Hot Employment Law Issues for 2025

Description

Class will cover:

• Return-to-office mandates & related legal issues
• An employer wins an FMLA intermittent leave case: Shipton v. Baltimore Elect. & Gas (4^th Cir. 2024)
• The N.Y. Retail Worker Safety Act, eff. March 4, 2025
• Last year, the EEOC sued 4 different employers for disability discrimination & failure to accommodate – what can we learn?
• The N.Y. Freelance Isn’t Free Act, eff. May 20, 2024
• Developments in sex harassment law: N.Y.’s unique standard is clarified by decisions and the EEOC issued “Enforcement Guidance” on April 29, 2024
• The N.Y. Paid Prenatal Leave Law, eff. Jan. 1, 2025
• Exempt from overtime – 2024 & 2025 changing salary thresholds for Federal & N.Y. law

Class will be taught by Daniel P. Forsyth, labor and employment lawyer with Bond, Schoeneck & King

Daniel has worked in employment law for over 35 years. He has been listed in The Best Lawyers in America® 2001-2025, Employment Law - Management; Labor Law - Management; Litigation - Labor and Employment (listed for more than 20 years). Most recently he was awarded Best Lawyers' 2025 Buffalo Labor Law - Management Lawyer of the Year.

He represents employers in National Labor Relations Board proceedings including unfair labor practice charges and over 30 union organizing campaigns. Daniel has extensive union experience in: labor arbitration, collective bargaining, jurisdictional disputes, strike preparation, strikes, slowdowns, reaching impasse, reserved gates, salting, decision & effects bargaining, decertification, deauthorization, lockouts, picketing, double-breasting, responding to union information demands, successorship, accretion, card signing and NLRB injunctions.

Daniel regularly appears before various federal and New York state agencies, including the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, U.S. Department of Labor Wage and Hour Division, OSHA, New York State Division of Human Rights, New York State Department of Labor and New York State Workers' Compensation Board.

He practices at all levels of state and federal courts in litigation involving: employment discrimination, wrongful discharge, restrictive covenants, motions to stay/compel arbitration, motions to vacate/confirm arbitration awards, duty of fair representation and injunctions.

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