Tag Archives: employment law

From the Picket Line to the Bottom Line: Inside New York’s Historic Nursing Strike

Nick Kriak – For forty-one days this winter, the nation’s largest and most complex healthcare market was forced to confront a simple but disruptive reality: hospitals cannot operate without nurses. What began on January 12 as the largest nursing strike in New York City history quickly escalated beyond a mere labor dispute. Nearly 15,000 nurses […]

From Hire to Fire: How AI is Reshaping Civil Liability in the Workplace

Daniel Diez – Being fired by a robot once felt like something out of a movie. Now, it’s business as usual. Artificial intelligence (“AI”) is being used for hiring, evaluation, promotion, demotion, and termination decisions across the United States. The growing reliance on AI for employment decisions has created new legal risks, exposing businesses to […]

Class Action Suit Highlights Need for Employers to Re-examine Expense Reimbursement Policies for Remote Workers

Ryan Greenberg – A few months into 2020, employers began abruptly closing their physical offices due to the growing threat of COVID-19. Suddenly, millions of U.S. employees were working remotely for the first time. By the end of the year, 71% of workers who said their job could mostly be done remotely were indeed remote […]