Photo by Gabrielle Henderson on Unsplash When the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) was introduced as governing law, President Franklin D. Roosevelt described the policy as “A fair day’s pay for a fair day’s work.” The idea behind the law is fairness – but what does...
Photo by James Coleman on Unsplash Dear Community Members, Last week, I was contacted by a client who was a high performing sales employee at a major beauty line retailer before having to resign due to grossly hostile behavior she had experienced from an upper level...
Photo by Jason Leung on Unsplash At the heart of wage and hour disputes is one simple idea: Fairness. You don’t need a research study to know that New Yorkers rank amongst the hardest workers in the country. But studies have confirmed that the average New Yorker’s...
Photo by Fusion Medical Animation on Unsplash As discussed, and outlined in our previous Client Alert Memorandums, both New York State and the federal government have enacted sweeping and expanded relief and benefit programs for individuals and businesses across the...
Photo by CDC on Unsplash January 21, 2020 is a date the history books will surely remember: this was the day that the United States confirmed its first case of the novel coronavirus COVID-19. And once again this week, two months after that fateful first case of...
Photo by Viktor Forgacs™️ on Unsplash On March 1, 2020, New York state saw its first confirmed case of the virus that is currently tearing across our nation: COVID-19. Since then, New York has seen its number of confirmed cases double with each new day,...
