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
Federal Judge States that Judicial Approval Not Necessary for FLSA Settlements
Author: Hans & Associates, P.C. Typically, when parties would settle their disputes over Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) issues, such as minimum wage and overtime claims, they had to present their settlement agreement to a U.S. District judge for approval. Because...
Keeping up with Regulatory Rulings that Affect the Restaurant Industry
Author: Hans & Associates, P.C. With the plethora of government regulations, restauranteurs caught up in the every day activities of running a restaurant hardly have time to stay apprised of new restaurant industry regulations. Even so, they must know about...
New York ABC Law Compliance
Author: Stephen Hans Queens Queens NY Labor & Employment Lawyer New York Alcohol Beverage Control (ABC) Law makes it illegal for restaurants and bars to serve alcoholic beverages to anyone who is under the age of 21 or who is visibly intoxicated. These are...
Document Abuse vs. Hiring Illegal Aliens
Author: Hans & Associates, P.C. According to a New York Times article quoting the Pew Hispanic Center, about 20 percent of the nearly 2.6 million chefs, head cooks and cooks in the restaurant industry are illegal immigrants. PEW also estimates 28 percent of the...
Complying with Tip Pooling and Tip Credits under the FLSA
Author: Hans Associates: Stephen D. Hans Queens, NY Employment Defense Attorneys The U.S. Department of Labor (DOL) changed its rules about tipped employees when applying the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA). The DOL has provided a fact sheet clarifying how you must...