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HR Alert: New York’s Paid Prenatal Leave Law

Written by Lisa Coppola on May 7, 2024. Posted in Business, Compliance, Employment, Entrepreneurship.

New York is the first State in the country to establish a paid prenatal leave benefit for pregnant workers. The New York paid prenatal personal leave amendment was signed by Governor Kathy Hochul on April 19, 2024 and will...

HR Alert: NY Bans Inquiries into Social Media Accounts

Written by Lisa Coppola on December 4, 2023. Posted in Business, Compliance, Employment, Entrepreneurship.

Governor Kathy Hochul recently signed a new bill into law that prohibits employers from requesting, requiring, or coercing an employee or applicant to disclose information relating to their personal social media accounts. Section...

ChatGPT & Me: Are You Prepared to Address AI in the Workplace?

Written by Lisa Coppola on May 16, 2023. Posted in Business, Compliance, Employment, Entrepreneurship.

Change often is at odds with stability, and new advances in Artificial Intelligence (AI) are shaking things up. As many of you know by now, on November 30, 2022, OpenAI released a chatbot called ChatGPT. ChatGPT is an example...

HR Alert: NY Employers Don’t Have to Share Personnel Files

Written by Lisa Coppola on March 8, 2023. Posted in Business, Compliance, Employment, Entrepreneurship, Uncategorized.

Throughout an employee’s tenure at a company, they may request to see their personnel file. However, there’s no New York law that requires an employer to grant access to its employee’s personnel file. Likewise,...

HR Alert: Workplace Posters Now Must Be Electronic Too

Written by Lisa Coppola on February 28, 2023. Posted in Business, Compliance, Employment, Entrepreneurship.

Recently, Governor Kathy Hochul signed legislation amending New York Labor Law section 201. Prior to this, the law required only that employers post paper copies of NYS Department of Labor notices and posters in conspicuous...

HR Alert: My Employee Trashed Our Company on Facebook, What Can I Do?

Written by Lisa Coppola on February 14, 2023. Posted in Business, Charter Schools, Compliance, Employment, Entrepreneurship.

You’re a good employer and a responsible business, and you always put your employees first. But that doesn’t necessarily mean your employees will see it that way, especially when a poor performer has a bad outcome or gets...

HR Alert: How the ADA Can Snag Your Marketing Team

Written by Lisa Coppola on January 31, 2023. Posted in Business, Charter Schools, Compliance, Employment, Entrepreneurship.

While perhaps not purely a human resources issue, we know our HR professional clients and business owners have become well acquainted with the federal law known as the ADA, which is short for the Americans with Disabilities...

HR Alert: COVID-19 Disability Info

Written by Lisa Coppola on January 12, 2023. Posted in Business, Charter Schools, Compliance, COVID 19, Employment.

The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) updated its COVID-19 technical assistance today. It added information to clarify when COVID-19 may be considered a disability under the Americans with Disabilities Act...

Adult Survivors Act Attorney

Written by Lisa Coppola on December 2, 2022. Posted in Business, Compliance, Employment, Entrepreneurship, Litigation.

On November 10, 2022, famed movie director Paul Haggis was found liable for the 2013 rape of Haleigh Breest, a former publicist in the film industry. This civil lawsuit was filed in 2017 under the Victims of Gender-Motivated...

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When the C-Suite Isn’t So Sweet…

Written by Lisa Coppola on September 17, 2022. Posted in Business, Employment, Entrepreneurship.

Corporate executives are under a lot of pressure. Where there is high compensation, there tend to be some outrageous demands. What’s realistic in a contract? Should you expect a non-compete? What about a non-solicit when clients/patients/customers/donors...

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