Law Clips
Posted: April 20, 2021
With all the recently enacted federal and state laws that provide employees with COVID-19 sick and vaccine-related leaves of absences, employers may be uncertain of their obligations. Some provisions are voluntary, but others are mandatory. The f...
Posted: March 25, 2021
Over the past year many employers have implemented remote work options on an unprecedented scale. The success of this transition has made many businesses consider continuing remote work arrangements to some extent going forward. This may have m...
Posted: March 11, 2021
While many employers consider whether to incentivize, encourage, or even require their employees to obtain COVID-19 vaccines, New York has just passed a bill requiring employers to provide employees with “a sufficient period of time”, up to a max...
Posted: February 26, 2021
Criminal background questions used to be standard fare on job applications. This may now be unlawful. Multiple locations have passed so-called “ban-the-box” or “fair chance” laws that prohibit or limit employers’ ability to ask about or...
Posted: February 10, 2021
As the pandemic drags on, employers’ obligations to pay employees when they need to be out of work due to having COVID-19, or having had a COVID-19 exposure, are changing.
The federal Families First Coronavirus Response Act (“FFCRA”) expired...
Posted: January 14, 2021
Our partner Jessica Shpall Rosen was quoted by Law360 on Enterprise WARN Act Ruling.
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Posted: December 29, 2020
The federal Families First Coronavirus Response Act (“FFCRA”), which requires certain employers to provide paid sick and family leave for certain COVID-19-related reasons, will expire as originally intended on December 31, 2020. It was not exte...
Posted: December 28, 2020
With COVID-19 vaccines already being administered, many businesses feel a heightened sense of urgency and have reached out to us with questions about whether to (and how to) adopt a vaccination policy. For the last few months, employers have pondered...
Posted: December 8, 2020
Employees have traditionally worked from their employers’ offices or facilities. As a result, businesses only needed to concern themselves with the employment laws of the states (counties or cities) where they had physical locations.
Although ...
Posted: November 13, 2020
Amazon won a legal victory on Nov. 1 in Palmer v. Amazon.com Inc.[1] when the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York dismissed...