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Under the federal Fair Labor Standards Act, employers who agree with employees who work a fluctuating number of hours each week to pay th...

The recent sad and tragic accident involving a young boy’s death at an outdoor grease trap at a local coffee shop brings to mind the duties

New York State Governor Cuomo is expected to sign a bill granting employees and former employees the power to lien real and personal prop...

The determination of the regular rate of pay for employees who are non-exempt under the Fair Labor Standards Act (“FLSA”) and, therefore,...

As part of the New York fiscal year 2020 budget announced April 1, 2019, Election Law Section 3-110 was immediately amended to allow work...

This question and answer was printed in a Monroe County Medical Society 2019 Bulletin. This relatively short question implicates many emp...

Good news!  On 2/27/19, the New York State Department of Labor issued a statement that it would not pursue implementing the proposed call...

Employers who use E-Verify to comply with their I-9 obligations have not had access to the system since December 22, 2018.  Crucially, ho...

As New York State employers continue to manage their first year of paid family leave (PFL) benefits available to employees in 2018 (8 wee...

For good reason, given the volume of litigation generated by them, restrictive covenants in employment agreements attempting to limit or ...

It has long been the law in New York that employment contract covenants restricting what employees can do post-employment, generally diff...

If one of your employees shows up for work drunk, you can fire them. But if they tell you they’re an alcoholic, you’ll probably have to...

Federal and state employment laws protect transgender people from discrimination and harassment in the workplace. Many employers may not...

In a recent tragic and somewhat unlucky case, attorneys are reminded of the significant responsibility we accept when we are retained by ...

Please see this case study from 2014 which demonstrates the need to thoroughly investigate all claims of sexual harassment in the workpl....

In New York and most other states, employment is presumptively at-will, meaning both employer and employee are free to terminate the empl...