April 29, 2024
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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.

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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