Beginning Oct. 8, 2019, New York’s Equal Pay Law will prohibit employers from paying different wages to employees solely because they belong to a protected class. This means that employers must pay the same wages to employees who perform substantially similar...
When you suspect employee harassment – that one of your employees harassed another – but you only have their conflicting stories to go on, what action can you take? If you have no videos, no witnesses, no emails, and only the accuser’s account of the...
Has one of your employees recently returned from maternity leave? Are they asking for time to pump or otherwise express breast milk during work hours? In New York, all employers must follow New York’s lactation accommodation laws. New York law requires that...
On Monday, lawmakers in Albany County defeated proposed legislation that would have required employers to provide paid sick time to full- and part-time employees. The total time employees would have been able to accrue was dependent on the size of the employer....
Many states have voting leave laws, but it is also important to consider that many employers generally allow some flexibility in hours when a national or state election is held even if voting leave is not required by law. Most of the state laws governing voting leave...