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Former New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio's Advisory Commission on Property Tax Reform (the Commission) issued a report on Dec. 28, 2021, titled "The Road to Reform: A Blueprint for Modernizing and Simplifying New York City's...more
On December 24, 2021, New York City enacted a law (Introduction No. 2448-2021) permitting employees who are parents to take paid time off to accompany their children when they receive COVID-19 vaccinations. In addition, the...more
Further to New York City Mayor Bill DeBlasio’s December 6, 2021 announcement, the New York City Department of Health has now released detailed guidance regarding the vaccine mandate for private employers. Specifically,...more
On December 15, 2021, New York City released highly anticipated guidance and a helpful FAQ regarding compliance with Mayor Bill de Blasio’s private sector “first-in-the-nation” vaccine mandate. The new directive requires all...more
On December 6, 2021, Mayor Bill de Blasio announced major expansions to the “Key to NYC” program, including directing his Commissioner of Health and Mental Hygiene to issue a vaccine mandate for private-sector workers. On...more
On December 6, 2021, New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio announced a vaccine mandate which requires that all private sector employees who work in a workplace in the presence of another worker, or who interact with a member of...more
While employers throughout the country are waiting on the Sixth Circuit to consider OSHA’s Emergency Temporary Standard requiring private employers with more than 100 employees to implement mandatory vaccination or testing...more
New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene Commissioner Dr. Dave A. Chokshi has issued an order requiring most New York City private sector employees to be vaccinated. The order was issued Dec. 13, 2021, but...more
On December 6, 2021, New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio announced a first-in-the-nation vaccination order for private-sector workers in New York City, set to take effect on December 27, 2021. The New York City commissioner of...more
New York City parents working in the private sector will now be able to use the constantly-evolving Earned Safe and Sick Time Act to have their children vaccinated against COVID-19. The legislation amending the Act, which...more
New York City has made significant changes to its Key to NYC mandatory vaccination requirements for indoor dining, gyms and entertainment venues. As of December 14, 2021, children between the ages of five and eleven must show...more
Employers continue to have to keep up with changing COVID-19 standards nationwide. New York is one example. On a state-wide level, on December 10, 2021, Governor Kathy Hochul announced a mandate that requires masks to be...more
On December 6, 2021, Mayor Bill de Blasio announced that New York City would be adding new rules and requirements for vaccination against COVID-19, including a “universal” vaccine mandate affecting all private employers—about...more
The New York City Council just passed a new COVID vaccination bill requiring paid leave for parents per child per injection. Additionally, businesses and employees in New York City are subject to new vaccine mandates...more
New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio, whose term as mayor ends on January 1, 2022, has announced that the city’s Department of Health will issue a mandate requiring full vaccination of any employee of a private sector business....more
On December 6, 2021, NYC mayor Bill DeBlasio announced that all private-sector workers in the city will be subject to the vaccine mandate, effective December 27. The following day, however, Judge Frank P. Nervo in the Supreme...more
On the morning of December 6, 2021, Mayor Bill de Blasio announced major expansions to the “Key to New York City” program. The city will issue additional enforcement and reasonable accommodation guidance on December 15,...more
On December 6, 2021, New York City Mayor Bill DeBlasio announced sweeping new vaccine requirements for NYC employers and residents, including a “first-in-the-nation” requirement that all private-sector employers mandate that...more
On December 6, 2021, New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio announced that all New York City employers, regardless of size, will be required to impose COVID-19 vaccination mandates on all employees (subject to legally protected...more
On December 6, 2021, outgoing New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio announced major expansions to New York’s “Key to NYC” program, which was implemented through Emergency Executive Order 225 and became effective on August 17,...more
On December 6, 2021, New York City announced a vaccine mandate for all private-sector employers that will take effect on December 27, 2021. The mandate, which will require all in-person employees who are in a workplace with...more
On September 23, 2021, the New York City Council passed six bills - a first-of-its-kind legislative package directed at gig economy workers - that seeks to provide protections to the city’s food delivery workers. The bills,...more
New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio issued Executive Order 225 (the Order) and related guidance on August 16 regarding the “Key to NYC” vaccination requirements for indoor entertainment/recreation, dining, and fitness...more
On August 3, 2021, New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio announced that proof of vaccination would be required for individuals to enter certain indoor establishments. In a first of its kind mandate, New York City officially...more
New York City tenants harboring “big brother” concerns over landlords abusing data collected through smart access (i.e., keyless entry) systems will soon be able to rest easier. Following California, Virginia, and the British...more