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Children’s Grief During Divorce

As family mediators, we see parents so enmeshed in the throes of conflict, they don’t recognize that their children are grieving let alone help them through the process. Knowing more about grieving myths and children’s grieving process will help us better support our clients as they process their own feelings and help their children grieve.

Mediation Reduces Impact Of High Conflict On Young Children

Divorce mediation helps parents minimize their conflict and restructure their connection to form a new parenting relationship even before the completion of the divorce. Litigation often focuses on why one parent is ineffective and inferior prompting more anger and more conflict.

How to Discuss Divorce Mediation When Your Spouse Doesn't Know You Want a Divorce

Even if you can’t talk to each other mediation is effective, but both of you must agree to try.

Five New Immigration Judges Sworn In On February 8, 2018

On February 8, 2018, the Executive Office for Immigration Review (EOIR) announced the swearing in of five new immigration judges.

Am I An Employee

Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 prohibits employers from discriminating against employees based on, among other reasons, the employee's race, religion, national origin, and sex.

Vaccines

With many states declaring flu epidemics and with the spread of other communicable diseases, many employers, particularly in the health care industry, are requiring employees to receive vaccinations.

Snow Days

Long Island is prone to Nor'Easters and other significant snow and weather events. A popular question is whether employers must pay their employees when the business closes due to snow or other inclement weather. Today's Long Island employment law blog discusses pay issues related to weather emergencies.

FMLA Retaliation Standard Relaxed

The Family Medical Leave Act (“FMLA”) is a federal law which allows eligible employees to take a leave of absence from work for several reasons such as when dealing with a serious health condition of the employee or their family.

Arbitrating Employment Wage Cases

Many employers include an arbitration clause in their employment contracts. An employee who signs this contract, gives up his or her right to sue in court over any job-related issues that may arise such as claims for wrongful termination, minimum wage payment violations, and overtime pay violations. Today's employment law blog discusses recent developments about the applicability of arbitration clauses to claims of unpaid wages and overtime in New York.

New York Class Action Lawsuits

In employment law, discrimination and unpaid wage and overtime cases are sometimes brought as class actions. Class actions allow one or more employees to represent a larger group of employees who have been harmed in a similar way as the “class representatives.” By bringing a case as a class action, the court can hear the dispute in a more efficient way than hearing perhaps hundreds of individual employees' cases. Today's Long Island employment law blog explores an unsettled question about settling cases involving class actions.

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