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WSNYC Blog: The Latest in Employment Law
Working Solutions NYC Announces New Content on Amazon Flex and Finding a NYC Lawyer for Wrongful Termination or Misclassification
Working Solutions NYC, a team of top-rated employment attorneys working on severance, FMLA, and unpaid wages issues in New York and New Jersey at https://www.workingsolutionsnyc.com/, is proud to announce new…
New York City Law Blog
How and why employers misclassify workers
There are different categories of workers in the U.S., including regular employees, independent contractors, freelancers, and seasonal workers. Employers must classify their workers correctly, or there can be legal consequences.…
Who Is My Employee?
He-Gassen! This Telecom Company Should Have Smelled a Misclassification Claim Coming
Fire away! Source: Waseda U. LibraryThe Waseda University Library in Tokyo maintains an online archive of drawings dedicated to epic Japanese fart battles of the 17th and 18th centuries. The…
HR Defense
The Ramifications of College Athletes Being “Employees”
By Ryan Krone
Consider this: the General Counsel of the National Labor Relations Board has opined that some student-athletes at the collegiate level are “employees” for purposes of the right to engage in…
Independent Contractor Misclassification & Compliance
New Trend? States Expanding Employment Laws to Cover Independent Contractors
By Richard Reibstein Esq. of Littler Mendelson P.C.
State legislative efforts to expand the coverage of new employment laws to independent contractors in addition to employees continue to emerge. It appears that New York is on the cutting…
Who Is My Employee?
Major Scare for the Movie Industry: Independent Contractor Can Reclaim Copyright to Friday the 13th
With Halloween around the corner, it’s scary movie season. Every year, various publications post what they claim is the definitive list of All-Time Scariest Movies. Go ahead, google it. But…
Who Is My Employee?
Hold Your Fyre: Five Tips For Avoiding Misclassification When Using Social Media Influencers
In 2017, the Fyre Festival failed spectacularly after all sorts of social media influencers touted it as the must-attend party of the year. Documentaries on Hulu and Netflix tell the…
Milikowsky Tax Law Blog
Vince B. EDD Audit Case Study
We are grateful to our client, Vince B., for sharing his story of how we were able to help him weather an EDD audit. This audit could have closed his…
Hall Benefits Law Blog
New Jersey Targets Employee Misclassification
By Anne Hall
After Governor Phil Murphy signed into law an array of legislation in 2020, designed to identify and penalize New Jersey business enterprises for the misclassification of employees as independent contractors,…
Collegiate & Professional Sports Law Blog
NLRB’s General Counsel Uses Prosecutorial Authority to Assert Student-Athletes Are Employees
By Gregg E. Clifton, Bernard G. Dennis III
The on-and-off effort at the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) to classify “student-athletes” as “employees” has renewed. Although the National Labor Relations Act contains no formal recognition of student-athletes as…