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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
Governor Cuomo Signs the Bill for Minimum Wage Hikes in New York
Bill signed for Minimum Wage Hikes in New York As far as increasing the minimum wage to $15 an hour, New York State and California are in lockstep. Both governors signed bills on April 4. 2016. New York’s bill is very detailed and the following are some the ways...
Are You Liable When You Guarantee Privacy Rights to an Employee and Then Violate Your Own Policy?
Employers typically let their employees know about company policies through memos, employee handbooks or union contracts. When the company promises workers it will notify them about a certain type of monitoring, then it is legally bound to do so. Exceptions include...
Is It Legal For Employers to Monitor Employees by Using Videos?
Video Monitoring Legal? Video cameras provide security for companies against theft, whether theft involving employees, burglaries or robberies. They also allow companies to monitor their employees’ performance. Banks are a good example of businesses that have a high...
Can Employers Use a GPS to Keep Track of Employees’ Whereabouts?
The answer to this question is: it depends on the circumstances. GPS tracking and privacy rights are still an emerging area of case law. In some cases, GPS tracking has been challenged as a violation of the individual’s Fourth Amendment Rights against search and...
University Policies to Deal with Sexual Harassment Issues
Recently, a sexual harassment case involving a Chicago professor became high profile in the news. While you can view the case from the perspective of the victim and the alleged abuser, there is also the viewpoint of educational institutions to consider. What...