On May 9, 2025, Governor Kathy Hochul signed into law significant amendments to the New York labor law, providing relief to employers in connection with frequency-of-pay violations. Previously, New York employers who failed...more
5/30/2025
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Last year, Governor Kathy Hochul signed into law the Retail Worker Safety Act (Act), one of the most extensive retail workplace violence prevention laws in the nation. Following an enforcement delay due to a February 2025...more
4/11/2025
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Effective August 28, 2024, companies that engage independent contractors in the state of New York must now comply with New York’s “Freelance Isn’t Free” Act (the Act), a statute that imposes a range of new requirements...more
On September 15, 2023, New York Governor Kathy Hochul signed into law Senate Bill 5640, which adds Section 203-f to the New York Labor Law. Section 203-f creates statutory limitations on an employer's use of invention...more
On June 20, 2023, the New York State Legislature passed a bill which, if signed by Governor Kathy Hochul, will impose a blanket ban on—and render unlawful—all future noncompete agreements in New York. As explained more fully...more
6/28/2023
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The New York State Assembly passed a bill on June 20, 2023, which, if signed by New York Governor Kathy Hochul, will impose a blanket ban on—and render unlawful—all future noncompete agreements. New York’s proposed law is the...more
6/23/2023
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The New York City Department of Consumer and Worker Protection (DCWP) adopted final rules for Local Law 144 on April 6, 2023. This landmark law prohibits employers from using automated employment decision tools (AEDTs) to...more
5/17/2023
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On April 5, 2023, New York City published final rules for Local Law 144, which prohibits employers from using automated employment decision tools (AEDTs) to screen job candidates unless certain bias audit and notice...more
On June 2, 2022, the New York State Legislature passed the Freelance Isn’t Free Act (Act). Largely patterned after New York City’s own, identically named law, the Act would amend the New York Labor Law to specify, among other...more
Adding to a growing list that already includes Massachusetts, D.C., California, and Illinois, in May 2022, several more states took steps to enact legislation to limit employers’ ability to use non-compete and other...more
Effective January 1, 2023, employers with New York City employees will be restricted in their use of artificial intelligence (AI) tools in recruiting and hiring employees and making other employment-related decisions....more
4/29/2022
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