June 1, 2021
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Staffing Updates at Berke-Weiss Law

In firm-related news, Rosa Aliberti and Alex Berke have recently been promoted from Associate to Senior Associate. Congratulations to them for their promotions! We want to celebrate and recognize their fantastic work at the Firm and their tenacious dedication to our clients. 

We’d like to extend a warm welcome to Finne Murphy as she joins the team as the new Paralegal/Legal assistant. She graduated from Middlebury College with a degree in English and American Literatures. She’s previously worked as an accessibility partner at Amazon in Seattle, WA.

We are also very excited to welcome Katina Smith as our newest law clerk for the Summer. Katina is a rising 3L at Fordham Law, where she is enjoying her coursework in Negotiations. She is a member of the Fashion Law Society and will be participating in the Mediation Clinic in the fall. She has varied intern experiences from the Brooklyn Housing Court to spending a year as Judge Jeanine Pirro's intern on Fox News. Welcome, Katina!

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Center for American Progress Report Warns Childcare Crisis Will Have Strong Negative Effects on American Women’s Workforce Participation

June 4, 2020
Gender Discrimination
This week, the Center for American Progress released a new report titled “Valuing Women’s Caregiving During and After the Coronavirus Crisis” which highlights the need to support caregivers during the crisis, but also to think about medium- and long-term strategies to ensure that this does not result in a long-term crisis within childcare.

Employers Must Investigate and Report Work-Related Covid-19 Cases to OSHA

June 3, 2020
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Under new Occupational Safety and Health Administration (“OSHA”) guidance, moving forward employers must now investigate how any Covid-19 positive employees may have contracted the virus. If the cause of the infection was likely work-related, the employer must record it as an “occupational illness.”

Antiracism Resources

June 2, 2020
Race Discrimination
Our Firm is saddened and angered by the killings of and violence against Black people by government authorities, as well as efforts to limit peaceful protest. In our legal practice, we fight against race discrimination in the workplace using the law, but these tragic events invite the law to do better now than in the past to provide justice and healing to those affected personally, and to our society as a whole.
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