Employers need to prepare for two big changes going into effect next month. The new rules for determining whether an employee is “exempt” from overtime pay and increases in minimum hourly wages will have a significant impact on businesses. Here’s what you need to know: Increase in Federal Exemption Status Effective December 1, 2016, the…
A significant portion of successful companies on Long Island are closely-held family businesses. As these companies transition to the next generation, they are facing a new employment law landscape which poses additional challenges. In many cases, the older and younger generations don’t agree on how to change employment practices to avoid liability. The key to…
Many employers hire high school or college students, or recent graduates as interns. The internship model is simple: the employer gives the intern experience, a good reference and something valuable on their resume, and in exchange, the intern provides some service to the employer that enhances its business. In most instances, the intern is either…
As expected, the Federal Department of Labor (“DOL”) has issued new rules regarding the threshold “white collar” exemption from overtime pay. The DOL has increased the minimum pay threshold from $23,660 to $47,476 per year. The minimum threshold in New York State is already $35,000 per year. The DOL has also increased the minimum salary…
If you’re a business owner and have employees, you need to know that the New York State Legislature has recently passed a new law that will greatly impact you and your business over the next 5 years. Specifically, in the next three to five years (depending on where your business is located within New York…
Entering the coming year it is critical that New York based employers understand recent changes to various federal and state employment laws that will significantly affect their business as they proceed forward. NEW YORK CHANGES IN WAGES Effective January 1, 2016, New York has increased the minimum wage for all employees to $9.00 per hour….
What is BYOD? Bring Your Own Device or BYOD refers to a program of permitting employees to bring personally owned mobile devices, such as laptops, tablets and smart phones to the workplace and allowing employees to use those devices to access confidential company information and applications. With an estimate of 95% of employees using at…
I am sure by now either you or your employees have received those annoying red light tickets or the school zone speeding tickets. Nassau County has collected over 1.4 million dollars since school started, and projects to receive as much as $25 million a year from those annoying and costly speed camera tickets. In 2013,…
