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In January 1942, for the duration of World War II, the President of the United States absorbed the New York State Employment Service into the National Manpower Program. In 1944, New York State’s Minimum Wage Law was amended to include men. In 1945, the NYS Industrial Board was replaced by the Workmen’s Compensation Board. [44] [45]
The Scaffold Law is a New York State law that holds employers and property owners fully liable when an employee becomes injured due to a gravity-related fall while working at high elevations without proper safety equipment. The law was enacted in 19th century and is contained in New York State Labor Law § 240/241.
The Freelance Isn't Free Act (FIFA) is a local New York City law passed by the New York City Council in 2016 that protects the labor rights of freelance workers. The bill passed unanimously, after lobbying by the Freelancers Union. [1] The law was officially enacted on May 15, 2017. [2]
A staffing-minimum law was touted as a fix to hospital understaffing. But workers have filed more than 8,000 complaints, arguing the problem persists. Hospital understaffing complaints piling up ...
In the context of labor law in the United States, the term right-to-work laws refers to state laws that prohibit union security agreements between employers and labor unions. Such agreements can be incorporated into union contracts to require employees who are not union members to contribute to the costs of union representation.
Labor Day return-to-office mandates fell flat because workers (still) value flexibility over money, says Harvard future of work professor. Jane Thier. November 12, 2023 at 6:00 AM.
New York held that New York limiting bakers' working day to 60 hours a week violated employers' freedom of contract. The Supreme Court majority supposedly unearthed this "right" in the Fourteenth Amendment , that no State should "deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law."
The post-Labor Day return-to-office push has practically become an annual tradition. This year, over 1 million employees at companies including FedEx, Zoom Communications, ...