Takeaways Archive - Levy Employment Law

Summer/Fall 2024

Court decisions dominate employment law changes in Q2/Q3 2024, including Supreme Court decisions impacting federal agency actions, Connecticut courts defining parameters of state law discrimination claims, and New Jersey courts considering non-dis... Read More..

Spring 2024

New court decisions impact the standard for evaluating claims of discrimination and retaliation, hold back federal regulatory changes on who is an employer, substantively address employers’ ability to monitor their employees and act on behaviors t... Read More..

Winter 2024

New York law keeps changing rapidly, with new protections for freelancers, employees’ intellectual property, and sealing criminal records, plus rules on settlement agreements and enforcement of paid sick leave. New York and New Jersey employers ... Read More..

Fall 2023

New NYC regulations on paid sick and safe time, a plethora of laws coming out of New York State, clarifying guidance from New Jersey, and a series of NLRB decisions that each overturn recent past precedent in ways that are more favorable for emplo... Read More..

Summer 2023

Major employment decisions from the Supreme Court lead the legal developments this past quarter, with an extra-long issue to capture wage law changes in New York, obligations related to employees who express breast milk at work, new categories of ... Read More..

Spring 2023

Covered in this issue are new protections of select non-exempt workers in New York and New Jersey, continued regulation of AI in hiring NYC employees, updates to New York’s model harassment prevention materials, new FMLA decisions from the US DOL,... Read More..

Winter 2023

New York State has new laws on pay transparency, lactation accommodations, employee time off, new protected classes, workplace postings, warehouse workers and human trafficking. In addition to that whirlwind of new legislation, the federal govern... Read More..

Fall 2022

Developments this past quarter include shifting federal discrimination protections and expanded protections in Connecticut; new employer obligations in New Jersey and updated federal workplace posters; the unwinding of COVID mandates and a survey ... Read More..

Summer 2022

Pay transparency predominates in New York, while employer speech is being regulated in Connecticut. Recent New Jersey court decisions have addressed employee speech, and the Supreme Court has ruled on waiver of arbitration and federal contractors... Read More..