Insights

Employers should be prepared for increases to the New York State minimum hourly wage for non-exempt employees and increases in the minimum salary for exempt administrative and executive employees effective December 31, 2018....

The New Jersey Department of Labor and Workforce Development (“LWD”) has published its Notice of Employee Rights regarding the New Jersey Earned Sick Leave Law. This is a new law which takes effect on October 29, 2018....

As previously reported here, both New York State and New York City recently passed broad expansions of the laws regarding sexual harassment in the workplace. On October 1, 2018, the New York State Division of Human Rights...

On May 2, 2018, New Jersey Governor Phil Murphy signed into law the New Jersey Paid Sick Leave Act. Beginning on October 29, 2018, employees throughout New Jersey will accrue up to 40 hours of paid sick leave each year to...

The Tax Cuts and Jobs Act, signed by President Trump on December 22, 2017, contains a little discussed section that eliminates the deductibility of settlement payments and related attorney’s fees in sexual harassment...

UPDATE:  The New York City Council’s package of legislation referred to as the “Stop Sexual Harassment in NYC Act” was signed into law by Mayor de Blasio on May 9, 2018. The NYC law’s requirement that employers post...

Effective July 18, 2018, a new law the New York City Council recently passed Int. 1399-A will require that employers grant employees two temporary schedule changes per year for certain medical and family care purposes.[1]...

As previously reported here, New York City’s Temporary Schedule Change Law requires  New York City employers to grant employees two temporary schedule changes per year for certain medical and family care purposes,...

The New York Workers’ Compensation Board (“WCB”) recently released model policy language and a Statement of Rights regarding the New York Paid Family Leave Law (“PFL”), which takes effect on January 1, 2018....

Related article: New NLRB General Counsel’s Revolutionary Reversal of Direction On December 14, 2017, in a 3-2 decision in Boeing Company, 365 NLRB No. 154, the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) overruled its decision...