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 [...]
Hot Topic: Sweeping Overtime Changes
Last year President Obama ordered the United States Department of Labor to update overtime regulations. These regulations are hugely important, as they 1) set salary threshold for overtime, meaning [...]
Quick Hits: Employment Law from Coast to Coast
This has been an eventful summer for employment and labor laws and workers both at home and beyond our walls. At Pelton Graham, we’re hearing about all kinds of [...]
Hot Topic: White House Employment Agenda
As President Obama digs into his second term, it’s become clear that overhauling federal employment law is a top priority of this administration. From wages to discrimination and family friendly [...]
Quick Hits: Good News for Workers Across the Country
There’s no doubt that employment law can be a challenging field, whether it’s the insidious expansion of employers’ powers to impose coercive arbitration provisions upon employees or the ever-increasing [...]
New Cases: What We’ve Seen Lately
At Pelton Graham we’ve had a busy spring so far, and we have several new cases to show for it! This is just a sampling of the wide range of [...]
Hot Topic: Student Workers
In recent years, hard-working and underpaid young people are rising up to assert their rights as employees. Whether as interns, research assistants or athletes, students work long hours making [...]
Playboy Whistleblower, Paid Sick Leave, Expanding Overtime, Battling Misclassification
Employment law is a busy and exciting field. There are new developments every day as laws are enacted, cases are decided and policy is debated. Here are some recent [...]
Appearance Discrimination
Although the various federal, state and local laws regarding discrimination can be complex, the fundamental idea behind them is simple: individuals should be judged on the basis of their [...]