Employment

The Department of Health runs a criminal background check on most home health aides and certified nurse aides in New York. Here’s what you should know about the Department of Health’s criminal background check process.

If you work in New York City, you can earn up to 40 hours of sick leave each year to take care for yourself, your child, and other family members.

You have the right and employers have the obligation to maintain a workplace free of discrimination.

Protect your rights for minimum wage, overtime, unpaid wages, and other wage and hour issues.

In New York, most employers and agencies can only deny you a job or license because of your criminal conviction if there’s a direct connection between the work and the offense or if giving you the job or license would involve an unreasonable risk to people or property. Here’s what you should know to prevent wrongful discrimination.

Some hospital employers, government employers, and government licensing agencies can obtain your criminal record. Learn how to access your own records, and handle the process below.

Certificates of Relief from Disabilities and Certificates of Good Conduct are documents that can help people with convictions obtain employment, housing, and other benefits.

Unemployment insurance is an assistance program for temporarily unemployed workers run by the New York State Department of Labor. You do not have to be a U.S. citizen or hold a Green Card to qualify for this benefit but you must have been working with a valid work permit and currently possess a valid work permit. Learn more about the benefits you might be entitled to below.