The American Rescue Plan Act of 2021 (“ARPA”), signed by President Biden on March 11, 2021, once again gives covered employers the right to voluntarily decide to continue to provide qualified leave under the Emergency Paid...more
New law provides up to four hours of paid leave for vaccination: On March 12, 2021, New York Governor Andrew Cuomo signed legislation entitling New York employees to up to four hours of paid leave to receive COVID-19...more
The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (“EEOC”) recently updated its Compliance Manual Section on Religious Discrimination, seeking to clarify how Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 (“Title VII”) protects...more
On January 20, 2021, the New York State Department of Labor issued new guidance on the State’s COVID-19 leave law, which requires that employers provide up to fourteen days of job-protected leave to eligible employees who are...more
Last week, the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (“EEOC”) updated its COVID-19 guidance to address workplace issues related to COVID-19 vaccines, including mandatory vaccination policies. According to the EEOC,...more
In April 2020, Governor Andrew Cuomo signed into law new paid sick/safe leave requirements for all New York State employers (the “State Law”). We provided a summary of the State Law in our previous client alert. On...more
On September 22, the U.S. Department of Labor ("DOL") announced new proposed regulations regarding when workers can be classified as independent contractors under the Fair Labor Standards Act (“FLSA”). The FLSA requires...more
As we mentioned in an earlier post, New York recently enacted a permanent sick leave policy requiring all employers in New York State, regardless of size, to provide sick leave to their employees. Although employers are not...more
The U.S. Department of Labor (“DOL”) has issued revised regulations regarding the availability of paid sick leave and expanded family and medical leave under the Families First Coronavirus Response Act (“FFCRA”). These...more
With many students heading back to school, the U.S. Department of Labor (“DOL”) has issued additional guidance on when employees are eligible for leave under the Families First Coronavirus Response Act (“FFCRA”) based on the...more
This past Monday, a federal district court in New York struck down several portions of the regulations issued by the U.S. Department of Labor (“DOL”) implementing the emergency family leave and paid sick leave provisions of...more
On July 20, 2020, the Wage and Hour Division (“WHD”) of the U.S. Department of Labor (“DOL”) published further guidance regarding the protections and requirements of certain Acts—the Fair Labor Standards Act (“FLSA”), the...more
On March 18, 2020, New York Governor Andrew Cuomo signed into law legislation (the “Act”) providing all New York employees with COVID-19-related sick leave (discussed in our previous alert). On June 24, 2020, Governor Cuomo...more
In a landmark decision issued on Monday, Bostock v. Clayton County, the Supreme Court ruled that workers across the United States cannot be fired or otherwise discriminated against for being gay, lesbian, or transgender. ...more
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In Part One of this alert, we discussed several practical considerations that employers should bear in mind as they plan for the safe return of their employees to the workplace. Here, in Part Two, we explain how employers...more
With no certainty about when a vaccine will be widely available to the general public, and all ?fty states beginning to lift their shutdown orders, it has become clear that businesses will need to prepare for the reality of...more
On April 23, 2020, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (“EEOC”) issued new guidance clarifying that employers may conduct mandatory testing of employees for COVID-19 before they enter the workplace so long as the...more
As the COVID-19 pandemic and ensuing widespread shutdown of workplaces around the country continues (and for New Yorkers is expected to continue through at least May 15), government agencies have been busy issuing guidance...more
Effective January 1, 2021, the majority of workers in New York will receive paid sick leave. On April 2, 2020, as part of New York’s budget approval process, the New York legislature and Governor Cuomo enacted a permanent...more
The New York State Court of Appeals recently issued a decision in a closely-watched case that helps to clarify the landscape regarding independent contractors and employees in the gig economy.
In In the Matter of the Claim...more
As employees begin requesting leave under the recently-passed New York legislation providing COVID-19-related sick leave (the “New York Act”) and the Families First Coronavirus Response Act (the “FFCRA”), employers should...more
On March 27, 2020, the President signed into law the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security Act (the “CARES Act” or the “Act”), a $2 trillion COVID-19 relief and stimulus package that offers extraordinary financial...more
As employers navigate the challenges of the COVID-19 public health crisis, many have been forced to consider difficult decisions about laying off and furloughing employees, or otherwise reducing employee work hours. In...more
The U.S. Department of Labor has issued additional guidance on the Families First Coronavirus Response Act (the “Act”), which the President signed into law on March 18. As a reminder, the Act imposes new obligations on...more
The COVID-19 pandemic has raised new and important questions for employers, including those about balancing employee privacy with the need to warn employees about possible exposure to the novel coronavirus. Here are some...more