Compliance Stuff

Rapid changes across the federal government are creating tremendous ambiguity for the private sector, particularly around employment and immigration issues. To help employers address the quickly evolving landscape and prepare for likely policy shifts, Mintz Immigration Practice Chair John Quill and Employment Associates Corbin Carter and Emma Follansbee hosted a webinar on February 25 in partnership with the Association of Corporate Counsel (ACC) Northeast . They explored the potential impacts of the Trump administration in relation to a broad spectrum of issues, including wage and hour law, workplace safety, DOL investigations, EEOC matters, diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) initiatives, union organizing and labor activities, immigration, potential travel delays, and travel bans. Along with the expected favoring of business interests and the scaling back of Biden-era executive orders, the attorneys anticipate an increase in regulatory activity at the state level. Companies need t...

  The   most recent amendment   to New York’s Workers’ Compensation Law, which went into effect on January 1, 2025, permits   any  employee to seek workers’ compensation benefits when they experience a “mental injury premised upon extraordinary work-related stress incurred at work. ”  The amendment effectively expands an earlier 2017 amendment to the law that provided a subset of first responders (i.e., certain police officers, firefighters, etc.) workers’ compensation benefits eligibility when they endure extraordinary stress from a work-related emergency, such as PTSD (or similar conditions).  Now, not only can any employee seek workers’ compensation benefits for mental injury premised upon extraordinary work-related stress, but they can also do so   regardless  of whether their injury stems from a work-related emergency or not.  Typically, an employee is unable to obtain workers’ compensation benefits for mental injuries if the stress...