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December 13, 2023
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Law360 Quotes Senior Associate Alex Berke in Article Covering Recent Court Decision

Law360 covers recent decision made in Frazier v. FCBC Development Corp. et al., in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York. The Defendant’s motion for summary judgement was denied by U.S. District Judge Arun Subramanian. This is the second favorable decision for the plaintiff, after the initial decision to deny defendants motion to dismiss. Law 360 quoted Senior Associate Alex Berke, who represents plaintiff Frazier in this matter, regarding this important ruling. Click here to read her full statement and more about the decision. Looking ahead, Berke prepares to have plaintiff Frazier’s claims heard by a jury.

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Employees Push Back at Tech Companies for Giving Parents too Much

September 11, 2020
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It might seem like vanilla stuff for some of the world’s almost capitalized companies in the world to provide extra support to employees during a global pandemic, but not so at companies like Facebook and Twitter, where a rift has formed between parents, non-parents and employers over the companies’ policy responses to daycare and school closures.

The Berke-Weiss Law Weekly Roundup: A nurse fights for safer workplaces

September 8, 2020
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There was some decent news this week in the employment outlook, depending on how you look at it. The positive is that roughly 1.37 million jobs were added this week and the unemployment rate dropped to 8.4 percent. The negative is that nearly 20 million Americans remain unemployed and of those 1.37 million jobs added over 230,000 hires are census workers, who will be out of a job shortly.

Too Early Retirement

September 1, 2020
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For some, early retirement is a chance to do something else, to spend more time with family, or pursue a passion put off by work. But for others, early retirement, also known by the euphemistic “involuntary separation,” has been an unwelcome occurrence and reminder of people’s status within the workforce, and this trend has been increasing in recent times.
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