Entrepreneurship

Big news this week for employers and other businesses out there.  On April 23, 2024 the Federal Trade Commission issued a final rule banning essentially all non-compete agreements between employers and employees nationwide…

In the first quarter of 2024, the House of Representatives passed legislation for women-owned small businesses (WOSB). The bipartisan bill, titled The WOSB Integrity Act of 2024 will ensure that the intended federal contra…

As you might recall, the federal government expanded employee protections for pregnant employees last year through the Pregnant Workers Fairness Act (PWFA). In a previous blog, we discussed workplace actions that the PWFA …

When it comes to legal problems facing small-business owners, nobody wants to go to court. It can be costly, time-consuming, and damaging to the reputation of your business. This is especially the case with employment disc…

While we’re no longer in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic, there still are laws in effect that were enacted during the pandemic. One is COVID-19 sick leave, which was passed in the pandemic’s very first days. Enact…

In late 2023, the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) and the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) released a new Memorandum of Understanding (MOU). The MOU is meant to strengthen information sharing and …

It’s an unfortunate fact that employees are increasingly making claims against their employers, whether legitimate or not. These claims may be at an administrative agency such as the EEOC or NY Division of Human Rights or …

In recognition of Women’s History Month, we thought it appropriate to highlight a department in the U.S. Department of Labor that’s scarcely discussed yet extremely important:  the Women’s Bureau. What’s the Wo…

Everyone in New York State who works in human resources or hiring knows that the New York Pay Transparency Law became effective last autumn. It requires all New York employers with four or more employees to disclose the ra…

A federal court judge in Alabama recently ruled that the federal Corporate Transparency Act (CTA), which we wrote about here, was unconstitutional. This marks the first judicial decision on the lawfulness of requiring smal…