Employment Law

Your recent mental illness diagnosis offered you equal parts peace and worry. If your mental illness impacts your work performance, should you share your diagnosis with your employer? Could doing so lead to a potentially hostile work environment?  HuffPost offers some...

A hate crime is an act of violence toward an individual or group on the basis of a certain status, such as gender, disability, race/ethnicity, sexual orientation or religion. Not only is it frightening if an employee of yours allegedly commits a hate crime against...

Employees who work in any of New York’s many business niches have the right to a safe and nontoxic environment. While physically safe surroundings can be important to their well-being, emotional safety can have an equal impact, which is why it might be important to...

Going to work every day is hard enough without having to worry about sexual harassment. Still, this type of behavior is not exactly rare in the workplace. In fact, according to a recent study, more than 80% of women have been victim to some type of sexual harassment. ...

When employees in New York have to deal with a hostile work environment, it can have a big psychological and emotional impact. In turn, this affects worker productivity and every other aspect of the workplace. If left unchecked, this sort of issue can easily turn the...

Workplace conflicts are common occurrences in New York. Resolution is quick, and the parties involved move past them. However, in some instances, hostility escalates into a significant problem. If you must deal with another employee making statements that can ruin...

When it comes to workplace discrimination, there are a lot of ways in which this mistreatment can shatter someone’s life. For example, they may be denied a position solely because of their gender, religious views or age. Or, they could be fired because of their...

Maybe you question whether your New York workplace is truly hostile. Are you just being a bit too sensitive? Is a visit to HR truly necessary? To help, Monster offers some of the more common signs of a hostile work environment. Take a look to see if any of these sound...

If you are an LGBTQ citizen in New York, it is likely that you are curious about the status of your civil protections. With all of the recent developments, some states are cracking down with more restrictions, while others are enhancing the rights of these...