Employee Rights

When a friend or loved one gets a new job, one commonly asked question is about the employer-provided benefits. Health care coverage, stock incentives, retirement plans and other employee rights, benefits and perks seem to be a mainstay of full-time employment. Yet in...

Though New York certainly doesn't have the worst wage gap between men and women, it is not at the top. For every one dollar that a man earns, a woman earns 82.9 cents on average. Not only is this wildly unfair, it potentially violates the federal Equal Pay Act. The...

We've all been picked on before, sometimes for really trivial reasons, but most of us do not expect to be bullied at the office. It makes sense, the office is where you work and where you are expected to be professionals, but there are many workplaces in Manhattan and...

In a vote that has been 17 years in the making, the United States Senate passed an anti-discrimination law that prohibits discrimination based on sexual orientation. This gives employee rights to gay, lesbians, bisexual and transgender individuals for the first time....

Even though the economy is slowly recovering, employment is still on rocky ground. In September, almost 8 million Americans were working part-time because full-time jobs were not available. Almost a fifth of the entire workforce, a whopping 27 million Americans, are...

The government shutdown has shuttered a lot of agencies. The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) and the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) are two agencies that have been hard-hit by the furloughs. Both websites are currently down, which poses an issue...

In recent years, many of our fellow citizens who do double-duty as members of the National Guard or Reserves have been called back into active duty. For most, this has meant leaving their full-time employment to serve. When they return, they are supposed to resume...

Self-employed people typically work for themselves because they prefer it for a variety of reasons. However, they are not blind to the realities of being their own bosses, and one of those is the realization that when work is slow, collecting unemployment is not an...

An increasing number of employers are seeking to gain access to their employees' social media accounts in order to track how they represent the company on said sites. For some employees, this has led to disciplinary action and even termination. Some employees have...

When an employee turns in its employer for questionable or illegal practices, the employee is generally protected by whistleblower laws, which are in place to keep the employee from suffering retaliation from the employer or other agencies. However, contractors are...