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New York State minimum wage increases and New York City’s paid sick days requirements

  • Schulte Roth & Zabel LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • May 14 2013

Two recently passed laws will soon impact New York State and New York City employers. The first law involves an increase in New York State's minimum

Unemployed persons: a new protected class in NYC

  • Schulte Roth & Zabel LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • April 4 2013

The New York City Council enacted, over Mayor Michael Bloomberg's veto, legislation that will amend the New York City Human Rights Law (the "NYCHRL"

New poster and forms for US employers

  • Schulte Roth & Zabel LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • March 19 2013

The U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services ("USCIS") released a new Employment Eligibility Verification Form I-9.1 Form I-9 is used for

IRS broadens program for re-classification of independent contractors as employees

  • Schulte Roth & Zabel LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • January 14 2013

Employer misclassification of employees as independent contractors can be a costly mistake with many ramifications, including, but not limited to

New requirements for employers’ background checks and social security number usage

  • Schulte Roth & Zabel LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • December 3 2012

Under the Fair Credit Reporting Act (the “FCRA”), an employer that plans to make an employment decision adverse to a prospective or current employee based at least in part on information contained in a “consumer report” (which includes background checks performed by third parties) must provide that employee or applicant with a notice that includes a summary of consumer rights before taking the contemplated adverse action

New York expands permissible employee wage deductions

  • Schulte Roth & Zabel LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • September 11 2012

Amendments to Section 193 of the New York Labor Law (“Section 193”) that expand permissible employee wage deductions were signed into law by Governor Cuomo on Sept. 7, 2012 and are effective sixty (60) days from the signing (the “Effective Date”

EEOC issues new guidance regarding applicants and employees with criminal records

  • Schulte Roth & Zabel LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • June 12 2012

New guidance from the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission ("EEOC") provides that employment decisions based on criminal history may constitute employment discrimination and suggests that employers eliminate policies or practices that generally exclude people from employment based on criminal records

Non-compete developments

  • Schulte Roth & Zabel LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • January 27 2012

In this time of technological advances, rapidly moving information and economic difficulties, employers increasingly are turning to non-competition agreements to protect their businesses

Employers beware: broad protections of employees’ social media posts

  • Schulte Roth & Zabel LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • January 27 2012

Within the past year alone, almost 100 complaints implicating social media have been filed with the National Labor Relations Board

IRS launches new Voluntary Classification Settlement Program

  • Schulte Roth & Zabel LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • November 23 2011

The Internal Revenue Service recently announced the Voluntary Classification Settlement Program, a new program available to businesses, tax-exempt organizations, and government entities that are erroneously treating workers as non-employees or independent contractors

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