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
Sexual Harassment in the News-Queens New York Employment Law Blog
Author: Hans & Associates, P.C. As GOP candidate hopeful Herman Cain’s recent ratings dropped, presumably based on reports of sexual harassment settlements, workplace harassment came once again under the microscope of the public eye. According to the Washington...
Challenges that the NY Restaurant Industry Faces
Author: Hans & Associates, P.C. New York restaurant owners are subject to numerous NY statutes that regulate minimum wages, tip allowances, overtime work, uniforms, meal allowances and rates for spread of hours (days exceeding 10 work hours). With the passage of...
New York Wage Theft Prevention Act: Effect on Small Businesses
Author: Hans & Associates, P.C. Corporate corruption that denied low-wage workers their rightful pay led to passage of the New York Wage Theft Prevention Act, which became a law in December 2010 and went into effect on April 1, 2011. Current unemployment rates,...
Battle Continues to Rage Over Proposed NLRB Election Rules Changes
The National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) will vote tomorrow, November 30, 2011, on whether to adopt certain proposed changes to its election procedures.. These changes, initially proposed over the summer, include a controversial proposal to shorten the amount of time...
Wage & Hour Violations Haunt NY Restaurants
Author: Stephen D. Hans & Associates Between wage and hour lawsuits filed by the federal government and those filed by plaintiff’s employment law attorneys, the New York restaurant industry has been hard hit with legal conflicts and costly settlements in 2011. Are...