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
Stephen D. Hans, Employment Defense Attorney–Employee’s Social Media Passwords
Author: Stephen D. Hans Legal Risk Involved with Asking for an Employee’s Facebook Account Information The latest slippery slope for the law and social media is whether employers have the right to ask employees or job candidates for their Facebook or Twitter account...
The Pendulum Swings on NY Theft Protection Act Requirements
Author: Stephen D. Hans Now that the Theft Protection Act has gone into effect, legislators realize that wage notices place a burden on business owners and workers. In an effort to restore the right regulatory balance, actions are in motion for repeal. Assemblyman...
Legal Implications of Leaving a Company and Taking Your Twitter Followers with You
Author: Stephen D. Hans, Hans & Associates, P.C. As Facebook, Twitter, and LinkedIn become integrated with doing business, companies and employees need to think about legal implications. Is your activity on a Twitter account proprietary to the company? Can a...
Social Media: Still an Area of Emerging Case Law
Author: Hans & Associates, P.C. Courts continue to draw lines in employer-employee social media cases, defining which communications are protected under labor law and which are fair game for terminating employees. Business Management Daily recently reported a...
Right to Work vs. Unions Move into the Spotlight as Election Issues
Author: Hans & Associates Long Island City, New York City Employment Defense Attorneys As jobs and the economy become driving concerns for the country, a number of states involved in right to work issues also are grabbing American’s attention. Indiana became a...