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Artificial intelligence (AI) presents both a large opportunity for employers — and potentially a source of reputational risk — depending on how its adoption is handled. As AI transforms the workplace, unions are responding...more
On April 14, 2025, a cannabis retailer filed suit to challenge the provision of New York’s cannabis law that requires licensed businesses to maintain labor peace agreements with their workers. The New York lawsuit asserts...more
Welcome to the fifth edition of The Leisure Law Insider! Released quarterly, we cover the latest news and developments in leisure and hospitality law, regulation, and policy. Expect content on hotels, franchising, labor and...more
New York Senate Bill 7676B regulates contracts for the creation and use of digital replicas. This law took effect on January 1, 2025. The law defines “digital replica” as “a digital simulation of the voice or likeness of an...more
Amidst the holidays and end-of-year scramble, New York State Governor Kathy Hochul vetoed legislation that would have required Industrial Development Agencies to have school district and labor union representatives on their...more
In response to thousands of agency complaints it received in 2023, the New York State Department of Health (NYSDOH) issued guidance to hospitals on March 26, 2024, regarding compliance with recent legislation on clinical...more
New York State and City law already impose a myriad of posting and notice distribution requirements on New York City employers. Beginning July 1, 2024, New York City employers must distribute to employees and “conspicuously...more
On September 6, 2023, Governor Kathy Hochul signed into law Senate Bill 4982 and Assembly Bill 6604, which amends Section 201-D of the New York Labor Law to prohibit most employers from requiring non-managerial and...more
For New York employers, fall has brought with it more than just cooler temperatures, thanks to a wave of activity from Governor Kathy Hochul’s desk (after a busy legislative summer). Below, we highlight six significant...more
New York employers faced with union organizing are now prohibited from holding mandatory "captive audience" meetings (i.e., meetings in response to union organizing campaigns) and disciplining employees who refuse to attend...more
As summer turns to fall, New York State Governor Kathy Hochul, with choreographed fanfare, celebrated Labor Day by signing several employment-related bills into law. Notably missing from the Governor’s autograph spree was...more
Seyfarth Synopsis: On September 6, 2023, New York Governor Kathy Hochul signed into law legislation that, effective immediately, prohibits employers from disciplining employees who refuse to participate in meetings concerning...more
New York recently prohibited employers from disciplining employees who refuse to attend meetings or listen to communications where the “primary purpose” is for management to express its views on religious or political...more
On September 6, New York State Governor Kathy Hochul signed into law (A6604 / S4982) a bill banning businesses from requiring employees to attend meetings or listen to communications where the “primary purpose” of such...more
During a busy term at the New York Legislature, Governor Kathy Hochul signed legislation prohibiting captive audience meetings, categorizing wage theft as larceny, and expanding protection of “gender identity or expression”...more
Last month, the New York Department of Labor promulgated amendments to its New York Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification Act (NY WARN) regulations. These amendments are now in effect, and they add significant burdens...more
New York statutes classify certain civil service positions as exempt where such positions are confidential in nature and require personal qualities that cannot practicably be tested by an examination. These positions are...more
The New York City primary elections will be held next Tuesday, June 27. All 51 members of the City Council are up for re-election, along with the District Attorneys for the Bronx, Queens, and Staten island, civil court...more
The New York Legislature took action at the end of the 2023 session to prohibit mandatory employer meetings on “religious or political matters,” passing Senate Bill S4982 / Assembly Bill 6604 on June 10. If signed into law,...more
Senate Rejects LaSalle- The New York State Senate voted 39-20 against Hon. Hector LaSalle, Governor Hochul’s nominee for Chief Judge. The vote, which was primarily along party lines, ended the tension between the Governor...more
The National Labor Relations Board (“NLRB” or “Board”) capped off an extremely busy week, by issuing another precedent-reversing decision, on the last day of Republican Member John Ring’s 5-year term. In Bexar County II, 372...more
On November 23, 2021, the New York City Council passed a bill requiring certain employers to report unionization efforts amongst their employees when they receive funding from New York City (either directly or indirectly) to...more
New York’s industry-altering Marijuana Regulation and Taxation Act includes an apparent mandate that cannabis retailers enter into, maintain and adhere to a “Labor Peace Agreement” with a labor union in order to legally grow,...more
Federal Court Rejects New York City Police Officer’s Employment Discrimination Action The U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York has granted summary judgment to the defendants in an employment...more