by author | Sep 12, 2019 | Author: Stephen D. Hans
The New NY Anti-Sexual Harassment Law: What Employers Should Know Additional New York State anti-sexual harassment law protections came into existence in August 2019. Under the new law, sexual harassment only has to rise above the level of “petty slights or trivial...
by author | Aug 22, 2019 | Author: Stephen D. Hans
Important Reasons for Employers to Avoid Retaliation Retaliation in the workplace is unlawful. Therefore, as a business owner it is important to understand what it is and to avoid it. Employers violate the law if they retaliate against an employee who has engaged in...
by author | Aug 15, 2019 | Author: Stephen D. Hans
The Underlying Causes of FRD Lawsuits Statistics show that Family Responsibilities Discrimination (FRD) lawsuits are on the rise. This means that courts are seeing an increase in lawsuits brought against employers by caregivers. Caregivers include single parents,...
by author | Jul 23, 2019 | Author: Stephen D. Hans
The NY State Legislature Passed an Election Law Time off to vote for employees was part of the legislation that the NY State Legislature passed in April of 2019. The name of the law is the New York State Election Law and it went into effect immediately. What Does the...
by author | Jul 17, 2019 | Author: Stephen D. Hans
Working off the clock can be problematic for an employer. One reason is that time clocks or time sheets exist to document an employee’s work hours. When workers do not punch in, the book keeping of hours worked becomes nebulous. However, aside from that, employees can...
by author | Jun 27, 2019 | Author: Stephen D. Hans
How Fissuring Is Changing the Work Environment Fissuring in the workplace is a relatively new term. You may have heard about fissuring, a term coined by David Weil. He and Tanya Goldman in the article “Labor Standards, the Fissured Workplace and the On-Demand Economy”...
