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Governor Hochul released the 2025 Fiscal Year Proposed Budget Bill which includes a provision that would put an end to the State’s COVID-19 Sick Leave Law. According to the Governor’s briefing book, “legislation submitted with the Budget sunsets the law which required employers to provide sick leave and other benefits for employees subject to a […]
Effective January 1, 2024, the U.S. Department of Labor issued a final rule that requires certain employers in designated high-hazard industries to electronically submit injury and illness information that they are already required to keep to the department’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration. Specifically, establishments with 100 or more employees in certain high-hazard industries must […]
Effective January 1, 2024, the Corporate Transparency Act (the “CTA”) requires every corporation, LLC, or other entity created by the filing of a document with a Secretary of State to file a report disclosing information regarding its beneficial owners to the Treasury Department’s Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (“FinCEN”). Those businesses created in the United States […]
The New York City Council recently amended the New York City Earned Safe and Sick Time Act (“ESSTA”), to create a private right of action for employees claiming violations of ESSTA. Employees will have two years from the date they first knew or should have known about the alleged violation to file a lawsuit. The […]
As we are all aware, New York State issued an order implementing the New York State COVID-19 Leave Law, providing job-protected leave for employees who are subject to a mandatory or precautionary order of quarantine or isolation due to COVID-19. While the pandemic seems like a thing of the past, the New York State COVID-19 […]
Beginning July 1, 2024, New York City employers will be required to post and distribute a Workers’ Bill of Rights which would contain information on the rights and protections under federal, state, and local laws that apply to all workers in the City, regardless of immigration status. The Department of Consumer and Worker Protection (DCWP), […]
Effective January 1, 2024, the New York State salary threshold for exempt executive and administrative employees is as follows: $1,200.00/week ($62,400.00/year) $1,124.20/week ($58,458.40/year) Employers will have to increase the salary of executive and administrative employees accordingly to continue to treat them as exempt from overtime under New York State law. Note, professional employees are not […]
As you are aware, New York State Paid Family Leave was implemented in 2018 and provides eligible employees with up to 12 weeks of job protected, paid time off to bond with a new child, care for a family member with a serious health condition, or to assist loved ones when a family member is […]
As we previously reported, New York State Governor Kathy Hochul signed the New York State 2024 Budget Agreement into law, which contained increases to the State’s minimum wage rates. Effective January 1, 2024, the minimum wage will increase incrementally over the next few years based on the region where employees work as follows: For […]
On November 30, 2023, Governor Kathy Hochul announced that she would not be signing proposed legislation that would prohibit employee non-compete agreements in New York. As we previously reported, on June 7, 2023, the New York State Senate passed Bill No. S03100 (the “Bill”), which would amend the New York Labor Law to ban the […]
On November 17, 2023, Governor Kathy Hochul signed legislation that extends the statute of limitations for claims resulting from unlawful discriminatory practices from one to three years. As you may recall, starting on August 12, 2020, the statute of limitations for filing a sexual harassment complaint in New York State was extended from one year […]
As previously reported, New York City passed legislation amending the New York City Human Rights Law (“NYCHRL”) to prohibit discrimination on the basis of height and weight. The law became effective November 22, 2023. The new law amends the NYCHRL to include height and weight as protected categories and New York City employers will be […]
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