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Our Firm is saddened and angered by the killings of and violence against Black people by government authorities, as well as efforts to limit peaceful protest. In our legal practice, we fight against race discrimination in the workplace using the law, but these tragic events invite the law to do better now than in the past to provide justice and healing to those affected personally, and to our society as a whole.

It’s important that we acknowledge that coronavirus has accentuated already deep and persistent issues in employment law in general, and our particular interests, such as pregnancy and parental leave. However, the crisis has only exacerbated them and we hope to call attention to them not simply so we can think about them, but so we can work together to develop tools and other means to make a post-coronavirus world one where workers’ concerns are heard.

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Watch Associate Alex Berke’s Q&A session delivered at the Tory Burch Foundation on May 27, 2020. Alex and Lenore Horton provided guidance for small businesses on reopening safely and communicating effectively with employees.

Americans, including a majority of Democrats and Republicans, believe that independent contractors, freelancers, and those working in the gig economy, such as ride-hail drivers and delivery people working for app-based services like Door Dash and Instacart deserve some of the same employment protections already given to salaried employees.

Our Firm is happy to have two Fordham Law students on board this summer. Please join us in welcoming Rafita Ahlam and Kacie Candela!

As we learn more about the virus, one thing that is increasingly clear is that many of the major outbreaks are occurring at the workplace, with significant hotspots at prisons, call centers, meat processing facilities, and warehouses where many people are crammed together in poorly ventilated areas. At the end of April, 66% of workers were not comfortable returning to the workplace.

Though media outlets, politicians and protestors all claim that these protests against shutdown represent the will of the working class, polls have repeatedly shown that the less income you have, the more likely you are to be concerned about infection.

The Families First Act stipulates that employers must give employee-parents whose children’s day care facilities or schools closed in response to coronavirus paid leave if they cannot work remotely. Lawsuits are already being filed relating to violations of this Act, and family responsibilities discrimination will be a growing field in the coming months.

The NYS Unemployment Appeals Board is re-opening as of May 18. This is a welcome return of due process for the many people who have been denied UI who want to contest those denials and receive unemployment funds.

Just as the coronavirus itself has not affected the general population proportionally, its economic consequences haven't either.