Eric Raphan

November 03, 2017 | New York Law Journal

Eric Raphan and Lindsay C. Stone write: While the New York Paid Family Leave Benefits Law may impose new or unfamiliar obligations upon New York employers, compliance with the law's requirements by Jan. 1, 2018 is essential.

By Eric Raphan and Lindsay C. Stone

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March 23, 2017 | New York Law Journal

Eric Raphan and Lindsay R. Colvin discuss how Judge Gorsuch's textualist approach to statutory interpretation, limited deference to administrative agencies, and heightened protection for free speech and expression may affect critical labor and employment law issues predicted to come before the Supreme Court during the Trump administration, including: the enforceability of mandatory class action waivers in employment agreements; whether Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 prohibits employment discrimination based on sexual orientation; and the constitutionality of agency fee requirements for employees who are a member of a bargaining unit, but not the union who represents it.

By Eric Raphan and Lindsay R. Colvin

29 minute read

February 29, 2016 | New York Law Journal

Eric Raphan and Lindsay Colvin of Sheppard, Mullin, Richter & Hampton recommend steps New York City employers should take—as well as policies they should consider adopting—in order to fully comply with recently issued guidelines prohibiting gender identity discrimination in employment.

By Eric Raphan and Lindsay Colvin

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March 10, 2014 | New York Law Journal

Eric Raphan, Jonathan Stoler and Sean J. Kirby of Sheppard, Mullin, Richter & Hampton, write: Given recent NLRB decisions, and the NLRB's stated intention to continue focusing on such cases, employers must take steps to ensure that their social media policies will pass NLRB scrutiny, while still protecting themselves in situations where an employee has posted unfavorable comments about the employer on social media.

By Eric Raphan, Jonathan Stoler and Sean J. Kirby

11 minute read

April 27, 2009 | National Law Journal

Employers face difficult cost-cutting decisions on a daily basis in an effort to survive. Most common among those decisions is whether an employer should reduce its work force to minimize costs. Yet even in this economic climate, there are alternatives to work force reductions. Many of these options allow employers to accomplish some or all of their economic goals without taking a measure as extreme as reducing their work force.

By Jonathan Stoler and Eric Raphan / Special to The National Law Journal

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December 10, 2012 | New York Law Journal

Eric Raphan, a partner at Sheppard, Mullin, Richter & Hampton, writes that as the previous four years have shown, this political landscape created substantial gridlock that stymied Obama's efforts to implement many of the initiatives that he had hoped to pass into law when he was first elected in 2008, and while certain employers may expect much of the same until the political landscape changes, this will not necessarily be the case.

By Eric Raphan

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