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New York City has recently amended the law which requires employers to provide lactation accommodations to employees.  Under the current law, employers must provide a lactation room where employees can pump/express breast milk, and reasonable time to pump/express breast milk.  Employers are also required to have a written lactation policy that meets certain requirements under the law and … Read more

As you may be aware, since his inauguration, President Trump has already issued a flurry of executive orders and has rescinded numerous Biden-era orders.  One of the main areas of focus during Trump’s campaign was immigration reform and as expected, on January 20th and 21st, 2025, President Trump declared a national emergency and issued several executive … Read more

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