New York City recently amended its rules related to the Earned Safe and Sick Time Act (ESSTA). The Act is enforced by the NYC Department of Consumer and Worker Protection (DCW). The newly amended rules provide specific...more
7/2/2025
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Although the Massachusetts Noncompetition Agreement Act expressly excludes nonsolicitation agreements from its definition of “noncompetition agreements,” the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court (SJC) recently responded to a...more
The New Jersey Pay and Benefit Transparency Act (NJPBTA), effective June 1, 2025, requires employers to disclose salary information and benefit details in job postings, both internal and external job postings. NJBPTA follows...more
6/2/2025
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Wage and Hour
Recently, in a case of first impression, Judge Angel Kelley of the United States District Court for the District of Massachusetts confronted a “seemingly simple” question on a motion to dismiss: does a difference of one day...more
On December 3, the New York City Council passed a bill referred to as the New York City Employee Bill of Rights. Essentially, the bill would require coordination among a number of New York City agencies, including the New...more
Since the May 5, 2018, amendment of the New York Safe and Sick Time Act (20 NYCRR §§ 20-911 et seq), the New York Department of Consumer Affairs (DCA) has ramped up compliance investigations of employers, issuing Notices of...more