Marc E. Bernstein

Jun 4, 2024 | lexology.com | Marc E. Bernstein |Kaveh Dabashi

Effective June 19, 2024, New York State’s lactation break law will expand to require that employers offer thirty minutes of paid break time for an employee to express breastmilk for a nursing child, whenever the employee has a reasonable need to do so, within three years following childbirth. If the employee needs more than thirty minutes, she can avail herself of already-existing paid break time or meal time.

Apr 4, 2024 | lexology.com | Marc E. Bernstein |Kenneth W. Gage |Patrick Shea |Emily R. Pidot |Sara B. Tomezsko |Matthew Savage Aibel | +1 more

In December 2023, New York City’s Mayor signed into law a new section of the New York City Administrative Code (Local Law 161, §32-102) that requires the Department of Consumer and Worker Protection (DCWP), in conjunction with other city agencies and organizations, to create a Workers’ Bill of Rights by March 1, 2024.

Nov 9, 2023 | lexology.com | Dan Richards |Kenneth W. Gage |Marc E. Bernstein |Matthew Savage Aibel

As our colleagues recently discussed, on October 30, 2023, President Biden signed a sweeping Executive Order regarding the Safe, Secure, and Trustworthy Development and Use of Artificial Intelligence (the “EO”). The EO directs federal agencies to take a variety of actions, including soliciting studies and promulgating rules regarding the uses and impacts of artificial intelligence (“AI”).