By Saswat Pattanayak
Starting November 1, most New York City employers must list the salary range on all posted job ads, promotions and transfer opportunities.
This new law makes NYC the largest municipality in the U.S. to enforce pay transparency
By Saswat Pattanayak
FOR THE FIRST time in the history of the New York City Marathon, prize money will be awarded to non-binary runners during next month’s race.
The New York Road Runners (NYRR) had first introduced a non-binary category
According to Maternity Care Deserts (2022) Report by March of Dimes, access to maternity care is decreasing in the parts of the U.S. that need it the most, affecting nearly 7 million women of childbearing age and some 500,000 babies.
By Jack Tuckner, Esq.
Color discrimination in the workplace often overlaps with accusations of race discrimination, but they aren’t the same.
Race discrimination involves discriminatory treatment against an applicant or employee based on his or her race, while color discrimination
By Jack Tuckner, Esq.
Can your employer fire you if you become temporarily unable to do your job because you’re pregnant?
Absolutely not.
Why? Well, first of all, it would be pregnancy discrimination, and pregnancy discrimination is also sex discrimination.
By Jack Tuckner, Esq.
If your company has failed to promote you because you’re pregnant, that’s illegal, that’s illegal sex discrimination, it’s illegal pregnancy discrimination. And it’s often also illegal disability discrimination because of natural limitations of pregnancy or pregnancy
By Jack Tuckner, Esq.
How serious does sexual harassment have to be to file a complaint in work? Not too serious. You don’t want it to get to the level, and I understand it. If you’re being sexually harassed in
By Jack Tuckner, Esq.
If this happens to you at work, for instance, it’s definitely sexual harassment. I mean, this is non-consensual French kissing, is not acceptable in the workplace. I would notify human resources immediately. I would tell them,
By Jack Tuckner, Esq.
Well, it doesn’t matter who’s sexually harassing you in the workplace. Doesn’t matter the gender, the sex of the perpetrator of the sexual harassment, doesn’t have to be a member of the opposite sex. It doesn’t
Jack Tuckner here, the employment lawyer. New York State and New York City’s human rights laws prohibit discrimination based on arrest history or criminal conviction history. And there’s only two narrow exceptions to this prohibition. One is, if your conviction,