Employment Law Pitfalls for Small Businesses

This presentation offers insight into navigating the intricate landscape of employment law for compliance driven small businesses. Typically, most small businesses do not have a human resource executive or in-house employment counsel to know about the types of laws and issues that a business may face. Throughout our presentation we will touch upon topics such as the Wage Theft Prevention Act, Minimum Wage & Overtime Pay, Exempt vs. Non-Exempt Employees, Independent Contractor Misclassification, NYS Sick & Safe Leave, Accommodations and Leave, and Important Employer Materials. At Halpern & Scrom Law, we aim to equip small business owners with the knowledge and resources necessary to navigate these complexities to prevent issues down the road.

Presenters: Paul L. Scrom Jr., Partner & Ashley R. Miskovsky, an Associate at Halpern & Scrom Law PLLC.

Paul L. Scrom Jr., a Partner of Halpern & Scrom Law PLLC, has more than a decade of legal experience and devotes his practice to representing organizations in all employment law matters. Paul regularly advises Human Resources executives, in-house counsel, management and business owners on compliance and preventative measures in order to avoid expensive litigation and costly government penalties. His counsel includes issues of employee discipline, terminations, discrimination/harassment, wages and hours, independent contractor classifications, restrictive covenants and social media. Paul also prepares employee handbooks, employment agreements, separation agreements and other workplace documents.

Ashley R. Miskovsky, an Associate of Halpern & Scrom Law PLLC, specializes in drafting employment and separation agreements, preparing employee handbooks, state-specific addenda and multi-state digests for our clients. She conducts extensive research on federal, state, and local employment laws, focusing on wage and hour rules, employee classification regulations, and anti-discrimination developments. Additionally, Ashley prepares state-of-the-art training materials for the Firm’s popular client workshops in anti-harassment training and drafts reports summarizing the investigative findings of workplace misconduct allegations.