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By Liane Fisher, Founding Partner, Serrins Fisher Law.com is out with a report this week highlighting an important legal victory for New York-based home healthcare aides. My firm, Serrins Fisher, represents the plaintiffs in the action, and my associate Michael...

As reported by the Washington Post: For the first time in more than 30 years, the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission issued new guidelines to make clear to employers that refusing to give reasonable accommodations to pregnant workers is illegal under federal law....

In 2013, following rancorous disputes between the Obama Administration and congressional Republicans, the federal government partially shut down from October 1 through October 16. Note the word "partially" - since a total shutdown would have resulted in unprecedented...

In a decision handed down June 18, the Second Circuit, the federal appellate court covering New York State, delineated and refined exactly what constitutes a "volunteer," a category of worker excluded from the protections of the federal Fair Labor Standards Act. In a...