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Louis P. DiLorenzo (Editor)

New York Employment Law

LDiLorenzo@BSK.com
(646) 253-2315

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Louis P. DiLorenzo has practiced labor and employment law for 30 years and is co-chair of Bond, Schoeneck & King’s Labor and Employment Law Department. He is managing partner of the firm’s New York City and Garden City offices. Mr. DiLorenzo represents employers and management in all aspects of labor and employment law. His areas of expertise include collective bargaining, workplace investigations, NLRB proceedings, labor audits, supervisory training, wage and hour issues, arbitration, jury trials in both state and federal courts, wage incentive plans, OFCCP audits and proceedings, employment litigation before the EEOC and the Human Rights Division and alternative dispute resolution techniques.

Dole out even the small perks equally

01/01/2007

Employee benefits involve more than just health care and life insurance. Less-noticeable perks—like prime office locations and trips to out-of-town conferences—can also count, and they can become the grounds for discrimination …

NYC chef accused of sexually harassing waitress

01/01/2007

Employers should never look the other way if they know about a supervisor’s harassing behavior. Investigate every complaint and promptly discipline harassers …

New York insurers must now cover certain autism disorders

01/01/2007

Effective Jan. 1, all newly issued health insurance policies in New York must cover autism spectrum disorders. Gov. George Pataki signed the measure ordering the changes last September …

Hip-Hop editor wins millions in sex discrimination trial

01/01/2007

A New York jury has awarded the former editor-in-chief of The Source, a hip-hop magazine, $15.5 million in damages from her sex discrimination lawsuit …

Davis Vision loses NY contract; unions concerned about job cuts

01/01/2007

After 23 years, New York-based Davis Vision has lost its contract to provide vision benefits to state employees …

Set objective criteria for renewing employee contracts

01/01/2007

A former math teacher at Canisius High School in Buffalo recently filed suit against the school, alleging she was wrongly denied tenure despite her excellent reviews …

How to comply with New York’s new Military Spouse Leave Law

01/01/2007

In August 2006, Gov. George Pataki signed New York’s new Military Spouse Leave Law, which allows spouses of deployed military reservists to take up to 10 days of unpaid leave from work each year …

Handle application liars consistently: Reject all or none

12/01/2006

As an employer, you can’t always wait on a background check before offering a job, so you have to rely on applicants’ oral and written statements to make the offer. But when the background check comes back to reveal that the person lied, you have the absolute right to terminate that individual for dishonesty …

New incentive to speed up workers’ comp cases

12/01/2006

New York employers now have more incentive to move workers’ compensation cases along quicker if the case includes accusations that the employer retaliated against employees who filed a work-related injury claim …

Contract will still stick, even if employee fails to read it

12/01/2006

When faced with a multipage employment contract, some job candidates and employees may be tempted to skip a careful reading before they sign on the dotted line. But state courts won’t excuse employees who claim that they didn’t understand the employment terms because they never read them …