As New York employers look toward 2025, they should keep the following key dates in mind as it pertains to employee leave and benefit...
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As we previously reported, effective January 1, 2025, New York employers will be required to provide employees with 20 hours of paid...
On January 1, 2025, an amendment to New York Labor Law section 196-b, the state’s paid sick leave law, will go into effect. The amendment...
As of March 12, 2024, New York employers are prohibited from requesting or obtaining access to the personal social media accounts of...
On January 29, 2024, the Delaware Supreme Court issued an important decision addressing the enforceability of restrictive covenants. As...
It is indisputable that artificial intelligence (AI) has generated enormous buzz over the past several years. AI has had a substantial...
In December 2021, the New York City Council passed a novel, first-of-its-kind law addressing the use of artificial intelligence –...
On December 21, 2022, New York Governor Kathy Hochul signed the Warehouse Worker Protection Act (WWPA) into law. The WWPA is intended to...
On December 8, 2022, three New York City Council Members proposed a workplace-related bill that would essentially do away with the...
As we previously reported, effective tomorrow (November 1, 2022), New York City law will require that virtually all internal and external...
As we previously reported, earlier this year New York lawmakers passed a law requiring that all Empire State employers provide their...
Last summer, as New York began the process of non-essential business reopenings, the State issued a series of industry-specific workplace...
As most of our readers likely know by now, on May 13, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) announced that, “[i]f you...
New York is doing away with its quarantine requirement for out-of-state travelers. By way of background, in June 2020, New York issued a...
On March 12, Governor Andrew Cuomo signed into law a bill requiring that all public and private employers in New York State provide their...
As we approach the one-year anniversary of COVID-19’s upheaval of “business as usual,” we continue to field inquiries from Empire State...