Kerri Beatty

Effective January 1, 2025, New York employees are permitted to file for workers’ compensation benefits for mental health injuries. Specifically, the New York’s Workers’ Compensation Law has been revised to allow any worker to file for workers’ compensation for specific types of mental injury premised on extraordinary work-related stress and provides that the Workers’ Compensation … Read more

Minimum Wage Increases In 2023, New York State Governor Kathy Hochul signed legislation which would increase the minimum wage rates over a three-year period.  Effective January 1, 2025, the minimum wage for New York City, Westchester and Long Island will increase to $16.50/hour.  In 2026, it will further increase to $17.00/hour. For the rest of … Read more

As we previously reported, in April 2024, the U.S. Department of Labor published a final rule that would have raised the minimum salary threshold to qualify for the executive, administrative, or professional exemptions from overtime under the Fair Labor Standards Act (“FLSA”).  The final rule would also have increased the salary requirements for the highly … Read more