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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
New York Legislature Requires Employers to Have Opioid Medicine in First Aid Kits
Businesses Must Include Antagonist among Medical Supplies Under federal law, all employers, regardless of size, must have “adequate” first aid supplies on the premises and readily available to employees. Though many employers need only stock basic first aid supplies,...
Binding Arbitration of Employment Law Disputes in New York
Is It Permitted? Are There Limitations on the Practice? When you have a dispute with an employee, it’s usually in your best interests to avoid a civil dispute, where a jury may sympathize with the little guy. For that reason, you may require your employees to agree to...
New York Law Prohibits Employers from Requiring Criminal History from Applicants
Longstanding Practice Now Banned Requiring Criminal History from Applicants Protect Your Rights as an Employer in New York It’s long been a practice among employers to require that job applicants to check a box indicating whether or not they have a criminal record. In...
New York City Mandates Compliance with Pay Reporting Requirements by Large Employers
Companies with More than 200 Employees Must Submit Annual Pay Data In an effort to promote wage transparency and to determine the potential for pay disparity based on suspect classifications, such as gender, race or age, New York City has enacted a new law that...
New York City Employment Law Amendments Go Into Effect
Changes Made to Earned Safe and Sick Leave and Temporary Schedule Change Acts New York City’s Earned Safe and Sick Time Act (ESSTA) requires that employers provide either paid or unpaid leave to employees so that they can tend to their own healthcare needs, a family...