Jersey City’s mayor and council have amended the city’s paid sick leave ordinance, expanding the law’s mandates. Originally passed in 2013, the city’s paid sick leave ordinance was the first in New Jersey to require employers to provide mandatory paid sick leave to their full-time ...
On January 1, 2016, New York City’s Affordable Transit Act will go into effect. The Act requires employers with 20 or more full-time employees to offer its employees the opportunity to use pre-tax wages toward certain commuting expenses. The Act defines a full-time employee as one who works ...
New York City’s Fair Chance Act (“FCA”) goes into effect today, October 27, 2015. Under the FCA, most New York City employers with four or more employees are prohibited from inquiring about a job applicant’s criminal background during the employment application process. This new ...
On September 22, 2015, the New Jersey Supreme Court held that when a court determines that an employee breached the duty of loyalty owed to his or her employer, the employer may recover from the employee the amount of his or her salary paid during the periods of disloyalty. In such an instance, the ...
On September 7, 2015, President Obama signed an Executive Order requiring certain federal contractors to provide their employees with paid sick leave. Under the Order, employees working on federal contracts can earn seven paid sick days annually.
The Order guarantees both part- and ...
The City of Jersey City recently enacted an ordinance designed to impose stricter penalties on businesses that engage in wage theft. The wage theft prevention ordinance allows the city to deny or suspend an employer’s Jersey City-issued business license if the employer is found liable of ...
The United States Department of Labor ("DOL") recently proposed rules to amend the Fair Labor Standards Act ("FLSA") in order to create new parameters for determining which employees are eligible for overtime pay. If implemented, these rules would significantly expand the number of ...
Yesterday, the New Jersey Supreme Court expanded employees’ rights to bring whistleblower claims against their employers. In Lippman v. Ethicon, Inc., the court held that the Conscientious Employee Protection Act’s (“CEPA”) protections extend to the performance of regular job ...
New York City Mayor Bill DeBlasio recently signed into law the Fair Chance Act, prohibiting employers from inquiring about a job applicant’s criminal background during the employment application process. As described in last month’s alert, the law is dubbed “ban the box” ...
On June 23, 2015, the New Jersey Supreme Court decided that an employee could be charged with criminal theft and official misconduct for stealing her employer’s documents.
In State v. Saavedra, the New Jersey Supreme Court held that its prior decision in Quinlan v. Curtiss-Wright Corp. – ...