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. [...]
New York Gig Worker Protection Law
New York City Passes Gig Worker Protection Laws On September 23, 2021, New York City passed a package of city laws aimed at protecting the City’s “gig economy” workers, [...]
New York Construction Workers
New York Passes Wage Theft Protections for Construction Workers New York recently enacted a new wage theft law aimed at enhancing protections for construction workers. See the news report here. [...]
New York City Enacts “Just Cause” Termination Ordinance for Fast-Food Workers
New York City “Just Cause” Termination In mid-December 2020, the New York City Council passed a city ordinance protecting fast-food workers from being fired without cause. See news [...]
Predictive Scheduling Laws
Predictive Scheduling Laws are Good for Employees Chicago’s predictive scheduling ordinance went into effect on July 1, 2020. Chicago was the latest large city to enact such legislation. So [...]
New York City Changes Tip Laws
Currently, most staff who work in places where tips are provided, pool their tips and distribute the tip pool to other employees. Also, part of these tips include credit card tips left by [...]
