Employment Law
A SAMPLING OF “EMPLOYMENT LAW” ISSUES ADDRESSED IN THE NEW YORK APPELLATE DIGEST SEARCHABLE DATABASE
EMPLOYMENT LAW issues in this database are pervasive. The issues include (but are far from limited to):
Workers’ Compensation (benefits for workers injured on the job, employee vs independent contractor, special employees, exclusive remedy, etc.);
Unemployment Insurance;
Retirement and Social Security Law (injured police officers and firefighters, etc.);
Municipal Law (collective bargaining agreements, discipline, eliminating positions, benefits, hiring, firing, defense of employees, indemnification of employees, retirement benefits, General Municipal Law 205-a, civil rights violations by police, etc);
Labor Law-Construction Law (workers injured in construction accidents, etc.);
Labor Law (prevailing wage, whistleblower, apprenticeship training, wrongful termination, Labor Law 27-a, etc.);
Education-School Law (hiring and firing teachers, discipline, pay, benefits, negligent hiring, retention, training and supervision, injury by or to school employees, contracting with outside agencies, etc.);
Releases (employers cannot require employees to sign releases, etc.);
Volunteer Agreements (release prohibition applies to volunteers as well as employees, etc.);
Assault (liability of employer for assault by an employee, scope of employment, etc.);
Scope of Employment (liability of employer, etc.);
Caps on Executive Compensation (Department of Health, etc.);
Negligent Hiring, Retention, Training and Supervision;
Contract Law (employment contracts, etc.);
Arbitration (employee issues);
Discrimination (Human Rights Law, etc.);
NYS Human Rights Law (discrimination, etc.);
NYC Human Rights Law;
Pensions;
Covenant Not to Compete;
Restrictive Covenants;
Vicarious liability (employer liability for acts of employees, etc.);
Tortious Interference with Prospective Economic Advantage;
Trade Secrets;
Respondeat Superior;
Unfair Competition;
Retaliation Ccaims;
Class Actions (by employees, etc.);
Unions (collective bargaining, etc.);
National Labor Relations Act;
Administrative Law (employment issues, etc.).