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A Glimpse of the New York and New Jersey Employment Lawyer’s Recent Publication New York City, New York – WEBWIRE – Wednesday, September 16, 2020 Employment lawyer David S. Rich, founding member of The Law Offices of David S. Rich, LLC, has recently released “Executives and Professionals in New York: Your Rights at Work.” The book informs executives and professionals who are employed in New…Read More
Through a peer-reviewed nomination process, New York and New Jersey attorney is recognized as a 2020 New Jersey Super Lawyer® (Employment and Labor). Englewood Cliffs, NJ — Attorney David S. Rich has been selected as a 2020 New Jersey Super Lawyer® (Employment and Labor). Super Lawyers uses a patented, multi-step nomination process that involves peer review and independent research to…Read More

On May 13, 2019, after a four-day hearing, an arbitration panel of the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority, Inc. ("FINRA"), sitting in Chicago, Illinois, held that a claimant broker who wins a FINRA arbitration seeking expungement, from the broker's Form U-5 (Uniform Termination Notice for Securities Industry Registration) filed by the broker's respondent ex-employer upon the broker's termination, of specified employment-related…Read More

How And Why Brokerage Firms Disparage Brokers On The Brokers' Form U-5s Form U-5 (Uniform Termination Notice for Securities Industry Registration) is a form which, within 30 days, brokerage firms must complete and file with securities regulators to report the termination of a broker’s employment. On the Form U-5, the brokerage firm must report the reason for the broker’s termination,…Read More

A type of dispute which brokerage firms frequently arbitrate, before FINRA, against brokers concerns “transitional compensation” payments to brokers whom the firms have fired within a predetermined period of time. Such disputes are called promissory note, up-front bonus, recruiting bonus, forgivable loan, or employee forgivable loan ("EFL") cases. It is difficult, but by no means impossible, for a broker who…Read More

FINRA Declines To Fine, Suspend Or Expel Investment Banking Associate In New York Who Repeatedly Doctored Expense Receipts Recently, I was approached by a former investment banking associate ("the former associate," "the ex-associate," "my former associate client, or "my ex-associate client") who, over two years after she quit her employment with a brokerage firm in New York City and began…Read More
Through a peer-reviewed nomination process, New York and New Jersey attorney is recognized as a 2019 New Jersey Super Lawyer® (Employment and Labor). Englewood Cliffs, NJ — Attorney David S. Rich has been selected as a 2019 New Jersey Super Lawyer® (Employment and Labor). Super Lawyers uses a patented, multi-step nomination process that involves peer review and independent research to assess nominees.…Read More

On November 16, 2018, New York City Local Laws 185 and 186 of 2018 ("Local Laws 185 and 186" or the "new Laws") became law. Effective March 18, 2019, the new Laws require employers in New York City with four or more employees (i) to provide, to their employees, a private room in which employees may express breast milk (a…Read More

Your company in New York, in paying wages to its employees, must comply with both New York State and federal wage-and-hour laws. Your business’s wage-and-hour practices are financially important. Your company’s compliance with state and federal wage-and-hour laws in compensating employees is particularly monetarily significant with regard to employee classification, including: Exempt versus non-exempt status for purposes of eligibility for…Read More

Highly paid salespersons on Wall Street typically are paid a substantial percentage of their yearly compensation in commissions. A commission is compensation based on a percentage of the dollar amount of the salesperson's orders or sales. If you would like more information, contact our New York City Unpaid Commissions Lawyer for help. Under state and federal law, the failure of…Read More