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September 21 2023
Client Alert: A Reminder – New York State’s Minimum Wage Will Increase December 31
New York employers will face a series of state-wide minimum wage increases beginning in 2024 and continuing indefinitely after 2027 in accordance with the Consumer Price Index.
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September 19 2023
Client Alert: Pay Transparency Law Takes Effect in New York State
As a reminder, New York State employers with at least 4 employees are now (as of 9/17/2023) required to disclose the compensation range they are willing to pay a successful applicant for any advertised job, promotion, or transfer, including to a pool of potential internal applicants (“Job Posting”). This should be familiar to New York City employers, which are already subject to similar requirements.
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September 13 2023
Paul Rooney, a member of the Firm, wrote an article for Total Food Service titled: “Legal Fall Cleaning: 4 Areas To Shore Up Your Compliance And Stay Clean.”
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September 13 2023
AgileAlgo Holdings Limited, a British Virgin Islands business company that, through its Singapore-based subsidiary, AgileAlgo Pte Ltd., is a maker of enterprise-grade natural language code generator for machine-learning and data management platforms and Inception Growth Acquisition Limited, a Delaware incorporated publicly traded special purpose acquisition company, announced they have entered into a definitive agreement for a business combination. Upon closing of the business combination, the combined company will be organized in the British Virgin Islands and renamed “Prodigy, Inc.” and expects to list its ordinary shares on Nasdaq under the ticker symbol “PRGY.” EGS is serving as legal advisor to AgileAlgo Holdings Limited.
September 12 2023
David R. Rothfeld, a member of the Firm, was a panelist on the 21st Annual Labor & Employment Law Roundtable held on September 11, 2023 at the Cornell Center for Innovative Hospitality Labor & Employment Relations.
September 05 2023
ScanTech Identification Beam Systems, LLC, an innovator of next-generation ‘fixed-gantry’ computed tomography (CT) screening systems based in Metro-Atlanta, Georgia, and Mars Acquisition Corp., a publicly traded special purpose acquisition company, announced that they have entered into a definitive business combination agreement that will result in ScanTech becoming a publicly listed company. The combined company is expected to have an estimated post-transaction enterprise value of $149.5 million. EGS is acting as legal counsel to ScanTech.
August 31 2023 Event
Quarterly Hospitality Roundtable: “What’s the next challenge?”
Please join a panel of experts from HUB International, Ellenoff Grossman & Schole LLP, the New York State Restaurant Association, Marcum LLP and Total Food Service magazine for our next must-attend, informative hospitality industry seminar, where they will address the most frequently asked questions, issues, and concerns on timely topics impacting the industry. This includes current impacts of ingredient inflation and interest rates, AI and robotics, ERP systems and financial data, labor outlook and much more.
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August 23 2023 Event
Disability Accessibility for Websites and Places of Public Accommodation Seminar September 19, 2023
Join lawyers from Ellenoff Grossman & Schole LLP and experts from Elite Strategies and United Spinal Association’s Accessibility Services for an in-person, complimentary breakfast event where we will review the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA), physical and website accessibility and earn CLE/SHRM credits.
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