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August 09 2021
Client Alert: NYC Restaurants with Fewer Than 100 Employees Eligible for Return-to-Work Tax Credit
New York State has launched a $35 million Restaurant Return-to-Work Tax Credit Program which provides an incentive to COVID-19-impacted restaurants to get employees back to work and increase hiring (the “Tax Credit Program”). Qualifying businesses are eligible for a tax credit of up to $5,000 per new worker hired and up to a maximum of $50,000 per business.
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August 03 2021
Client Alert: NYC Will Require Vaccination For Indoor Activities
This morning, Mayor Bill de Blasio announced that New York City will soon require individuals to be vaccinated in order to participate in certain indoor activities.
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July 29 2021
Complimentary Webinar: NY HERO Act – What Employers Need to Know Now
You are cordially invited to join employment lawyers from Ellenoff Grossman & Schole LLP for a complimentary webinar to assist your business in complying with the new NY HERO Act.
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July 28 2021
Client Alert: CDC Revises Mask Guidance for Fully-Vaccinated Individuals
Yesterday, the CDC announced revised mask guidance for fully-vaccinated individuals. The CDC now recommends that fully-vaccinated individuals wear a mask while indoors in public if they are in an area of “substantial” or “high” COVID-19 transmission to both maximize protection from the Delta variant and prevent possibly spreading it to others. The CDC made a state- and county-specific COVID-19 transmission level tracker available here. We note that while most of NYS is in the low to moderate range, NYC and Long Island are presently in the “substantial” category (with Staten Island in the “high” category).
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July 27 2021
Client Alert: Changes to NYC Law on Consideration of Criminal History Effective July 29
Effective July 29, 2021, amendments to the NYC Fair Chance Act (FCA) will expand employment protections for job applicants and employees with criminal histories. Most notably, the amendments expand the FCA’s protection to job applicants and employees with pending arrests and criminal accusations and to existing employees with arrests and criminal convictions during employment, as well as to independent contractors.
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July 21 2021
Client Alert: New NYC Biometric Privacy Law Now in Effect
New York City’s new “Biometric Identifier Information” law (“BII Law”) is now in effect and restricts the collection, use and sale of “biometric identifier information” by businesses in New York City. Biometric identifiers include fingerprints, retina scans, hand print scans, facial recognition, voice identification, or any other physical or biological trait that would serve to identify an individual.
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July 13 2021
Client Alert: NY HERO Act Model Protocols and Prevention Plans Now Available
As detailed in our previous Client Alert, the New York Health and Essential Rights Act (NY HERO Act) mandates that all private sector employers adopt workplace health and safety protections in an effort to protect employees during a future airborne infectious disease outbreak. Specifically, the NY HERO Act requires private sector employers in New York to adopt a health and safety plan to protect employees from exposure to airborne infectious diseases (a “Prevention Plan”).
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July 08 2021
Client Alert: New Protections for NYC Fast Food Workers Now In Effect
As a result of two amendments to the New York City Fair Workweek Law that are now in effect, fast food employers are now prohibited from terminating or substantially reducing the hours of their fast food employees without providing an economic or job performance-related reason. The amendments also impose a progressive discipline requirement and prescribe a procedure for conducting economic-based layoffs or reductions in hours as well as employee recalls.
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