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.
Obscenities alone—even when viewed by an employer's customers—do not deprive employees engaged in protected concerted activity of the NLRA's protections.
On September 10, 2015, the New York Department of Labor issued an order increasing the minimum wage for fast food employees at certain fast food chain restaurants in New York State to $15 per hour.
The New York City Commission on Human Rights has issued interpretive guidance on the city's new law that generally prohibits most employers from using credit information for employment purposes.
The Second Circuit created a federal appellate split when it revived a Dodd-Frank Act retaliation claim by an ex-employee who only reported his claims of accounting fraud internally before he was terminated.
A recent decision by the Second Circuit will likely make it more difficult for parties to enter into private Fair Labor Standards Act settlements in cases pending not only in the Second Circuit, but nationwide.
On July 2, 2015, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit issued two eagerly awaited decisions that may dampen the recent wave of collective and class actions filed by unpaid interns claiming they should be paid employees.
The New York City Council passed a new bill restricting an employer’s ability to inquire into or obtain information about a job applicant’s criminal history before extending a conditional offer of employment.
On April 20, 2015, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit ruled that internal complaints to an employer are now protected from retaliation under the Fair Labor Standards Act.
