New York Blog — Employment Defense
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Welcome to the NYC Employment Law Blog! This blog is an online publication of Stephen D. Hans & Associates, P.C., a New York City law firm that has been representing small and mid-sized businesses throughout the New York metropolitan area in all types of employment and labor law matters for over thirty years. We hope this blog will be an interesting and informative resource for our readers, whether they are current or past clients, or simply compliance-minded business owners looking for ways to stay up-to-date with the ever-changing employment law landscape. To that end, we will endeavor to offer regular blog posts highlighting legislative developments, significant court and agency decisions and noteworthy news stories from the employment and labor law realm. We hope that as a reader you will find ours blog enlightening, useful and above all, interesting.
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Blogs
Managing Employee Performance after Participation in Protected Actions
Best Practices When Managing an Employee Who Has Requested Leave, Sought Workplace Accommodations or Filed Any Type of Complaint As an employer, it’s imperative that you take timely action when employees are not meeting expectations. However, when you have an...
Minimizing the Risk of a Wage and Hour Claim in New York
Steps You Can Take to Reduce the Likelihood of a Minimum Wage or Overtime Dispute Do you have employees who are receiving minimum wage? Does your business frequently require workers to put in overtime? Do you have both salaried and hourly workers? Do you require...
Amendments to Pay Frequency Mandates for “Manual Workers” in New York
What Employers Need to Know Do you own a company or run a business with employees who spend more than a quarter of their working hours engaged in physical labor? Those workers will likely be categorized as “manual workers” for purposes of New York labor laws. A recent...
Independent Contractors vs. Employees in the Gig Economy
Making the Determination | What’s the Difference? Some workers—musicians, artists, food service industry workers and even construction workers—have embraced what is now called the “gig economy” for decades, working a number of short-term or temporary jobs, rather than...
Fair Labor Standards Act Updates Affect New York Employers
An Overview of Changes to FLSA that Employers Must Follow The Federal Circuit Court for the 9th Circuit recently issued a ruling affecting the rights of employers in Fair Labor Standards Act collections proceedings. In Harrington v. Cracker Barrel, the Circuit Court...