News & Analysis

On November 5, 2015, the New York City Commission on Human Rights (NYCCHR) released its 13-page Interpretative Enforcement Guidance regarding the City's Fair Chance Act (FCA).

Expanded paid sick leave protections in the Garden State.

Connecticut has passed a new law regulating electronic nicotine delivery systems and vapor products in various venues, including numerous places of employment.

It is not a matter of "if" but "when" an employer will be required to notify employees of a security breach.

The new two-year bipartisan budget, signed by President Obama on November 2, 2015, allows (in fact requires) OSHA to raise its citation penalties for the first time in 25 years.

On October 21, 2015, Governor Cuomo signed into law five bills that will provide greater protection for women in the workplace.

Amendments to the New York Labor Law that expanded permitted deductions from wages for overpayments and advances against wages, among other items, will expire on November 6.

On Monday, President Obama signed into law a two-year bipartisan budget deal that has several implications for employers.

Obscenities alone—even when viewed by an employer's customers—do not deprive employees engaged in protected concerted activity of the NLRA's protections.

The NLRB's recent decision in Lily Transportation Corp. highlights the potential impact of a finding that a follow-on service provider is a "successor" to a prior provider.