Employment & Labor


Wendy and Jen Wreck the Movies: ‘Willy Wonka’ (1971) or You Got Your Kid in My Chocolate
January 30, 2024 | Jennifer F. Hillman | Wendy Hoey Sheinberg | Compliance, Investigations & White Collar | Corporate | Employment & Labor | Immigration

What Happened

Come on, you know what happened, right?

For those denied the joy of Roald Dahl and his take on bad parents, here is an overview.

Willy Wonka, the owner of Wonka’s Chocolates, is a unique and secretive chocolatier. Wonka’s Chocolates has one factory. Unlike other factories, no workers or visitors are seen entering

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The Employment Law Reporter: Winter 2024
January 8, 2024 | Kenneth A. Novikoff | Employment & Labor

Here is what we cover in this issue of The Employment Law Reporter:

  • A federal district court in New York has dismissed employment discrimination claims brought under the Age Discrimination in Employment Act of 1967 and Title I of the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990, finding that the plaintiff failed to meet the
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Novikoff’s Summer 2023 Employment Law Reporter Published in Employee Relations Law Journal
October 26, 2023 | Employment & Labor

Kenneth A. Novikoff’s Summer issue of the Employment Law Reporter was published in the Employee Relations Law Journal Summer 2023.

This column discusses a number of recent employment discrimination cases and cases involving complaints stemming from non-competition discrimination agreements. All of the decisions analyzed in this column are by New York courts – federal and

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The Employment Law Reporter: Autumn 2023
September 28, 2023 | Employment & Labor

Here is what we cover in this issue of Employment Law Reporter Autumn 2023:

  • The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit has affirmed a decision by the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York dismissing a plaintiff’s employment discrimination and defamation claims arising from her termination.
  • The U.S. District
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Furshpan Co-Authors Recent Developments in Employment and Labor Law
September 27, 2023 | Daniel E. Furshpan | Employment & Labor

Daniel Furshpan co-authored the article “Recent Developments in Employment and Labor Law,” published in the Tort Trial & Insurance Practice Law Journal, a publication of the American Bar Association.

Click here to read the full article.

©2023. Published in Tort Trial & Insurance Practice Law Journal, Vol. 58, No. 2, Summer 2023, by the American Bar Association.

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The Employment Law Reporter
July 5, 2023 | Kenneth A. Novikoff | Employment & Labor

Here is what we cover in this issue of The Employment Law Reporter:

  • A New York trial court has ruled that the purchaser of a medical practice could not enforce a noncompete provision contained in the purchase agreement after the purchaser breached the agreement by failing to make required payments.
  • A New York trial
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NY Amends Home Care Worker Minimum Wage
May 19, 2023 | John K. Diviney | John F. Queenan | Jeffrey Ehrhardt | Employment & Labor | Health Services

One of the many new provisions enacted as part of the 2023-2024 New York State Budget was an increase in the minimum wage for home care workers.

Initially, it is important to note that the $1 hourly increase in the minimum wage for home care workers in New York State, slated to take effect October

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The Employment Law Reporter
March 30, 2023 | Kenneth A. Novikoff | Employment & Labor

Here is what we cover in this issue of The Employment Law Reporter:

  • A federal court in New York has ruled that all five causes of action in an employment discrimination lawsuit brought by a former employee of the New York City Department of Education should be dismissed.
  • The U.S. District Court for the
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The Employment Law Reporter
January 11, 2023 | Kenneth A. Novikoff | Employment & Labor

Here is what we cover in this issue of The Employment Law Reporter:

  • The U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York has dismissed claims under Title I, Title II, and Title III of the Americans with Disabilities Act and claims under the Rehabilitation Act against a non-profit corporation that provides job
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New 2023 Minimum Wages and Minimum Salaries to Take Effect
December 7, 2022 | John K. Diviney | Employment & Labor

Minimum hourly wages for many nonexempt employees and minimum salaries for exempt employees in New York, New Jersey and Connecticut are scheduled to increase in 2023. Employers should begin to make plans to ensure that their hourly wages for nonexempt employees, their minimum salaries for exempt employees and their wage hour policies and practices comply

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