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New York Ends COVID-19 Sick Leave Requirements

Fox Rothschild LLP on 7/23/2025

Effective July 31, 2025, New York will no longer require employers to provide paid sick leave to employees who contract COVID-19. As discussed in our prior alert, New York has required employers to provide COVID-19 leave...more

NYC DOT Adopts New Rules for Outdoor Dining

Venable LLP on 4/12/2024

Effective March 3, 2024, the New York City Department of Transportation (NYC DOT) adopted new rules for the City's permanent outdoor dining program, Dining Out NYC. Spanning approximately 30 pages, the new rules replace the...more

Broad Street Brief: Council Investigates City’s Carbon Neutrality Efforts

Cozen O'Connor on 3/8/2024

A Preview of Mayor Parker’s First Budget Proposal Mayor Cherelle Parker will present her first budget plan next week, which is expected to focus largely on her campaign promises to make Philadelphia safer, cleaner, and...more

Reminder to Continue COVID 19 Right to Recall Until December 31, 2025

Stokes Wagner on 3/1/2024

Although the COVID-19 pandemic might feel like a thing of the past, California’s Right to Recall continues in place. In October 2023, Governor Newsom signed bill SB 723, which amended California’s Right to Recall law and...more

California Expands Right to Recall for Hospitality Employees

Ervin Cohen & Jessup LLP on 12/29/2023

During the height of the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020, California enacted a temporary right to recall for hospitality employees, codified as Labor Code section 2810.8. This law covers laid-off employees who were employed for the...more

The 12 Days of California Labor and Employment Series – Day 8 "Expansion of COVID-19 Layoff Recall Rights"

Hinshaw & Culbertson - Employment Law... on 12/19/2023

In the spirit of the season, we are using our annual "12 days of the holidays" blog series to address new California laws and their impact on California employers. On the eighth day of the holidays, my labor and employment...more

Workplace Law Forecast 2024 - Your workplace law recap for 2023 and predictions for 2024 to help you prepare for the coming year.

Fisher Phillips on 12/4/2023

When I reflect on the relationship that our firm has with our clients, I’m most proud of the fact that you can always count on us. That often means defending complex litigation, steering you through regulatory threats,...more

California's New Employment Laws: Get Ready for 2024

Davis Wright Tremaine LLP on 10/31/2023

Governor Newsom signed into law a plethora of bills that significantly expand the rights of employees in California, although notably vetoing a bill that would have prohibited caste discrimination. Most of the new laws take...more

Hospitality and Service Industries Should Be On Alert For Extended COVID-19 Re-Hire Rights

CDF Labor Law LLP on 10/27/2023

Employees in certain covered hospitality and service sectors, who were laid-off for reasons related to the COVID-19 pandemic, were granted another year of extended re-hire rights through December 31, 2025 under Senate Bill...more

COVID-19 Right of Recall Extended

Jackson Lewis P.C. on 10/11/2023

On October 10, 2023, Governor Newsom signed Senate Bill (SB) 723, which moves the expiration the right of recall rights for employees in the hospitality and service industry from December 31, 2024, to December 31, 2025. The...more

Workplace Law Update: 22 Essential Items on Your August To-Do List

Fisher Phillips on 8/7/2023

It’s hard to keep up with all the recent changes to labor and employment law, especially since the law always seems to evolve at a rapid pace. In order to ensure you stay on top of the latest changes and have an action plan...more

California Legislature Moves to Expand and Make Permanent Hospitality and Building Services Recall Rights

Ogletree, Deakins, Nash, Smoak & Stewart,... on 6/29/2023

The California Legislature is poised to make it even more difficult for hospitality and business service providers to operate in California. Senate Bill (SB) No. 723 amends California Labor Code Section 2810.8, which provides...more

Schlussstrich in Sachen Betriebsschließungen von Hotellerie/Gastronomie während der Corona Pandemie? Zumindest für die „zweite...

Hogan Lovells on 5/17/2023

Das Bundesverwaltungsgericht hat gestern zwei Urteile des Oberverwaltungsgericht des Saarlandes aufgehoben (bislang liegt nur die Pressemitteilung vor), welche die infektionsschutzrechtliche Generalklausel nicht als...more

Bürgschaften auf erstes Anfordern in Hotel-Betreiberverträgen – Marktstandard, aber kein Ersatz für eine Barkaution

Hogan Lovells on 1/31/2023

In Betreiberverträgen werden Sicherheiten überwiegend in Form von Höchstbetragsbürgschaften auf erstes Anfordern vereinbart. Dabei verpflichtet sich der Bürge, auf einfaches Verlangen des Eigentümers unter einstweiligem...more

Hospitality Trends: 10 Legal Challenges for Companies in 2023

ArentFox Schiff on 1/5/2023

With the start of the new year, the ArentFox Schiff Hospitality Industry team reviews 10 of the most pressing legal issues for hospitality companies in 2023. 1. Potential Down Market Pressures. Interest rate increases are...more

2022’s Top 10 Takeaways For Hospitality Industry

Levenfeld Pearlstein, LLC on 12/9/2022

As 2022 comes to an end, Levenfeld Pearlstein’s Hospitality and Leisure Practice looks back at the year’s top ten highlights in the hospitality industry. Here is what we heard from our clients and other industry leaders about...more

Distressed Hotels in France

BCLP on 10/26/2022

In 2019, the French hospitality industry reached an unprecedented amount of transactions with a total volume of 4.4 billion euros compared to 1.8 billion euros in 2018, which included a large distress transaction completed by...more

Top 10 List – Keep Your Eyes on These California Employment Bills on Governor Newsom’s Desk

Fisher Phillips on 9/2/2022

Eight months of legislative wrangling and dealmaking have come to an end as the California Legislature just wrapped up work for the year – and now employers across the Golden State turn their eyes to the governor’s office to...more

Negotiating Preferred Equity Recognition Rights in Hospitality Deals

Goodwin on 6/20/2022

In recent years, hotel sponsors and developers have increasingly turned to alternative capital sources, like preferred equity, to finance and reposition their existing assets and fund new acquisition and development...more

District Court Upholds New York City Hotel Severance Law

Jackson Lewis P.C. on 4/27/2022

In a decision of great import to the New York City hospitality industry, a federal court has held that a New York City statute mandating payment of severance benefits to certain covered hotel service employees was not...more

The Emperor Has No Clothes: What We Learned About Hotel Brands During the Pandemic

Pillsbury - Gravel2Gavel Construction & Real... on 3/23/2022

Branded hotel managers are not bad people, but they’re sometimes bad managers if profitability is your objective. If you noticed that operating margins improved when brand standards were relaxed during the pandemic, and when...more

Covid-19 - Keine staatliche Entschädigung für pandemiebedingte Betriebsschließungen

Hogan Lovells on 3/21/2022

Der BGH wies mit seinem Urteil vom 17.03.2022, III ZR 79/21 die Klage eines Hotel- und Gastronomiebetreibers auf Zahlung einer staatlichen Entschädigung für die aufgrund der pandemiebedingten angeordneten Betriebsschließung...more

Paid COVID Sick Leave Passes Council, Will Last Until 2023

Cozen O'Connor on 3/11/2022

CITY HALL- Paid COVID Sick Leave Passes Council, Will Last Until 2023 Philadelphia City Council voted last week to pass a paid COVID-19 sick leave requirement for companies with more than 25 employees....more

Mayor Adams To Drop Key to NYC’s Vaccination Requirements

Fox Rothschild LLP on 3/1/2022

Effective March 7, 2022, New York City will lift the Key to NYC mandate requiring that anyone age 5 and older show proof of vaccination to enter indoor dining, fitness, entertainment and certain meeting spaces. Mayor Eric...more

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