FRB Partner Hon. Ruth Bogatyrow Kraft was recently named to the National Small Business Association (NSBA) Leadership Council. NSBA is the nation’s oldest small-business advocacy organization, and operates on a staunchly...
Category: Labor & Employment
By: Hon. Ruth B. Kraft Understanding PAGA’s Impact California’s Private Attorneys’ General Act, or PAGA, just celebrated its 20th birthday despite repeated, failed attempts at its repeal. California’s Labor Code is...
Falcon Rappaport & Berkman is pleased to announce that Partner Hon. Ruth Bogatyrow Kraft has been named Chair of the firm’s Labor and Employment Practice Group. Ruth’s practice continues to enhance FRB’s capacity to...
By: Hon. Ruth B. Kraft and Moish E. Peltz, Esq. In 2022, plaintiffs filed a record number of website accessibility lawsuits against businesses in the federal court system—a total of 3,225. To put this number into...
By: Hon. Ruth Bogatyrow Kraft and James M. Black II, Esq. This week, the United States Supreme Court, in Students for Fair Admissions, Inc. v. the University of North Carolina and Students for Fair Admissions, Inc. v. the...
By: Andrew P. Cooper, Esq., LL.M., Hon. Ruth Bogatyrow Kraft, and Terran Cooper Don’t Forget, Cannabis Businesses Are Still Businesses: Overlooked Employment Considerations Working in the cannabis industry is no walk in the...
The Long Island Chapter of the Labor and Employment Relations Association (LERA) is hosting its Spring Conference 2023 at the Nassau County Bar Association on May 12th. This conference enables the field of industrial and...
By: Hon. Ruth Bogatyrow Kraft In a class action suit brought on March 16, 2023, a visitor to an Amazon Go convenience store in New York City alleged that the company violated the New York City biometric posting statute. That...
By: Hon. Ruth Bogatyrow Kraft Last week, President Biden marked the 30th anniversary of the Family and Medical Leave Act (FMLA) with a call for a national program providing leave for medical or caregiving needs. The United...
By: Hon. Ruth Bogatyrow Kraft and Andrew P. Cooper, Esq., LL.M., with contributions from Terran Cooper. Typically, when businesses are in their infancy, management, often hampered by financial constraints, does not seek...