Labor & Employment

Has your company completed its mandatory 2020 NY Sexual Harassment Training?

Valerie K. Ferrier, Partner and Head of the Firm's Labor & Employment Practice Group, wrote an article entitled "Workplace Bias Pleading May Change After Title IX Shift," which was featured in Law360:

Congratulations to our Partner, and Head of the Firm's Labor & Employment Practice Group, Valerie K. Ferrier, for receiving Martindale-Hubbell's Highest Rating: AV Preeminent!

Join us in the Lawline's online CLE course: Sexual Harassment and Gender Discrimination in New York: What is it Not?, on Thursday, June 11, 2020 at 11:30AM EDT.

Join us in the Lawline's online CLE course: It's Against My Religion: Religious Accommodations in the Workplace, on Thursday, June 11, 2020 at 10AM EDT.

Many businesses in New York are starting to think about when and how to reopen. Governor Cuomo has indicated that upstate regions could embark on a phased, partial reopening shortly after May 15, when the statewide stay-at-home order is currently scheduled to expir

As New York seems to have flattened the curve of infection, many business owners are starting to consider what it will take to get back to work.

Our Partner and Head of the Firm's Labor & Employment Practice Group, Valerie K. Ferrier will be a panelist for the NGLCCNY

Sick Leave and Shut Downs: Coronavirus Advice for Employers

The Coronavirus outbreak has already put many companies and their employees under unbearable strain, and the shifting landscape of what is required is confusing for everyone.

‍Law360 (February 18, 2020, 5:18PM EST) --"Wage and hour cases present a particular threat to small businesses. The hospitality industry is especially vulnerable to these claims.

On January 6, 2020, the statewide salary history ban, Labor Law Section 194-A, went into effect for New York.

In 2015, the Second Circuit Court of Appeals (the appellate jurisdiction that includes New York) held that settlements of federal wage and hour claims under the Fair Labor Standards Act (“FLSA”)