As my colleague Christina Stoneburner wrote earlier in the week, we aren’t even through summer 2016, yet the number of new employment laws and regulations enacted that employers must
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“Ban The Box” Goes Into Effect in NYC
Back in June, we reported that the New York City Council passed, and Mayor Bill de Blasio had signed into law, the New York City Fair Chance Act (FCA)…
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Can Criminals Be Rehabilitated?
This week, I read an article in AmLaw Daily that one of the “Jena 6” is going to law school. For those who might not remember, before there was Ferguson…
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Happy New Year! With a New Year Comes New Laws.
If we have all learned something writing and reading this blog, it is that new employment laws seem to crop up more frequently than Bigfoot sightings. I don’t want to…
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Governor Christie Signs Ban the Box Legislation
Yesterday afternoon, Governor Christie signed the Opportunity to Compete Act (“Act”), colloquially referred to as the “Ban the Box” law.
The Act will be effective March 1, 2015 and applies…
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