Robin D. Fessel

New York Wage Theft Prevention Act - Domestic Employees: Reminder Regarding Requirement to Provide Employees, Including Household Employees, with Written Annual Wage Notification By February 1, 2012
James I. Black,Charles T. Dowling,Robin D. Fessel,Theodore O. Rogers, January 20, 2012
As described in our memorandum dated November 18, 2011, the New York Wage Theft Prevention Act (“WTPA”) requires all private sector employers who engage employees to perform services in New York to provide such employees with an annual written notice of wages. The first yearly notice to...

New York Wage Theft Prevention Act: New Requirement for Employers to Provide All Employees with Written Annual Wage Notification Comes Into Effect February 1, 2012
Robin D. Fessel,Theodore O. Rogers, November 25, 2011
The New York State Wage Theft Prevention Act (“WTPA”), which was enacted earlier this year, imposes new requirements on all private sector employers to provide employees with annual written notice of wages, and to obtain employees’ acknowledgement of the notice. The first yearly...

Class Arbitration Waivers: U.S. Supreme Court Upholds Class Arbitration Waiver
David H. Braff,Robin D. Fessel,Robert J. Giuffra,Joseph E. Neuhaus,Richard C. Pepperman,Theodore O. Rogers, May 10, 2011
The Supreme Court of the United States last week issued a 5-4 decision in AT&T Mobility LLC v. Concepcion, --- S. Ct. ---, 2011 WL 1561956 (U.S. Apr. 27, 2011), holding that arbitration agreements waiving class arbitration are enforceable in accordance with their terms. In reversing the Ninth...