Public radio station WNYC and its parent company, New York Public Radio, have recently faced multiple allegations of inappropriate conduct, sexual harassment, and bullying. Several popular hosts were accused of impropriety by co-workers and guests, and a number were...
Month: April 2018
Using the Contents of a Safe Deposit Box to Satisfy a Judgment
Contrary to popular belief, seizing houses and cars and freezing bank accounts are not the only ways to enforce a judgment. There are other creative avenues to pursue against a debtor who may or may not have liquid funds to satisfy a judgement, including issuing a...
Federal judge rules Uber limo drivers are independent contractors
Part of what makes Uber, Lyft, Grubhub and other "gig economy" companies so profitable is that they have relatively few employees. The vast majority of these companies' workforces are made up of independent contractors. Since they are not employees, they are not...
9th Circuit: Salary history doesn’t justify gender gap in pay
According to the Pew Research Center, an average woman working in the United States makes about 82 cents for every dollar a male peer makes for doing the same work. Some of that pay gap can be explained by differences in choice of occupation, educational attainment,...
Supreme Court makes it harder for employees to get OT
A recent decision by the U.S. Supreme Court may limit the number of people eligible to receive overtime pay. In early April, the Supreme Court issued an opinion involving the Fair Labor Standards Act. The FLSA is a federal law that requires employers to...
NY harassment laws change in response to #MeToo, #TimesUp
One of the most notorious revelations of sexual misconduct in the #metoo movement was the Harvey Weinstein scandal. Accused by numerous assistants, actresses, and others of sexual harassment and sexual assault, Weinstein and his associated film production companies...
Seizing Assets From Property With Joint Owners
Our previous post discussed some creative ways to enforce judgments (such as seizing the contents of a debtor's safe deposit box) and alluded to the challenges of taking such actions when the account is owned jointly by the debtor and non-debtor. In this article, we...
Suit: O’Reilly’s breach of confidentiality ‘especially corrupt’
A federal judge in New York has ordered the disclosure of three confidential settlements arranged by former Fox News host Bill O'Reilly. The disclosures were ordered as part of a lawsuit brought by three former Fox News and Fox Business Network employees who claim...
Publishers acting swiftly on books tainted by sexual harassment
"It's a pretty tumultuous time," one literary agent commented to the New York Times. "It's hard to get it right all the time, but I do think people understand now that these situations are more often about power, and not about sex." If they do, it may be the result of...
Will it take a law to get workers away from their email?
A proposed New York City law would prohibit employers from requiring employees to check email after hours. Many workers check their email at night after they've left work or in the morning before going into the office, and most Americans report that they use...
