on May 5, 2021), the New York State Department of Labor (DOL), in cooperation with the New York State...more
Mandatory Vaccinations-
The Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) is developing a rule requiring employers with 100 or more employees to ensure workers are fully vaccinated against COVID-19 or test negative...more
On July 27, 2021, the Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) updated its guidance When You’ve Been Fully Vaccinated given new evidence on the B.1.617.2 (Delta) variant.
Updated CDC Guidance-
The updated CDC...more
As we previously reported, Governor Andrew M. Cuomo signed Senate Bill S6768, on June 11, 2021, amending certain provisions of the New York Health and Essential Rights Act (Act), in the New York Labor Law, relating to...more
HERO Act-
On June 11, 2021, Governor Andrew M. Cuomo signed Senate Bill S6768 amending certain provisions of the New York Health and Essential Rights Act (Act), in the New York Labor Law, relating to preventing occupational...more
On March 12, 2021, Governor Cuomo signed legislation granting employees with paid time off to receive their COVID-19 vaccination.
Paid Leave Entitlement-
Employers, regardless of company size, are required to provide...more
On March 11, 2021, Governor Cuomo announced that domestic travelers will no longer be required to quarantine after entering New York State from another U.S. State or U.S Territory starting April 1, 2021 (unless they have been...more
On March 8, 2021, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) issued its first set of public health recommendations for fully vaccinated people: Interim Public Health Recommendations for Fully Vaccinated People. ...more