Pro Bono Barrister: Third Ave. business leaders view thorny employment laws
No sooner had attorney Bob Howe returned to Brooklyn than, as president of the Third Avenue Merchants, he hosted a timely “Employment Law Forum.” The program’s purpose was to inform local businesses of some dramatic changes in employment law that will accord employees enhanced legal status. This is related to the de Blasio Administration’s determination to battle “income inequality.”
Business owners and local lawyers received a very provocative presentation by a nationwide law firm that is focusing on new problems facing small businesses starting this year. In a well-designed, bullet-point lecture, attorney Daniel Gomez-Sanchez of the nationwide firm of Jackson-Lewis, which predominantly represents employers, held the rapt attention of his audience, many of whose members are business proprietors.
“While many local business owners believe they often received short shrift under the Bloomberg Administration,” one lawyer in attendance said, “after hearing Gomez-Sanchez, it seems that the incoming laws and regulations are too complex, are very onerous and and will be a burden on local businesses.”