Discussions on Recent Legislation, Noteworthy Cases & Trends in Enforcement
Lately the legal coverage on social media is the supposedly widespread practice of employers demanding access to applicants’ and employees’ social media accounts. We blogged on May 11th about why…
Continue Reading Employers, now more than ever, need social media policies
Adam Liptak of The New York Times reported today that a large majority of the American public believes that Supreme Court decisions are influenced by the political and personal views of the…
Continue Reading New Poll: Supreme Court’s Approval Rating At 44%
I was reading some articles on Media Post and Law.Com about a recent class action lawsuit filed by female employees against Publicis Groupe SA and their attempts to have the judge who…
Continue Reading Why Your Company Must Have an Electronic Retention Policy
The National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) recently issued a decision interpreting the United States Supreme Court (“SCOTUS”) decision in Hoffman Plastic Compounds, Inc. v. NLRB, 535 U.S. 137 (2002) as…
Continue Reading NLRB Decision: Hell Hath No Fury Like a Board Scorned
We want to offer our congrats to our blog colleague, Andrez Carberry, for having been selected as a "Rising Star 2011" in Employment & Labor by Super Lawyer – New York …
We reported on March 1, 2011 that a White House report noted that despite higher educational attainmnt, women earned only 75% of men doing the same job.
The Bureau of Labor Statistics now…
Continue Reading New Bureau of Labor Statistics Report: Women Slightly Closing Pay Gap
A recent HR.com blog had an interesting article on using biometric time clocks to curb employees’ time clock fraud. Although the article correctly notes that having employees scan their finger…
Continue Reading Employers’ Use of Biometric Time Clocks Could Violate State Law
In this blog entry we deal with the U.S. Bankruptcy Code and its application to employment laws.
Under the provisions of the Bankruptcy Code, a governmental employer cannot discriminate against…
In our blog of February 22, 2011, we noted that under the anti-discrimination laws there is no protected class known as “the unemployed,” and if you are not hired because…
Continue Reading EEOC Considers Unemployment Status as a Protected Class
Effective April 9, 2011, Section 195.1 of the New York State Labor Law, requires all employers, other than governmental agencies, to give employees at the time of hire (before…
