For commercial properties in Suffolk County, there is only a brief window of time to challenge your real estate tax. For 2023, the filing deadline is May 16. If you are not paying attention, you will miss this rapidly approaching deadline. This year, there is an unprecedented opportunity obtain lower taxes for Suffolk commercial properties. Why is that? Believe it or not, the red-hot housing…
On February 21, 2023, the National Labor Relations Board (“NLRB”) reversed its prior decisions in Baylor University Medical Center and IGT d/b/a International Game Technology, returning to a longstanding precedent holding that employers may not offer employees severance/separation agreements that require employees to broadly waive their rights under the National Labor Relations Act (“Act”). The NLRB’s decision explains that simply offering employees a sever severance/separation…
Forchelli Deegan Terrana LLP congratulates Partner and Co-Chair of the firm’s Tax, Trusts & Estates practice group, Stephanie M. Alberts on recently being appointed as a Vice-Chair of the Continuing Legal Education Committee of the New York State Bar Association’s Trusts and Estates Law Section. In addition to the New York State and Nassau County Bar Association memberships, Ms. Alberts is a member of the…
Under the Occupational Safety and Health Act, most employers are required to maintain OSHA 300/300A logs throughout the year as well as post Form 300A in a common area at each workplace. Employers who (see below) are required to maintain Form 300, the Injury and Illness log, quarterly and must post Form 300A, the Summary of Work-Related Injuries and Illnesses, in a workplace common area…
Businesses in New York who operate warehouse and logistic centers need to be aware of the recently-enacted Article 21-A of the New York Labor Law that takes effect February 19, 2023. This new law requires warehouse and logistic businesses to disclose all speed quotas and penalties to warehouse distribution employees and provides that speed quotas may not interfere with any statutorily protected meal and bathroom…
Lisa M. Casa is a partner in the Employment and Labor Practice Group at Forchelli Deegan Terrana LLP in Uniondale. Casa concentrates her practice in the areas of employment and labor law; sexual harassment and discrimination law, overtime and failure to pay wages law, union/management issues, and litigation. Employers throughout the state should be prepared for New York's new pay transparency law. which takes effect…
Forchelli Deegan Terrana LLP (“FDT”) announced today the launch of a Condemnation practice group. Condemnation, or eminent domain, is the taking of private property by the government for public purposes. The practice group handles proceedings on behalf of clients with any interest in the property taken. The Condemnation practice group is chaired by Jason M. Penighetti, a partner and also a member of the firm’s…
Jeffrey D. Forchelli and John V. Terrana, Co-Managing Partners of Forchelli Deegan Terrana LLP (“FDT”), are proud to announce that the attorneys and staff of Koeppel Martone & Leistman, L.L.C. (“KML”), a regional power in real estate tax law, have joined the firm. The addition of KML to FDT’s existing Tax Certiorari practice group establishes FDT as the preeminent real estate tax law firm in…
Forchelli Deegan Terrana LLP (“FDT”) welcomes Gianni V. Sbarro to the firm’s Land Use & Zoning practice group as an associate. Mr. Sbarro, a Sands Point, NY resident, earned his M.S. in Real Estate from New York University, his J.D. from St. John’s University School of Law, and his B.A. from Fairfield University.
New York City has now published its Order and FAQs to employers regarding its private employer vaccine mandate that is set to take effect on December 27, 2021. The Order and FAQs clarify that any employer who employs one or more employees in New York City must require all employees to provide proof of a vaccination shot by December 27, 2021. Employees who fail to…