COVID-19 and the New Face of Furlough
Furloughs are in the news, from Macy’s announcing a furlough of a “majority” of its 130,000 workforce, to United Airlines furloughing one-third of its workforce, to the USCIS announcing the [...]
Hot Topic: Summer Jobs
When summer approaches, students and many other workers search for seasonal employment. Federal and state laws contain special consideration for seasonal work, employment of minors, and internships that may [...]
In the News: Salary History Inquiries
In many industries, it is common practice for employers to ask job candidates about their salary history. The logic of these questions is often to get a sense of [...]
Hot Topic: Forced Arbitration
At Pelton Graham, we have seen many instances where workers are required to sign pages and pages of paperwork full of dense legal language without any explanation of what [...]
Hot Topic: Know Your Rights Before You Work
You may already know that you have certain rights on the job to be free from unlawful discrimination, to be paid minimum wage and overtime if you work in [...]
Hot Topic: Wages for Waiting
Employees must be paid for work they perform. It seems pretty simple, but in employment law there are always complicated situations and circumstances that cannot be decided by bright-line [...]
Q&A: Discrimination, Harassment and Retaliation
By far the most common questions our firm receives involve discrimination, harassment and retaliation. Many people believe that discrimination, harassment and retaliation in the workplace are simply and wholly [...]
Updates: Intern and Cheerleader Wage Lawsuits
As we have discussed in previous posts, two of the biggest trends in employment law these days are FLSA lawsuits for minimum wage and overtime filed by cheerleaders and interns. [...]
Classifying Drivers
Well-established business, like FedEx, and newcomers, like Uber and Lyft—both start-up companies that allow customers to hail a car from their phones instead of hoping to find a cab or [...]
Need to Know: Tips and Service Charges
Under New York Law (NYLL § 196-d), employers are not allowed to keep any portion of employees’ tips, except for credit card charges, which are typically an extremely small [...]