On September 30, 2014, Mayor Bill de Blasio signed an executive order that will increase the minimum wage for workers who are employed at economic benefit projects that received at least one million dollars in subsidies from New York City. Specifically, the order requires employers who employ individuals at locations that were developed as part of an economic benefit projects that received at least one million dollars, effective immediately, to pay their employees at […]

An employee’s demand for a bonus and assertion that his employment relationship would not be “fruitful” and that his employer could fire him, was the reason for his dismissal, a court has decided. The dismissal was not retaliation for raising safety concerns.

The employer did environmental assessment and testing. The employee was a laboratory manager. In December 2009, the employer told him that he would not get a performance bonus because he did not meet […]