New York Blog — Employment Defense
Labor and Employment Defense
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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Stephen D. Hans & Associates, P.C.
Blogs
Determining the More Subtle Instances of Age Discrimination
As an employer, it is important to consider what types of hiring process errors can lead to age discrimination lawsuits. Does the candidate need to overhear the hiring manager say the company wants to hire someone younger? Or hear the recruiter say someone is too old...
What Is the Professional Exception to Employment At-Will Termination?
As described in our earlier blog article, there are exceptions to at-will employment terminations, making them unlawful, and termination based on discrimination is one of them. Another unlawful reason for termination under New York case law is the professional...
ACA and the Problems with a 30 Hour Work Week
Author: Stephen D.Hans Juggling compliance with the Affordable Care Act (ACA) and profitability is a problem many employers in the restaurant industry face today. Under the ACA, companies with 50 or more full-time employees must either pay for their full-time...
What Employers Should Understand about Disability Discrimination
Author: Stephen Hans Business owners typically look from an employer's perspective and fire employees who cannot do the job. For the most part, this line of reasoning is valid and especially if you have at-will employment, where the employer has the right to terminate...
Importance of Educating Your Managers about Religious Discrimination Laws
Restaurant owners must ensure their managers understand employment laws and put policies in place that protect their business against discrimination lawsuits. Providing a non-hostile work environment to employees is an essential guarantee of their civil rights....