Showing 35 posts from 2023.

Amendment to New York State Labor Law Requires Employers to Display a Veterans Benefits and Services Poster

April 12, 2023 by Jason S. Greenfield

On January 1, 2023, an amendment to the New York State Labor Law went into effect, requiring all employers in the state who have fifty or more full-time employees to display a Veterans Benefits and Services Poster in a conspicuous place accessible to employees in the workplace. The poster include the following information regarding veteran services: More ›

Amendment to the New York HERO Act Requires Employers to Recognize Joint Labor-Management Workplace Safety Committees

March 7, 2023 by Jason S. Greenfield

On December 28, 2022, New York Governor Kathy Hochul signed legislation amending the New York Health and Essential Rights Act (HERO Act). The HERO Act was signed into law on May 5, 2021 in response to the COVID-19 pandemic, and was designed to protect private sector employees against exposure and disease during a future airborne infectious disease outbreak. More ›

SCOTUS Decision Shows that Highly-Compensated Employees Can Still Be Eligible for Overtime Pay

March 1, 2023 by Hinshaw & Culbertson LLP

A recently decided case by the U.S. Supreme Court shows that even highly-compensated employees can be mislabeled as overtime-exempt under the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA). On February 22, 2023, the Supreme Court addressed this very matter in its decision in Helix Energy Solutions Group, Inc. v. Hewitt. More ›

NLRB Decision that Broadly-Worded Confidentiality Provisions in Separation Agreements are Unlawful Raises Important Questions

February 24, 2023 by Tom H. Luetkemeyer

The National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) recently issued a controversial decision concerning the use of non-disparagement and confidentiality provisions by employers in separation agreements. In McLaren Macomb and Local 40, RN Staff Council Office and Professional Employees International Union, AFL-CIO (Case 07-CA-263041), the NLRB found that including broadly-worded non-disparagement and confidentiality provisions in a separation agreement was unlawful, notwithstanding the lack of an intent to chill or limit the exercise of Section 7 rights of employees under the National Labor Relations Act (the Act). More ›

New York State Employers Must Provide Digital Copies Of Workplace Posters

January 26, 2023 by Jason S. Greenfield

On December 16, 2022, Governor Kathy Hochul signed into law an amendment to Section 201 of the New York Labor Law. Previously, Section 201 had required that employers post certain rules and orders furnished by the Commissioner of Labor of the State of New York in conspicuous places on each floor of the employer’s premises. More ›

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