Additional 2025 NY and NJ Employment Law Updates
Written By:
Courtney Gaccione
Ashley Whitney
Chiesa Shahinian & Giantomasi PC
As an update to our January 2025 New York and New Jersey Employment Law Alert, we want to remind employers that in addition to the newly enacted New York Paid Prenatal Leave and the updates to the New York Paid Family Leave discussed in the January Alert, New York employers also now have an obligation to provide paid lactation breaks discussed further below.
New York Paid Lactation Breaks
As of June 20, 2024, the New York State Labor Law (“NYSLL”), which already required employers to permit nursing employees to use available breaktime (whether paid or unpaid) to express milk, was amended to also require an additional paid thirty-minute lactation break. Furthermore, employers may not require an employee to work before or after their normal shift to make up for any time used to express milk during a paid break. Employer obligations regarding the provision of lactation rooms under the NYSLL have remained in place.
Other key provisions that were featured in the January alert:
- Increases to the minimum wage rates in New York and New Jersey.
- New York’s enactment of the Clean Slate Law requiring employers to provide applicants and employees with background check information.
- Sunsetting of New York’s requirement that employers provide COVID-19 Sick Leave.
- New Jersey’s enactment of the Wage Transparency Act requiring the disclosure of the hourly wage or salary for all posted positions.
If you have any questions regarding these updates, please contact your CSG Law attorney or the authors of this alert.