Law Clips
Posted: June 16, 2021
New York recently enacted the New York Health and Essential Rights Act (the “HERO Act”), which requires private employers in New York State to take certain measures to prevent occupational exposure to an airborne infectious disease. We summarize ...
Posted: May 21, 2021
Determining whether an individual providing services for a company is an independent contractor or employee can be confusing to business owners. Employees are eligible for many rights, benefits, and employment law protections that are not available...
Posted: May 13, 2021
New Jersey, New York and New Mexico recently legalized recreational marijuana use for adults, adding to the many states (Washington, California, Nevada, Maine, and Massachusetts, to name a few) that have already done so. But what does this mean for...
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...