NLRB General Counsel Continues Challenge to Non-Compete Agreements, Announces Position on Sign-On Bonuses and Other "Stay-or-Pay" Provisions. This pamphlet is intended to provide Employers and Employees with general information about their employment rights and responsibilities in New York State.All aspects of employment, including: •. Discharge, firing, or lay-off. •. We enforce the State Labor Laws for minimum wage, hours of work, employment of minors, payment of wages, farm labor, nursing mothers in the workplace, and more. The state opening of parliament speech confirmed the Labour government will legislate to introduce a new deal for working people to "ban exploitative practices. Areas of research: Employment Law, Labor Law, Labor Standards and the Regulation of Work, Transnational Labor Law (esp. If you're an at-will employee, you can be fired for any reason or no reason. But you can't be fired for an illegal reason. 'Greatest change to employment law in more than a generation'.