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New York insurers must now cover certain autism disorders

01/01/2007

Effective Jan. 1, all newly issued health insurance policies in New York must cover autism spectrum disorders. Gov. George Pataki signed the measure ordering the changes last September …

Hip-Hop editor wins millions in sex discrimination trial

01/01/2007

A New York jury has awarded the former editor-in-chief of The Source, a hip-hop magazine, $15.5 million in damages from her sex discrimination lawsuit …

Davis Vision loses NY contract; unions concerned about job cuts

01/01/2007

After 23 years, New York-based Davis Vision has lost its contract to provide vision benefits to state employees …

Set objective criteria for renewing employee contracts

01/01/2007

A former math teacher at Canisius High School in Buffalo recently filed suit against the school, alleging she was wrongly denied tenure despite her excellent reviews …

How to comply with New York’s new Military Spouse Leave Law

01/01/2007

In August 2006, Gov. George Pataki signed New York’s new Military Spouse Leave Law, which allows spouses of deployed military reservists to take up to 10 days of unpaid leave from work each year …

Handle application liars consistently: Reject all or none

12/01/2006

As an employer, you can’t always wait on a background check before offering a job, so you have to rely on applicants’ oral and written statements to make the offer. But when the background check comes back to reveal that the person lied, you have the absolute right to terminate that individual for dishonesty …

New incentive to speed up workers’ comp cases

12/01/2006

New York employers now have more incentive to move workers’ compensation cases along quicker if the case includes accusations that the employer retaliated against employees who filed a work-related injury claim …

Contract will still stick, even if employee fails to read it

12/01/2006

When faced with a multipage employment contract, some job candidates and employees may be tempted to skip a careful reading before they sign on the dotted line. But state courts won’t excuse employees who claim that they didn’t understand the employment terms because they never read them …

Even Lateral Transfer Can Be Declared ‘Illegal Retaliation’

12/01/2006

Whenever one of your employees files a discrimination claim, you now need to be ultracautious about making any changes to that employee’s job. That’s because almost any change—including lateral transfers with the same pay and title—can now be deemed an illegal "adverse employment action" by the court …

Disability harassment costs Wall Street firm half million

12/01/2006

Wall Street securities firm LaBranche & Co. agreed to pay former trading assistant Peter Servidio $500,000 to settle his disability harassment lawsuit …