It may be true that some business growth is luck – being in the right place at the right time. But the majority of lasting businesses are built on a firm foundation with a governance structure, clear goals and a defined growth strategy. All of these items are subject...
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Center for Public Integrity: USPS has been shorting workers’ pay
Every time Nancy C. filled out her time sheet for the United States Postal Service, she would take a picture of it with her phone. “I knew what was going to happen,” she told a reporter from the Center for Public Integrity (CPI), “because it happens every pay period.”...
Medical malpractice claims are trending upwards in 2021
With all the stresses healthcare providers and hospitals have been under during the pandemic, it may not come as a complete surprise that medical malpractice claims are on the increase. The entire field of healthcare has been facing unprecedented levels of need during...
Washington takes a closer look at noncompetes
Noncompete agreements are a divisive topic, with opinions often differing between business owners and employees. Employers argue that these contracts protect intellectual property and trade secrets, while opponents argue that they limit job growth and opportunity. We...
NY employers will want to note this arbitration-pact legislation
New York business owners necessarily maintain a constant and broad-based focus on problematic – both potential and actual – labor-tied challenges arising in their enterprises. And for good reason. Problems on the employment front occasionally surface in every company....
What’s going on with NY’s cannabis legalization plan?
The legions of reports and commentaries that have persistently issued over the past couple years on New York’s high-profile cannabis legalization program have varied in their details. But they have routinely coalesced around these few core points: The plan is...
Some takeaways from a seminal NY employment law
A lot of states have protective legislation that augments parallel federal laws in their safeguarding of employees’ workplace rights. Few have statutory provisions that are as entrenched and extensive as those that exist in the New York State Human Rights Law, though....
Could this pro-worker law gain national traction?
U.S. business laws and customary practices generally track those that feature in other developed countries in many respects. But not all. One notable exception is the long-entrenched at-will labor law standard. In a nutshell, at-will employment means this: Company...
Key facts concerning New York’s small business relief program
It was unquestionably a big deal when it first came to public light back in March. New York’s so-called Pandemic Small Business Recovery Grant Program was formally launched that month as part of the state’s executive budget enacted for this year and 2022. We...
ADA: A labor law acronym that many New York employers need to note
Labor and employment issues affect businesses on a near daily basis. Virtually every New York company principal intimately knows that. It is largely true regardless of the size of an enterprise or the market it competes in. This is true too: Company matters involving...
