{"id":1250,"date":"2023-09-28T12:20:24","date_gmt":"2023-09-28T16:20:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/eth.lnc.mybluehost.me\/eng\/?p=1250"},"modified":"2023-09-28T12:23:30","modified_gmt":"2023-09-28T16:23:30","slug":"new-york-strengthens-wage-theft-penalties-amends-labor-law","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/iiicareer.com\/eng\/2023\/09\/28\/new-york-strengthens-wage-theft-penalties-amends-labor-law\/","title":{"rendered":"New York Strengthens Wage Theft Penalties, Amends Labor Law"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"alignright size-full is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" src=\"https:\/\/iiicareer.com\/eng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Court-Law-Resized-01.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1658\" style=\"width:300px;height:undefinedpx\" srcset=\"https:\/\/iiicareer.com\/eng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Court-Law-Resized-01.png 800w, https:\/\/iiicareer.com\/eng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Court-Law-Resized-01-300x200.png 300w, https:\/\/iiicareer.com\/eng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Court-Law-Resized-01-768x512.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>New York has amended its Penal Law to&nbsp;increase&nbsp;the criminal penalties&nbsp;for wage&nbsp;theft, a&nbsp;form of criminal larceny.&nbsp; The amended law takes effect immediately.&nbsp; New York employers should review their pay policies and practices to ensure they are in compliance.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Governor of New York has also signed&nbsp;four bills amending the New York Labor Law, including the notification requirement for unemployment benefit eligibility which goes into effect on November 13, 2023.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Davis Wright Tremaine:<\/em><br><em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dwt.com\/blogs\/employment-labor-and-benefits\/2023\/09\/new-york-wage-theft-criminal-larceny\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">New York Amends Criminal Larceny Statute to Include Wage Theft<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Kramer Levin:<\/em><br><em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.kramerlevin.com\/en\/perspectives-search\/gov-hochul-signs-four-bills-amending-the-new-york-labor-law.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Gov. Hochul Signs Four Bills Amending the New York Labor Law<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New York has amended its Penal Law to&nbsp;increase&nbsp;the criminal penalties&nbsp;for wage&nbsp;theft, a&nbsp;form of criminal larceny.&nbsp; The amended law takes effect immediately.&nbsp; New York employers should review their pay policies and practices to ensure they are in compliance. The Governor of New York has also signed&nbsp;four bills amending the New York Labor Law, including the notification [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":1658,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1250","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-legal"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/iiicareer.com\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1250","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/iiicareer.com\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/iiicareer.com\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iiicareer.com\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iiicareer.com\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1250"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/iiicareer.com\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1250\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1873,"href":"https:\/\/iiicareer.com\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1250\/revisions\/1873"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iiicareer.com\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1658"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/iiicareer.com\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1250"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iiicareer.com\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1250"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iiicareer.com\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1250"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}