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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
Can you criticize an employee without allegations of discrimination?
Given recent rulings by the Supreme Court and several new laws relating to gay marriage and gay rights throughout individual states, employers need to be very careful about how they approach matters with gay employees. Was it his lifestyle or his performance as an...
Employment Defense Attorney-Don’t make your company a target
Most people are familiar with the recent credit card fiasco that occurred with Target at the height of the Christmas retail season. According to statements made on Target’s website, high-tech hackers installed malware (malicious software designed to harm computers...
Defending a sexual harassment case
Sexual harassment is discrimination that occurs in the workplace as defined by Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. In terms of employment law the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) defines sexual harassment as: “Unwelcome sexual advances, requests...
Employment Discrimination Law – Frequently Asked Questions
Both federal and state laws prohibit discrimination on the part of employers. Should you, your employees, managers or other agents of your company discriminate against an employee or in some cases, a prospective employee, you risk legal liability. Following are...
Are you opening yourself up to an age discrimination case?
Just last month, the Chief Operating Officer for real estate giant, Cushman & Wakefield filed a $20 million dollar age and gender discrimination lawsuit. The COO, Suzy Reingold, alleges that she was denied the job of tri-state president, despite 15 years of...