Reports indicate that the New York State legislature and Governor Cuomo have tentatively reached agreement regarding the terms of the anticipated proposed increase in the state’s minimum wage. As portrayed in news coverage, the latest proposal would increase the minimum wage to $8/hour in 2014, $8.75/hour in 2015 and $9/hour by 2016, but not tie further
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I Can’t Go to Jail For Wage and Hour Violations – Or Can I? (Part 2)
By Noel P. Tripp on
Posted in New York State
As discussed here, a New York appellate court recently upheld the conviction of a corporate officer who oversaw a policy of providing “loans” to employees in lieu of wages. Now, another intermediate New York court has followed suit, affirming the conviction, upon a guilty plea, of Spiridon Anthoulis for “grand larceny in the third degree…