New Legal Protections for New York Warehouse Workers
New York Warehouse Workers Get More Legal Protections In December 2022, New York passed a new law giving additional legal protections to workers in warehouses and distribution/fulfillment [...]
Workers in New York City Protected from Hiring Biases
Artificial Intelligence Hiring Biases in New York City Workers in New York City have a new way to fight hiring biases. Over the last decade and more, employers have been using artificial [...]
Wage Theft Law for New York Construction Workers goes into Effect
As we wrote about here, last year, New York state added significant wage theft protections for New York construction workers. Wage theft is common in the restaurant and hospitality industries. [...]
Wage Theft: Workers Recover $1 Billion a Year of Stolen Wages
Wage Theft is Big Business for Employers As reported here by Forbes, the Economic Policy Institute reported the result of a study showing that, from 2017 to 2020, workers were able to recover $3 [...]
Wage Fixing is Anticompetitive
Texas Court Says Wage Fixing is a Crime In another huge victory for workers, a federal court sitting in Texas has recently held that wage-fixing is a violation of federal antitrust laws and that [...]
No-Hire Agreements are not Enforceable
Pennsylvania Invalidates “No-Hire” Agreement In another win for employees, the Pennsylvania Supreme Court recently struck down a “no-hire” agreement between two unrelated [...]
Federal vs State Labor Laws
Federal Labor Laws vs State Labor Laws and Why the Difference Matters Protecting the legal rights of employees is complicated. One of the biggest complexities involves the overlap of federal [...]
Connecticut Joins the Right of Recall Movement
There is a trend in pro-employee legal protections emerging in states across the nation. Among these emerging protections are laws under the Right of Recall movement. In brief, when new [...]
Texas Expands Sexual Harassment Laws
New Sexual Harassment Laws The Texas Legislature has recently passed two laws modifying and enhancing protections for workers with respect to sexual harassment in the workplace. The new laws are [...]
Worker Privacy Rights: Biometrics
Beyond the right to be paid and paid fairly, workers have many other rights that are provided and protected by statutes, regulations, and court precedent. For example, under safety statutes and [...]
