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Feb 17, 2025 | jdsupra.com | Matthew P. Gizzo |Zachary Zagger |Sara Zucco

New York City employers will be required to physically and electronically post a copy of their written lactation room accommodation policy under recent amendments to New York City’s lactation accommodations law set to take effect on May 11, 2025. Quick Hits New York City employers will be required to physically and electronically post a written lactation room accommodation policy to employees.

Jan 16, 2025 | jdsupra.com | Matthew P. Gizzo |Zachary Zagger |Sara Zucco

On January 2, 2024, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit reinstated the New York Reproductive Health Bias Law’s requirement that New York State employers include a notice in their employee handbooks regarding the law’s prohibition on discrimination and retaliation based on employees’ reproductive health care choices.

Dec 11, 2024 | jdsupra.com | Francesco DeLuca |Zachary Zagger |Sara Zucco

The State of New York has adopted a first-in-the-nation requirement that employers provide twenty hours of paid leave per year as a stand-alone leave benefit for pregnant employees. The New York State Department of Labor (NYDOL) has clarified that this new requirement takes effect on January 1, 2025, and confirmed that it is separate from and unrelated to other types of paid family or sick leave benefits established under New York State law.

Apr 26, 2024 | jdsupra.com | Kelly M. Cardin |Zachary Zagger |Sara Zucco

New York will be the first state to require employers to provide paid leave to pregnant employees for prenatal care under one of a series of proposals included in legislation recently signed by Governor Kathy Hochul to implement the new state budget. Quick Hits A proposal included in the passage of the state budget will require employers to provide up to twenty hours of paid leave to pregnant employees for prenatal care each year.