by The Coppola Firm | Oct 27, 2020 | Personal Injury
While Halloween may look a little different this year due to COVID-19, anyone with little ones, or excited adults for that matter, knows that Halloween still is on. Every Halloween, you need to make sure you’re safe, but this year has some added safety precautions due...
by The Coppola Firm | Oct 26, 2020 | Business, Compliance, Employment, Entrepreneurship
Last year, Governor Andrew Cuomo signed into law several updates to the New York State Human Rights Law to strengthen protections against discrimination and harassment. For example: Domestic workers now are protected from harassment on all bases. The standard to prove...
by The Coppola Firm | Oct 22, 2020 | Business, Compliance, Employment, Entrepreneurship
As we previously reported, New York’s new Paid Sick Leave (PSL) requires all employers to provide sick leave each year. For very small employers with four or fewer employees, they must provide 40 hours of PSL annually – it’s paid if the company nets more than $1...
by The Coppola Firm | Oct 21, 2020 | Business, Compliance, Employment, Entrepreneurship
On September 30, 2020, the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) updated its guidance employer reporting of COVID-19 hospitalizations and fatalities. The revisions apply only to the reporting of hospitalizations and fatalities to OSHA. Recordkeeping...
by The Coppola Firm | Oct 20, 2020 | Personal Injury
In 1984, New York became the first State to enact a mandatory seatbelt law. Now, 36 years later, that law is being strengthened. For adults and those over the age of 16, current law requires that only front seat passengers wear seatbelts. An adult in the back seat is...
