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By Josefa Velasquez | June 14, 2017
"Uber did not employ an arm's-length approach to the claimants as would typify an independent contractor arrangement," a state Department of Labor administrative law judge wrote, finding three Uber drivers, and "similarly situated" others in New York City, are entitled to unemployment benefits.
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By Erin Mulvaney | June 14, 2017
Company policies such as mandatory retirement—a common practice adopted in partnership deals at major law and accounting firms—should be scrutinized as a possible violation of age discrimination laws, an AARP in-house lawyer told the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission on Wednesday.
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By newyorklawjournal | New York Law Journal | June 13, 2017
Court Finds Workers Sufficiently Stated Claims For Violations of FLSA, WCL
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By Erin Mulvaney | June 12, 2017
An appeals court ruled Monday that a West Virginia coal mining company interfered with a worker's religious beliefs after the evangelical Christian likened the company's biometric hand scanners to clock in and out to the "Mark of the Beast," as described in the Book of Revelation.
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By newyorklawjournal | New York Law Journal | June 9, 2017
Failure to Eliminate Triable Issues Denies Dismissal of Labor Law §200, Negligence Claims
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By thelegalintelligencer | The Legal Intelligencer | June 9, 2017
Retirement benefits properly suspended where there was no break in service because employee was immediately hired back as an independent contractor to perform many of the same duties as her old position. Order of the Public School Employees' Retirement Board affirmed.
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By thelegalintelligencer | The Legal Intelligencer | June 9, 2017
Municipality could not eliminate subject of collective bargaining through adoption of home rule charter provision where Act 111, which granted fire and police officials right to bargain conditions of employment and took supremacy over any municipal home rule charter. Order of the commonwealth court reversed.
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By thelegalintelligencer | The Legal Intelligencer | June 9, 2017
Trial court correctly held that a superior court had already decided the issues raised by township in its challenge to an arbitrator's damages award for denying a police officer the right to take an off-duty job. Affirmed.
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By Meghan Tribe | June 9, 2017
The choppy seas of the restaurant industry have swamped another eatery in Joe's Crab Shack, whose Houston-based parent company owes nearly $220,000 to a pair of high-powered, Atlanta-based labor and employment firms. Ignite Restaurant Group Inc., owner of the popular seafood establishment and casual dining chain Brick House Tavern + Tap, filed for bankruptcy in Houston on June 6.
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By Marcia Coyle | June 9, 2017
James Comey said he knew what Donald Trump meant when he reportedly said he hoped the then-FBI director would drop the Michael Flynn investigation. That got New York labor lawyer Andrew Strom thinking with colleagues on Friday. Has the NLRB ever addressed "hope" in a case? Yes, the board has.
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