By Jill Kahn Marshall, Anna Beckelman, Lucia Mead “Stay-or-pay” provisions are requirements in employment contracts that an employee, upon their departure from an employer before a defined period of time, repay the employer for expenses related to their employment.[1] Such mandated repayments may be for training costs (often known as...
By Jill Kahn Marshall and Anna Beckelman On Monday, January 12, the New Jersey legislature gave final passage to a bill that would significantly expand eligibility for family leave in the state. The bill now awaits signature from outgoing Governor Phil Murphy. Under current New Jersey law, employers with 30...
By Jill Kahn Marshall and Anna Beckelman Effective February 22, 2026, employees in New York City will have expanded rights under the Earned Sick and Safe Time Act (ESSTA or the “Act”). Currently, ESSTA entitles covered employees to accrue 40 or 56 hours of sick and safe leave annually, depending...
RPJ is proud to announce that Helen D. (“Heidi”) Reavis, Alice K. Jump, Deena R. Merlen, Frederick Fucci and John A. Beranbaum have been selected to the 2025 Metro New York Super Lawyers list and Jill Kahn Marshall has been selected to the 2025 Metro New York Rising Stars list. Following a vigorous...
RPJ’s Jill Kahn Marshall was recently quoted in an article from Clinician.com, titled “Social Media Posts Create Risk, Can Require Discipline.” The piece examines how healthcare employers are addressing the reputational and legal risks posed by employees’ social media activity, particularly posts that contain “offensive” or “unprofessional” content. The article...
By Jill Kahn Marshall and Anna Beckelman On September 5, 2025, the Federal Trade Commission withdrew its appeals in the Fifth and Eleventh Circuits of decisions that had enjoined the Commission from enforcing its non-compete ban, which prohibited most non-compete agreements nationwide. The FTC, under the Biden administration, had approved...
By Alice K. Jump, Jill Kahn Marshall and Anna Beckelman On June 5, 2025, the U.S. Supreme Court issued a unanimous decision in Ames v. Ohio Dept. of Youth Services, ruling that so-called “reverse discrimination” cases are not subject to a higher standard of proof than other discrimination claims. In...
By Jill Kahn Marshall and Anna Beckelman On April 23, 2025, President Donald Trump signed an executive order titled “Restoring Equality of Opportunity and Meritocracy” which aims to “eliminate the use of disparate-impact liability in all contexts to the maximum degree possible to avoid violating the Constitution, Federal civil rights...
By Jill Kahn Marshall and Anna Beckelman The New York State Senate recently passed Senate Bill S372, also known as the No Severance Ultimatums Act, which would add a new Section 215-d to the New York Labor Law in order to “ensure that all New Yorkers are provided protections when...
By Jill Kahn Marshall and Anna Beckelman In a recent bright spot for defenders of reproductive rights, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit has ruled in CompassCare et al. v. Hochul that employers in New York State must still provide notice to their employees regarding New...