Long Island Employment Law Blog

By Famighetti & Weinick PLLC | October 14, 2026 Most workers have shown up to a locked door at some point. But what if your employer told you to arrive early, you did, and you were left standing outside, unpaid, because no manager had come to open up? On October 13, 2026, the Second Circuit…

On September 21, 2026, the Second Circuit issued an important decision concerning workplace retaliation in Newton v. LVMH Moët Hennessy Louis Vuitton Inc. The court held that an employee who declines her employer’s invitation to negotiate a settlement of her pending discrimination claims may be engaging in protected activity under federal, state, and city law.…

New York has just given workers a powerful new tool to see what’s in their employment file, and to fight back when it contains something false. On September 9, 2026, Governor Hochul signed Senate Bill S3460 into law as Chapter 293 of the Laws of 2026, adding a new Section 210-b to the New York…

The Second Circuit has just rewritten the rulebook for religious accommodation claims under Title VII, a change that matters for employers and employees in the Court’s jurisdiction, including in New York, Connecticut, and Vermont. In Bergin v. New York State Unified Court System, decided in September 2026, the Court of Appeals held that a Supreme…

Employees with disabilities who feel their employer’s “accommodation” was little more than a token gesture just got a helpful reminder from the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit: an accommodation isn’t reasonable simply because the employer did something. It has to actually work. That was the central holding in Raymond v. 1199SEIU National…

On July 15, 2026, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit issued an important decision in Bergin v. New York State Unified Court System, No. 25-721, that changes how employees in New York, Connecticut, and Vermont must prove failure-to-accommodate religion claims under Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. For employees…

Famighetti & Weinick PLLC has won an appeal of a housing discrimination case. The decision was unanimous from the panel of appellate judges. Today’s blog discusses the case. The facts below are taken from the publicly available documents filed in the case of Forrester v. Tichenor, et. al. F&W filed a discrimination lawsuit on behalf…

On April 29, 2026, Famighetti & Weinick PLLC won an appeal of a civil service determination which disqualified the firm’s client from his dream job of being a police officer. The firm’s arguments were so robust and powerful, that it took the civil service just one day to issue a decision. Today’s Long Island employment…

New York Labor Law Section 201-d provides some workplace protections for employees who engage in, among other things, lawful recreational off-duty activities. This broad protection is somewhat ill-defined. The law, passed before the proliferation of social media and other electronic communications, could not have considered whether these modern day internet activities fall under the statute’s…

In a decision issued December 3, 2025, the Second Circuit Court of Appeals sitting in New York affirmed a substantial jury verdict in favor of a former high-school principal — one that underscores the continued vitality of gender-discrimination protections under Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the New York State Human…