April 17, 2020
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COVID-19: Know Your Rights Training for Law Students

Watch this recorded presentation delivered by Associate Alex Berke to the Fordham Workers’ Rights Advocates on April 16, 2020.  Alex discussed frequently asked legal questions about COVID-19 and workers’ rights, aimed at current law students.

Childcare and Paid Leave Funding Part of $1.8tn “American Families Plan” 

April 29, 2021
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In a speech to a joint session of Congress, President Biden unveiled the “The American Families Plan,” the third part of the president’s push to power a post-pandemic recovery. Along with the $1.9 trillion fiscal stimulus and a proposal for an infrastructure plan that would earmark $2.3 trillion to upgrade roads, bridges, railroads, and the country’s aging power grid, the American Families Plan seeks to fund a wide range of initiatives to address deep-lying problems on the job market that the pandemic exposed, and hopefully help the more than 2 million women who left the workforce in 2020 to return.

New Study Finds No Negative Effects in NYS Paid Family Leave 

April 16, 2021
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The results of a three-year study conducted by the National Bureau of Economic Research indicated that paid family leave policies do not have a negative effect for employers.

CLE Webinar Discusses the Vaccination Pros and Cons for Workplaces

April 16, 2021
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A recent Association of Corporate Counsel CLE webinar provided an important look at what employers should be thinking about as vaccination efforts here in the US speed up.

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