April 29, 2024

Laurie Berke-Weiss Participates in NYU Law School Student's Presentation, "Clawback Across the Country"

Laurie Berke-Weiss recently was a commentator for a presentation by Samuel Ball, a 2L at NYU Law School, about his paper, “Clawback Across the Country”, a nationwide survey of “[c]ommon-law compensation forfeiture, which allows employers and others who have hired agents to recoup compensation paid to employees (or agents during a period where they have breached their duty of loyalty.…”. Sam’s paper includes an analysis of the “faithless servant doctrine” which is applied in New York to all employees.  The presentation can be viewed using this link, along with a draft of the paper.

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Motivational Speaker Tony Robbins Sued over Covid-related Discrimination

December 29, 2020
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A new lawsuit, filed by an employee of the motivational speaker Tony Robbins, alleges that Robins’s company, Robbins Research International, along with Robbins and his wife Bonnie, discriminated against the employee who requested reasonable accommodations be met for her recovery from coronavirus.

Doctor’s Video Underscores How Structural Racism Permeates the Medical Profession

December 29, 2020
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One of the most devastating forms in which structural race discrimination appears is in the worlds of medicine and health care where people of color, especially Black people are provided with inferior forms of care, which are often deadly.

Emergency Paid Leave and Sick Days under Fire in New Stimulus Negotiations

December 21, 2020
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As Congress races to finalize a new round of stimulus for the nation, stricken at the moment with the winter surge that epidemiologists predicted, workers are under threat of losing access to paid emergency leave as well as paid sick days. According to the National Partnership for Women & Families, allowing such provisions to expire would be a grave mistake.

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