Long Island Employment Law Blog

Hofstra University law professor Joanna Grossman and University of Pittsburg law professor Deborah Brake comment on a recent lawsuit filed by Leigh Castergine against her former employer, the New … Learn More…

RENO, Nev., Sept. 10, 2014 /PRNewswire-iReach/ Age discrimination is so pervasive in America that even workers in their 30s, 40s are 50s are suffering, according to Patricia G. Barnes, an attorney and judge who has written a new book called, Betrayed:The Legalization of Age Discrimination in the Workplace. Learn More…

Legislation Will Expand Protections for Veterans, Domestic Violence Survivors, Pregnant Women, Renters, and more. Learn More…

Mayor Bill de Blasio’s office thinks the new law will apply to 200,000 working New Yorkers who previously had to choose between health and pay. Learn More…

Federal Courts recently decided two cases involving public employee First Amendment issues. In Lane v. Franks, the U.S. Supreme Court settled an important question of law –whether public employers who testify truthfully pursuant to a subpoena are protected from retaliation by their employer under the First Amendment. In Pekowsky v. Yonkers Bd. of Educ., Judge…

Many employees think that “whistleblowing” in the workplace is widely protected. However, New York’s primary whistleblower statute, Labor Law 740, is very narrow and only protects a very specific set of whistleblowing activities. Although the requirements to prove such claims at trial have not changed nor has scope of the protections changed, New York’s highest…

This week, New York City implemented legislation to provide the same workplace protections to unpaid interns which paid employees have enjoyed for years. Last year, a federal judge ruled that the New York City Human Rights Law, which prohibits discrimination in the workplace, covers only employees. He reasoned that unpaid interns were not employees so…

Last week, a New York Appellate Court in Manhattan upheld a judgment in an employment discrimination case awarding the plaintiff $1.2 million in punitive damages and $400,000 in compensatory damages, for a total award of $1.6 million. The plaintiff sued her former employer for violations of the New York City Human Rights Law, including for…

Multiple news agencies are reporting about an astonishing story from Rome, New York. According to a New York State Attorney General Press Release, the Betsy Ross Nursing and Rehabilitation Center discriminated against African-American employees by barring them from working in a particular unit of the nursing home. Incredibly, the home posted a sign in the…

CNN is reporting about a case in Florida which again reminds us of the dangers of Facebook. According to CNN, the head of a Florida school sued the school for age discrimination. The case settled, but almost immediately, the plaintiff’s daughter posted about the settlement on Facebook: “Mama and Papa Snay won the case against…