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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
Are Your Employees Trained to Prevent Sexual Harassment?
Sexual harassment is a form of discrimination. It’s one thing to understand that managers and other employees in your business must not discriminate and to establish good business practices that prohibit discrimination. It’s a whole different challenge to train...
What Does the 2016 Minimum Wage Hike Mean for You as an Employer?
A minimum wage increase of $8.75 to $9.00 went into effect in New York on December 31, 2015. For employers, it obviously means you must pay higher wages to all employees who were receiving minimum wages. However, that’s not the only factor you must consider. The New...
Start Off the New Year with Your HR Guidelines in Place
NY Employment Defense Attorneys for HR Guidelines As the saying goes, “A little prevention can go a long ways.” You can often avoid employee lawsuits alleging discrimination or wage and hour law violations by having strong Human Resources (HR) policies in place. You...
What Should HR Reps and Employers Know About Pregnant Workers?
Pregnancy Discrimination: New York City & Queens Labor & Employment Attorneys Is it a good idea to ask a job applicant whether or not she is pregnant? No. As long as a pregnant woman has the job qualifications to do the work, pregnancy is irrelevant. If you...
Million Dollar Legal Mistakes by a Billion Dollar Company
Even billion dollar companies can allow legal mistakes to occur and have it cost them millions of dollars. Such appears to be the case when executives at Giorgio Armani allegedly discriminated against the company’s own general counsel, Fabio Silva. The NY Daily News...