New York Blog — Employment Defense
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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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Stephen D. Hans & Associates, P.C.
Blogs
NYC Outlaws Discrimination Based on Unemployment
A new law that amended the New York City Human Rights law to prohibit discrimination based on employment status is now in effect. Despite Mayor Bloomberg’s veto, the New York City Council passed the amendment and in effect has made the unemployed in NYC a protected...
Warning Employers: New Equality Laws Coming Down the Pike
Early in April of this year, a multitude of corruption and sexual harassment scandals erupted out of our state capital. I applaud those bringing the offenders to justice as those who prey on others and break the law should be punished. However, as a result of these...
Sex discrimination can haunt you long after the fact
Julie Hermann, who was recently hired by Rutgers University to forge a new path for their athletics program has become the center of a storm which could turn out to be yet another Rutgers controversy. The issue is two-fold: Accusations of her misconduct in a coaching...
What you can learn from Quest about job discrimination
On May 9, 2013 New York’s Attorney General gave Quest Diagnostics, a serious slap on the hands. The medical diagnostic company was found in violation of New York civil rights laws because it was discovered that Quest sometimes rejected applicants based on criminal...
Hold on to your hats employers: Unemployment discrimination becomes illegal in New York City
As of, June 11, 2013, a new law went into effect that makes discriminating against job applicants because they are unemployed a violation of human rights. Violations of this law will be punished the same way that discriminating against job applicants based on race,...