New legislation aims to revamp the state's archaic and confusing laws amid the COVID-19 health crisis, reports City and State.

The Legal Aid Society's Richard Blum, part of our Employment Law Unit, takes questions from listeners on WNYC.

The legislation would create protections for essential workers and their families amid the COVID-19 outbreak, reports Kings County Politics.

A group of financial and legal experts share their best tips for navigating unemployment during the COVID-19 pandemic with Reuters.

Crucial unemployment benefits for the jobless are being bottlenecked by a convoluted review process, writes Gothamist.

A proposed "legal category" of employees would allow Uber to treat it's workers as contractors while affording them only partial employee benefits, reports the Los Angeles Times.

Richard Blum, a staff attorney in The Legal Aid Society’s Employment Law Unit, takes questions from listeners about how best to navigate the overburdened system.

As the Coronavirus outbreak has brought New York City to a standstill, workers transporting people and food have shouldered the burden of delivering essential services to homebound residents - even as they themselves face increased risk of exposure to the deadly virus, reports POLITICO.

The same full throttle e-bikes subjected to aggressive ticketing for low-income workers have been approved for use by large corporations, according to the New York Daily News.