As we remind our readers each year, as year-end approaches, business owners need to remain mindful of their year-end human resources compliance obligations and prepare for upcoming minimum wage increases.
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As of November 13, 2023, all employers in New York are required to inform each employee of their right to file an application for unemployment benefits at the time of a separation from employment, reduction in hours, or any other interruption of continued employment that results in total or partial unemployment.
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On August 1, 2022, the New Jersey Division on Civil Rights (DCR), released updated workplace posters for the New Jersey Law Against Discrimination (NJLAD) and the New Jersey Family Leave Act (NJFLA). The updated posters can be found here and here, respectively. The posters are required to be displayed “in places easily visible” to those the laws protect.
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As we previously posted, New York City will require that any advertisements for jobs that can be performed within the City identify the minimum and maximum salary for that job. This requirement was set to become effective on May 15th, but an amendment to the law has pushed its effective date back to November 1, 2022.
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Starting on May 7, 2022, employers in New York must give written notice to employees, and obtain an acknowledgment of the notice, of any electronic monitoring of telephone, email, internet, or computer usage. This requirement was enacted as part of an amendment to New York’s Civil Rights Law and applies to all employers with places of business in New York.
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As of April 18, 2022, employers in New Jersey that use location tracking technology must provide written notice to employees of the location tracking, in certain circumstances. Specifically, New Jersey law now requires written notice to employees if the employer “knowingly makes use of a tracking device in a vehicle used by an employee.” The notice requirement applies when the device is used “for the sole purpose of tracking the movement of a vehicle, person, or device.”
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As we previously posted, effective May 15, 2022, employers advertising jobs in New York City will be required to post the minimum and maximum salary in the job advertisement. The New York City Commission on Human Rights recently posted its Fact Sheet for this new law. Employers should familiarize themselves with the requirements of the law.
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As we previously posted, New York significantly expanded its employee whistleblower protection law, effective January 26, 2022. As a requirement of the amended law, employers must post a Notice of Employee Rights. The New York Department of Labor has issued the required Notice, which can be found here.
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New York’s whistleblower law was recently amended to significantly expand the protections provided to workers, as well as increase the potential liability of employers for whistleblower claims. The amendment to the law takes effect January 26, 2022.
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As we remind our readers each year, as year end approaches (and we thankfully put 2020 behind us), business owners need to remain mindful of their year-end human resources compliance obligations and prepare for upcoming minimum wage increases.
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With the election upcoming on November 3, 2020, New York employers need to make sure they are complying with their obligations under the New York State Election Law concerning employee time off to vote.
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As readers of this blog are aware, in recent years New Jersey has aggressively pushed to end the misclassification of employees as independent contractors. In January 2020, New Jersey enacted five new laws combating employee misclassification, which we wrote about here. Those laws, among other things, require employers to post a Notice of Employee Rights & Employer Responsibilities (the “Notice”) concerning the misclassification of employees as independent contractors.
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As we previously posted, on March 18, 2020, President Trump signed into law the Families First Coronavirus Response Act, which requires employers with less than 500 employees to provide paid sick leave and paid child care leave for COVID-19 related reasons.
The United States Department of Labor (DOL) has released the Notice of Employee Rights under the Act, which all employers (under 500 employees) must “post” by April 1, 2020. The Notice is required to placed in a conspicuous space in the employer’s premises. However, recognizing that most workers are currently teleworking, the DOL has stated the the emailing or direct mailing of the Notice to employees, or the posting of the notice on an employee information website, satisfies the posting requirement.
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As we remind our readers each year, as year end approaches, business owners need to remain mindful of their year-end human resources compliance obligations and prepare for upcoming minimum wage increases.
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Starting Monday, October 29, 2018, almost all New Jersey employers must start complying with the state's new Earned Sick Leave Law. We had previously written about the law and the proposed regulations.
In anticipation of the law's effective date, the New Jersey Department of Labor and Workforce Development has issued a "Notice of Employee Rights." The Notice can be found here.
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