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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
What Business Practices Help Protect You Against Discrimination Claims?
Business savvy employers figure out how to create workplace diversity and put best practices in place to avoid discrimination claims.
Ironically, the type of discrimination that showed the highest percentage of claims was retaliation, according to thebalance.com in a 2016 article. This is ironic because businesses should be busy handling discrimination claims not exacerbating them through retaliation. Fortunately, we can provide you with some guidelines that help you deal effectively with complaints and protect your business.
Anti-Discrimination Steps to Take
As an employer, you should establish policy, provide training and document your actions.
More About Women’s Rights in the News — the ERA
As an employment defense litigation lawyer, I pay attention to civil rights issues, and lately women’s rights issues have gained attention from the media.
Actress Patricia Arquette has actively worked toward passing the Equal Rights Amendment (ERA), notable in her Oscar acceptance speech in 2015 and also in her recent testimony in June 2016 at a DNC Platform Committee hearing in Phoenix. There she urged the party to make ERA a priority. Even more recently, her letter to the editor appeared in The New York Times in support of the ERA.
Arquette is quoted as saying, “All of the things we want for women, including equal pay and effective legal recourse for gender-based violence, are in the ERA.” Arquette says, “… Polling shows the country is with us—we need Congress to catch up.”
Equal Pay for Women Issues
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From an employer’s standpoint, if you are following similar pay practices to other businesses, it may seem like safety exists in numbers. You may believe that perhaps doing what other companies do is a safe standard as far as equal pay for women issues are concerned.
Facts about Unequal Pay
New York City Affirms Rights to Use Bathrooms Consistent with Gender Identity
Media outlets across the country are addressing controversial laws passed recently in certain states that prohibit transgender individuals from using bathrooms consistent with their identity. New state laws require them to use a restroom consistent with the sexual identity on their birth certificates.
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McDonald’s in Arkansas Sued for Disability Discrimination
The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) continues to pursue companies that violate the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA).
Matthews Management Company in Arkansas owns 34 McDonald’s restaurant franchises. It operates all of the McDonald’s restaurants in Northwest Arkansas, including some restaurants in nearby areas of Oklahoma and Missouri.