Articles Posted in Legislative Update

New York lawmakers have passed the Wage Payment Integrity Act (S2236A /A2222A), a bill aimed at closing a loophole that has let some employers walk away from their commitment to pay workers bonuses and severance. The bill cleared the Senate and Assembly with strong bipartisan support and now awaits Governor Kathy Hochul’s signature. The Bonus…

For decades, your personnel file has belonged to your employer, not to you. If a supervisor wrote something false or unfair into your record, you had no legal right to see it, correct it, or even know it existed, unless you were already in a lawsuit and got it through discovery. The Personnel Records Bill…

New York workers may soon get a powerful new tool for protecting their rights under the state’s wage and hour and anti-discrimination laws. The Anti-Waiver of Employment Rights Act (Senate Bill S4424-A, sponsored by Senator Jessica Ramos, and Assembly Bill A5411-A, sponsored by Assemblymember Harry Bronson) passed both houses of the New York Legislature on…

New York’s Remedial Construction of NYLL Act, which would require courts to interpret the Labor Law liberally in favor of workers, passed the Legislature with bipartisan support and now awaits Governor Hochul’s signature after a prior veto.