Alcoholism and Sobriety: Can The Americans with Disabilities Act Be Helpful?
Living with alcoholism can be debilitating, lonely, and can also cause major issues between you and your employer. According to StopAddiction.com, 1.1 million New York adults have abused alcohol within...
View ArticleAccount Executives in NYC: Are You Eligible for Overtime Pay?
In New York City, there are thousands of account executives, account representatives, enterprise sales account representatives and marketing representatives who hold very similar positions which...
View ArticleBrooklyn Nurses: Should You Be Receiving Overtime Pay?
Of the 1.1 million workers living in Brooklyn, NY, 25.8% work in education, healthcare, and social services. In other words, the healthcare industry is one of Brooklyn’s largest employers. If you...
View ArticleDiscrimination Updates: Two New Supreme Court Decisions Impacting New York...
On Monday, June 24, 2013, the Supreme Court handed down two major decisions that New York City and Brooklyn employees should take note of with respect to their protections under Title VII, the New York...
View ArticleMinimum Wage and Tipped Minimum Wages: The Department of Labor Calls For...
As Acting Secretary of the Department of Labor Seth D. Harris stated in his Congressional testimony yesterday, minimum wage workers are increasingly struggling to support themselves and their families....
View ArticleBack Pains and Muscle Strains: Protection From Disability Discrimination
According to the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke, nearly every person experiences back pain that interferes with work at some point in their lives. In fact, lower back pain is...
View ArticleTips to the Wise: New York Court of Appeals Ruling Clarifying Valid Tip...
Recently, the New York Court of Appeals handed down a ruling that supported a tip pool policy which will affect thousands of tipped restaurant and hospitality workers such as waiters, waitresses,...
View ArticleArrest Discrimination and Conviction Discrimination: EEOC Increases Enforcement
Arrest Discrimination and Conviction Discrimination (together known as “criminal record discrimination”) in New York City are on the rise and, at the federal level, the U.S. Equal Employment...
View ArticleUpstate Prisons, Upstate Courts, Upstate Juries
The upstate New York prison industry has long maintained a stranglehold on criminal justice affairs for downstate NY. The upstate economy needs prisoners, and downstate has people to imprison. The...
View ArticleDiscrimination in College: Title IX, At 40, Levels The Playing Field For...
Students who played athletics in college within the last 40 years have some experience of the impact of Title IX on college athletics. By all accounts, as far as reducing gender discrimination in...
View ArticleNew York State Attorney General Continues to Aggressively Prosecute Labor Law...
Recently, the New York State Attorney General, Eric T. Schneiderman, has prosecuted two companies in Brooklyn courts for a variety of labor law violations. One company facing serious legal charges is...
View ArticlePaying Employees with Pre-Paid Debit Cards: Is This Legal? The New York...
In late June, a Pennsylvania McDonald’s franchise came under legal fire for paying employee’s wages through pre-paid debit cards, or payroll cards. Natalie Gunshannon, who brought suit against the...
View ArticleBanquet Servers Disappointed by SDNY Ruling Depriving Them Of Tips
Recently, a federal district judge in the Southern District of New York dismissed a class action lawsuit, Bejjani et al v. Manhattan Sheraton Corporation et al, brought by banquet servers against the...
View ArticleSexual Harassment and Injustice in the Heartland: An “Irresistible” Employee...
It is hard to forget the outcome of the infamous 2012 Iowa Supreme Court case involving a woman, Melissa Nelson, who was fired from her job because she was too “irresistible” to her male employer, Dr....
View ArticleThe Debilitating Effects of Postpartum Depression and Your Legal Protections...
Postpartum depression is a devastating illness that can impair a woman’s ability to perform tasks both at home and at work. Typically, the condition develops one or more months after pregnancy and can...
View ArticleDiscrimination Class Actions: Will the Tide Turn?
Not long after the Wal-mart v. Dukes Supreme Court decision limited discrimination plaintiffs’ ability to pursue class actions, legal commentators began signaling the demise of nationwide class action...
View ArticlePregnancy Discrimination: Top Law Firm Faces Bias Lawsuit
Discrimination is a persistent force, a fact made clear when even lawyers who supposedly should know the law, and thus know better than to commit acts of discrimination, commit such acts and discredit...
View ArticleBrooklyn and New York City Staffing Agencies: Workers Be Wary
Staffing agencies in Brooklyn and New York City have a long history of poor compliance with state and federal employment statutes and labor laws, including laws relating to overtime pay. Just last...
View ArticleRetaliation in New Jersey: State Supreme Court Broadens the Definition of...
New Jersey has some of the most comprehensive antidiscrimination and antiretaliation laws in the country, including the Law Against Discrimination (LAD) and the Conscientious Employee Protection Act...
View ArticleFMLA Interference: What Is It and How Could It Apply to You?
Our firm has worked with many clients who have been restricted in their use of FMLA benefits because of employer discouragement or interference. Under the Family and Medical Leave Act (FMLA) it is...
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