There has been a growing movement toward limiting or banning non-compete agreements in various states. On a federal level, the Federal Trade Commission's (FTC) issued a non-compete ban that was stayed by a federal court before it went into effect. New York has not...
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Should doctors worry about noncompetes when starting a practice?
When medical doctors finish their education, they usually have a lot of student debt. In fact, after completing an internship, new medical professionals may have a substantial amount of personal debt related to their cost-of-living expenses. They are often eager to...
New York’s lactation and prenatal leave laws
New York State is implementing measures in protecting the rights of nursing mothers and mothers-to-be. One law went into effect on June 19, 2024, and the other will begin in 2025 and will be the first of its kind in the nation. What do the New Milk Expression Law and...
Steps to take if you’re a victim of workplace discrimination
If you have been discriminated against at your job, it is important to understand how to protect your legal rights moving forward. Any form of workplace discrimination based on certain protected characteristics is unlawful, and you should not hesitate to take the...
Tips for investigating discrimination at your company
If one of your employees makes a discrimination complaint against a senior or a colleague, you should investigate the case to obtain adequate information, no matter how minor the issue may seem. But you should be careful when doing this to avoid potentially costly...
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....
Employer retaliation cases are on the rise
In many ways, the world moves faster these days. However, true data always takes time to collect and analyze. As we enter the second quarter of 2021, we are beginning to see 2020 trends in numerical form. For employers, this includes figures from the Equal Employment...
Medical professionals face constant litigation risks
Although virtually every occupational group has standards and performance expectations that spotlight worker outcomes and accountability, those thresholds vary from company to company. A few select industries stand apart when it comes to the exacting regulatory...
