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Emily Haigh and Devjani Mishra from Littler’s Manhattan office provide the inside scoop on some of New York City’s newest workplace regulations. Emily and Devjani first explore how the cooperative dialogue ordinance affects the procedures that employers use to evaluate employee accommodation requests. They discuss the law’s dialogue and documentation requirements plus how the law interacts with other NYC ordinances, including the paid sick and safe time and temporary scheduling laws. Emily and Devjani also review the city’s new lactation accommodation law, which takes effect on March 18, 2019.