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Amendments to New York City’s Earned Safe and Sick Time Act (ESSTA) are set to take effect on February 22, 2026. These amendments establish new safe and sick leave obligations for employers in New York City while reducing...

On December 19, 2025, New York Governor Kathy Hochul signed the Trapped at Work Act, a new law that prohibits employers from requiring workers to agree to “employment promissory notes” as a condition of employment. This...

Starting October 30, 2025, DHS implemented an interim final rule ending the automatic 540-day extension of employment authorization for certain foreign workers who file a renewal of their employment authorization document...

California and New York have recently enacted similar laws that give the states’ respective Public Employment Relations Boards (PERBs) the authority to handle unfair labor practice charges filed by workers and their unions....

Under the National Labor Relations Act, union members have the right to collectively bargain with their employer. However, what happens when these negotiations reach a point of seemingly no return?  When both the union and...

Continuing the wave of decisions overturning Trump-era precedent, last Friday, a divided Board issued a 3-2 decision limiting the power of property owners to restrict off-duty access of workers employed by onsite contractors....

UPDATE: On December 14, 2022, the National Labor Relations Board restored the Obama-era bargaining unit test making it easier for unions to secure representation elections for smaller groups of employees within a larger...

UPDATE: On December 13, 2022, the National Labor Relations Board broadened its arsenal of remedies to include certain pecuniary harms that “were direct or foreseeable consequences of” an unfair labor practice. In a...

New York State significantly expanded whistleblower protections for private sector employees alleging retaliation under New York Labor Law Section 740 (“Section 740”), effective January 26, 2022. These amendments expand...

Last week, we provided you with the fifth of our six analyses of 14 decisions of the Trump Board that the soon-to-be Biden Board majority likely will seek to overrule in a rush to return to the more pro-union stance of the...