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.

Recording: Paid Family Leave in NY

June 8, 2020
Paid Family Leave
Pregnancy Discrimination
FMLA
Woven Bodies, an inclusive digital practice supporting queer folks + allies from family planning through parenthood hosted Associate Alex Berke to offer training on Paid Family Leave.

The Berke-Weiss Law Weekly Round Up

June 5, 2020
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This week we’re looking at the opportunity coronavirus has provided to rethink care structures in the US, the disproportionate impact lockdowns have had on black communities, and ballooning unemployment numbers for women over 55.

A Generation of Working Mothers Face Employment Disparities

June 4, 2020
Gender Discrimination
Pregnancy Discrimination
This week, the New York Times reports that the temporary setbacks to gender parity in the workplace are in danger of being close to permanent, leaving a whole generation of women behind their male cohort in the workplace. There has been a decade of fragile progress since the Great Recession, and in February, women represented a majority of civilian, non-farm workers employed in the country.

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