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December 20 2024
Client Alert: What To Do If ICE Comes to Your Business
If you own or run a business, even if none of your employees are undocumented immigrants, there is a chance that agents from U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) may come to your business looking to inspect your Form I-9’s and search for undocumented immigrants. Employment attorney Paul Rooney provides tips on what to do before, during and after a raid.
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December 10 2024
Client Alert: California Employment Law Changes in January 2025
With the new year fast approaching, we take this opportunity to advise California employers of upcoming legal changes taking effect January 1, 2025.
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December 05 2024
Client Alert: New York State’s Paid Prenatal Leave Law Goes into Effect January 1
New York employers are reminded that Governor Kathy Hochul signed New York’s Paid Prenatal Leave law into effect, providing all New York employees with an entitlement to paid prenatal leave (“PPL”). All New York state private-sector employers, regardless of size, must comply with the new PPL requirements by January 1, 2025.
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December 04 2024
Client Alert: California, Connecticut, Illinois & New Jersey Minimum Wage Increases For 2025
With 2025 upon us, employers with employees working in California, Connecticut, Illinois, New Jersey and beyond must prepare for scheduled minimum wage increases. Please note the following new minimum wage, tip credit and overtime rates.
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December 03 2024
Client Alert: New York Minimum Wage Increases For 2025
With 2025 upon us, New York employers must prepare for scheduled minimum wage increases, tip credit changes, meal credit changes, and increases to the exempt salary threshold. The changes will go into effect on January 1, 2025.
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November 20 2024
Client Alert: Reminder for NYC Restaurants to Remove Roadway Cafe Dining Setups
Restaurants with permitted roadway cafe dining setups must remove the structures by November 30, 2024. Roadway cafe dining setups permitted under the Dining Out NYC program can only operate from April 1 through November 29 each year, so the time for removal is fast approaching. However, permitted sidewalk cafes are allowed to operate year-round and need not be removed.
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November 19 2024
Client Alert: Labor & Employment Law In The First 100 Days Of The New Administration
With the dust settling on the 2024 election results, the news cycle now shifts to the policy initiatives that the second Trump administration will put into place (and in fact are already beginning) as soon as the inauguration is complete. President-elect Trump’s platform contained a number of campaign statements regarding his view on federal labor and employment laws and how his newly appointed administrative officials would go about shaping those laws.
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November 18 2024
Client Alert: Texas Federal Court Strikes Down 2024 Department of Labor Overtime Rule
The U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Texas recently struck down the Department of Labor’s (“DOL”) 2024 rule raising exempt salary thresholds under the Fair Labor Standards Act (“FLSA”). By way of brief background, the 2024 DOL rule raised the minimum salary for overtime exemptions for executive, administrative, and professional (“EAP”) employees and highly compensated employees (“HCE”).
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