On February 18, 2019, the New York City Commission on Human Rights released enforcement guidance about discrimination based on hair. “Hair discrimination” is not per se illegal under either New York State or New York City law. However, this guidance notes that race discrimination, especially anti-black discrimination, takes many explicit and implicit forms. Thus, the … Read more
New York is an at-will employment state, which theoretically means employers can terminate employees for any reason at any time. However, there are statutory exceptions. These include whistleblower laws intended to encourage employees to report wrongdoing and protect whistleblowers from retaliation. What Is a Whistleblower? The origins of the term “whistleblower” date back to the … Read more
Does your human resources department deal with love contracts? If you think this is a crazy question, then you probably haven’t gone down this road before. But these are real legal documents that some companies use when co-workers become involved in romantic relationships. Love contracts (or office relationship contracts) have never been overly commonplace. And … Read more