On February 7, FedEx announced that FedEx Express, its operating company that promises “day-definite” deliveries, would start outsourcing some of its home deliveries to FedEx Ground. The Memphis-based publication The Commercial Appeal picked up the story, describing that protection of employees of the two operating arms falls under two different...
This is the fifth and final article in a series discussing the proposed Title IX regulations published by the U.S. Department of Education on November 16, 2018, and intended to address institutional procedures for investigating and resolving complaints of sexual harassment and sexual assault in educational institutions funded by the...
Last month, my colleagues reported on the changes to New York discrimination laws and minimum wage and overtime exemption requirements that took effect at the start of the year—two of several significant, new employment legal initiatives of which U.S. employers and employees should be aware. Two others of particular note...
After building up laws against sexual harassment in 2018, in 2019 New York State enacted additional legislation that further clarified and expanded protections available to workers under the New York State Human Rights Law (NYSHRL), as we previously discussed in this article. A number of the new requirements took effect in...
The last several years have seen successful efforts by employees and employee advocates to raise the minimum wage and salary thresholds for exempt employees throughout New York State. While these increases have been scheduled to gradually take effect over a number of years, the onset of 2020 brings further increases throughout the...
This is the fourth article in a series addressing the proposed Title IX regulations, published by the U.S. Department of Education on November 16, 2018, and intended to address institutional procedures for investigating and resolving complaints of sexual harassment and sexual assault in educational institutions funded by the federal government. As...
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit has issued a “clarifying” ruling, Lenzi v. Systemax, Inc., No. 18-979, 2019 WL 6646630, at *1–2 (2d Cir. Dec. 6, 2019), holding that a plaintiff seeking to assert claims under Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 for substandard...
In the wake of the #Metoo movement and the strengthening of laws concerning sexual harassment claims, employers have been encouraged to promptly and aggressively investigate claims of harassment or sexual misconduct in the workplace. While failing to take such accusations seriously certainly creates legal risk, a flawed or biased investigation...
New York employers have just two more weeks in which to comply with the sexual harassment prevention training requirements under New York State law. If you are an employer in New York and have not already provided sexual harassment prevention training to your employees, you must do so by October...
Predictable jokes about French joie de vivre swept employment law circles after a recent decision from a Paris court awarded damages to the estate of an employee who had died on a business trip in 2013. The cause of death was a heart attack suffered while the employee was having “an...