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On September 18, 2015, Fitapelli & Schaffer, LLP, filed a lawsuit in Supreme Court New York County against JPMorgan Chase & Co, and Abdool Shakur (collectively, Defendants). The lawsuit is filed on behalf of Gulshan Chhabra (“Plaintiff”), a former Relationship Banker at JPMorgan Chase & Co.

The lawsuit alleges Defendants discriminated against Plaintiff based on his age and retaliated against him, in violation of the New York City Human Rights Law (“NYCHRL”). Age is a protected category under the NYCHRL, therefore ...

On September 10, 2015, New York Commissioner of Labor Mario Musolino adopted the Fast Food Wage Board’s recommendations regarding increasing the minimum wage for fast food workers in New York to $15 per hour. The Order will take place thirty days after notice is published in at least ten newspapers in New York.

Musolino approved the phase-in schedules for the minimum wage increase in New York City and the rest of the state. New York City’s minimum wage for fast food ...

On August 27, 2015, the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) established a new standard to determine joint employer status under the National Labor Relations Act in Browning-Ferris Industries of California, Inc. The new standard substantially broadens what it means to be an employer, as it includes employers who only affect employment conditions indirectly, which will allow many more employers to fall in the joint employer category.

The Browning-Ferris decision overruled three cases, TLI, Laerco, and Airborne, that had set the previous ...

On Wednesday July 22, 2015, the New York Wage Board, appointed by Governor Andrew Cuomo, approved a proposal for minimum wage to be increased for workers in the fast food industry in New York City to $15 per hour. The increase would occur over a period of three years in New York City, and over a period of six years for the rest of New York.

The first wage increase would occur by December 31, 2015, raising the minimum wage in ...

The 2^nd Circuit Court of Appeals ruled on July 23, 2015 in Lola v. Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom et al that contract attorneys hired to perform document review could be eligible for overtime pay for hours worked over 40 per workweek. Though employers are not required to pay licensed attorneys overtime if their work is considered to be legal work, the 2^nd Circuit held that contract attorneys could potentially receive overtime pay if their work is so basic ...