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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Blogs
What you say to an employee can cost you money
Author: Stephen D. Hans A New York jury awarded $30,000 in punitive damages and $250,000 in compensatory damage to an employee in an employer discrimination case that centered around the use of the N-word. Brandi Johnson, an African-American, filed a lawsuit in New...
Discrimination lawsuits can cost your company millions
In February 2011 a former healthcare director at MSL, Monique da Silva Moore, filed a $100 million class action gender discrimination suit against the company. The suit alleges that MSL and parent company Publicis: • Paid female execs less • Did not promote women...
Supreme Court Ruling puts limits on employer liability in harassment cases
In Vance v. Ball State University, the Supreme Court considered the definition of supervisor to determine employers’ liability for workplace harassment . At the heart of the case was the issue of whether a supervisor was an employee with authority to direct and...
Obama NLRB Appointments Overturned by 3rd Appeals Court
On July 17th the U.S. Court of Appeals in Richmond, VA became the third court to rule that President Obama’s recess appointments of National Labor Review Board members last year was unlawful.In the majority opinion, Circuit Judge Clyde Hamilton wrote: “We conclude...
How the Supreme Court’s Decision on DOMA Affects Employers
On June 26th the Supreme Court ruled that DOMA's exclusion of state-sanctioned, same-sex marriages from the federal definition of marriage is unconstitutional in United States v. Windsor. This decision has now changed the rules on how employers administer health and...