Insights

New York – May 29, 2019: Eric Su has joined Crowell & Moring’s New York office as a partner in its Labor & Employment Group, bringing more than two decades of experience representing management in all aspects of labor and employment law.

Beginning January 1, 2025, New York employers will be required to provide employees with 20 hours of paid “prenatal personal leave” during any 52-week calendar period to attend prenatal medical appointments during or related to pregnancy. New York is the first state in the country to mandate paid leave specifically for pregnant employees.  “Prenatal personal leave” is included in an amendment to New York’s budget, recently signed into law as Sections 196-b.2 and 4-a of the New York Labor Law by the governor and cleared by the state legislature.

On April 26, 2024, the Department of Labor (“DOL”) published the Defining and Delimiting the Exemptions for Executive, Administrative, Professional, Outside Sales, and Computer Employees Rule (“Final Rule”), which will increase the minimum salary thresholds for bona fide executive, administrative, and professional exemptions under the FLSA.  Effective July 1, 2024, the annual salary thresholds for these “white collar” exemptions will increase to $43,888 (from $35,568) and increase again on January 1, 2025 to $58,656 and the threshold for highly-compensated employees will also increase from $107,432 to $132,964.  Effective July 1, 2025, the methodology will change and these thresholds will increase again (to $58,656 and $151,164, respectively).

On March 1, 2024, the New York City Department of Consumer and Worker Protection (“DCWP”) published a Workers’ Bill of Rights, which was developed in collaboration with the Mayor’s Office of Immigrant Affairs, the New York City Commission on Human Rights, and community and labor organizations in accordance with Local Law 161.  By July 1, 2024, all New York City employers are required to post prominently in the workplace the “Know Your Rights At Work” poster, which contains a scannable QR code linked to the DCWP website containing the Workers’ Bill of Rights.  Employers are also required to distribute a copy to each employee, and to provide every new hire with a copy on or before their first day of work.  Employers must also post it on their intranet or mobile app if they offer one for employees to use. 

Crowell & Moring partners Toni Jackson and Eric Su to present at the 16th Annual ABA Section of  Labor & Employment Law conference in Washington, DC. 

Over the past few years, criminal and civil government agencies engaged in increased enforcement efforts around the Home Health Industry. These efforts show no sign of slowing, and are focused on Wage Parity Act compliance. The federal, state, and local enforcement agencies scrutinizing Home Health Industry employers and fiscal intermediaries include the United States Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of New York; the United States Department of Labor; the New York State Attorney General’s Office, the Office of Medicaid Inspector General, and the New York City Department of Consumer Affairs. 

Please join us for the next edition of Third Thursday – Crowell & Moring’s Labor and Employment Update, a webinar series dedicated to helping our clients stay on top of developing law and emerging compliance issues.

Please join us on Wednesday, January 11, 2023 for a complimentary one-hour webinar addressing several of the most important requirements for earning enhanced tax credits under the IRA. 

This special edition of the Fastest 5 Minutes podcast covers recent developments related to the Infrastructure Bill and Inflation Reduction Act, and key areas to watch in 2023. The podcast features a cross practice team of Crowell partners, so we offer perspectives from tax, energy, labor and employment, government contracts, ESG, environmental, and government affairs. Crowell & Moring's "Fastest 5 Minutes" is a biweekly podcast that provides a brief summary of significant government contracts legal and regulatory developments that no government contracts lawyer or executive should be without.

In part one of this two-part series on what providers should know about COVID-19, hosts Payal Nanavati and Joe Records discuss labor and employment issues with Eric Su. This episode touches on health care providers’ obligations as employers and some best practices for handling this pandemic.