Employment Services

Developing clear employment practice policies is crucial to preventing — or minimizing the likelihood of — labor and employment problems within your business.

Helbraun Levey has a dedicated team of attorneys and professionals that focus on Employment Practices and understand the complex issues that often arise in the hospitality industry. Whether it is maintaining compliance with various federal, state and/or city legislation like the Fair Labor Standards Act, New York City’s Safe and Sick Leave Act or New York State’s Paid Family Leave Act or protecting your employees from workplace harassment and discrimination, our team is available to advise you on employment best practices.

Employment Practices and Compliance Advisory

Helbraun Levey offers an Employment Legislation and Compliance Review, a suite of fully customizable services to ensure your business’s internal policies comply with local, federal and state laws, including hiring procedures, wage and hour compliance, hospitality industry-specific documentation, and comprehensive HR policies for a multitude of employee concerns.

Our team will begin with a site visit to evaluate your business’s current level of compliance and take note of any potential liabilities. Upon review of the practices that you have in place, we will work closely with you to create an Employee Handbook and set of accompanying policies, specifically-tailored for your needs. We will not only work with you to develop new policies that comply with the applicable local, federal and state law, but we’ll also ensure that your new policies are put into practice smoothly and successfully.

To accomplish these goals, depending on your specific situation, we offer the following services.

Employee Handbook Development: We will work with you to generate a customized employee handbook tailored to your specific business needs.

Employment Startup Counseling for New Operators: The Startup Counseling services provide new businesses with the necessary employment best practices and procedures, an Employee Handbook, and an Employment Practices Manual. The Employment Practices Manual will serve as your go-to reference guide and covers hiring and termination practices, wage and hour compliance, regulator contact information, documentation checklists, copies of New York regulations and requirements, and more.

A Startup Kit includes:

• A Customized Employment Application
• An Employment Practices Manual
• An Employee Handbook
• A Follow-Up Implementation Plan

Employment Compliance Counseling for Existing Operators: Building on our Startup Services, our team is available to audit your existing business and ultimately correct any non-compliance issues while ensuring compliance moving forward.

A Compliance Kit includes:

• An Audit of Employment Practices
• A Customized Employment Application
• An Employee Handbook with Policies
• An Employment Practices Manual
• A Follow-Up Implementation Plan

Employee and Management Training: Sexual Harassment Prevention and Identification & Sensitivity Training

Sexual harassment prevention training teaches employees, supervisors and managers how to identify, respond to, and report all forms of workplace harassment or discrimination. To foster a healthy workplace culture, it is important to educate your organization’s leadership and employees on what constitutes workplace or sexual harassment, the different forms of harassment, and how to effectively resolve the situation. The most successful way to a create a workplace free from sexual harassment is to empower your supervisors by giving them the tools they need to identify warning signs and follow proper prevention protocols.

Helbraun Levey provides Sexual and Workplace Harassment Prevention training, as well as sensitivity training to both supervisors and employees.

The Harassment Prevention Training for Managers Syllabus covers:

• Creating a Healthy Workplace
• Leadership Behavior Expectations
• How to Handle Complaints