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Department of Labor Secretary Alex Acosta recently stepped down from the position, and President Trump has named Eugene Scalia as his repl..

Both the New York State Human Rights Law and Dignity for All Students Act were expanded last Friday to ban race discrimination based on ....

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 NYS Legislature recently approved changes to the state’s discrimination and harassment laws. Governor Cuomo has indicated that he int...

On April 12, 2019, Governor Cuomo signed into law the New York Fiscal Year 2020 Budget, which included an amendment retroactively extendi...

The trend to legalize marijuana continues.  Governor Andrew Cuomo recently announced his intention for New York to be one of the next sta...

Yesterday, the U.S. Department of Labor (DOL) issued three opinion letters. This is the first of a series of blog posts addressing the le...

We all remember the planned 2016 changes to federal overtime laws.  Employers put a lot of time into ensuring they were prepared and thei...

The NYS Legislature has passed a bill which would add bereavement leave to the list of permissible reasons to take paid family leave.  Th...