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The new administration of President Donald Trump signals significant changes in federal labor and employment issues for businesses that also must cope with New York state’s much different set of policies.

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“It seems to me that the federal government, with the Trump administration, is going one way, and New York continues to go the other,” said Scott Piper, a partner at Harris Beach Murtha, who participated in an online a panel discussion Thursday, hosted by The Daily Record.

Piper was joined by Jacob Lewis and James R. O’Connor, attorneys at Phillips Lytle LLP. The panel discussion was sponsored by Harris Beach Murtha and Phillips Lytle LLP.

The EEOC is a bipartisan panel with five presidentially appointed members, including a chair, a vice chair, and three commissioners, O’Connor explained.

The chair, the vice chair, and one of the commissioners are from the majority party. The other two members are from the minority.

“We’ve got a shakeup in the makeup of the EEOC,” O’Connor said.

Andrea Lucas, a commissioner on the minority side during the Biden administration, has been appointed acting chair by Trump, who also took steps to remove the two Democratic commissioners, Jocelyn Samuels, and Charlotte Burrows, O’Connor said.

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