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Corbin Carter

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Associate

[email protected]

+1.212.692.6244

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Corbin Carter is a solution-oriented employment counselor and litigator who guides clients through all aspects of the employment lifecycle. Corbin advises businesses across a wide range of industries, including financial services, technology, life sciences, healthcare, and real estate, with clients ranging from startups to established multinational companies.  Corbin’s practice covers everything from offering day-to-day employment advice to leading the management-side defense and prosecution of various employment-related claims at the trial and appellate level. In each situation, Corbin strives to understand his clients’ business needs and presents tailored, practical solutions. Chambers USA recognizes Corbin as having “a great knowledge of the law and superior analytic and communication skills."

Corbin works closely with executives, senior managers, and Human Resources professionals, counseling on myriad issues such as discrimination, harassment and retaliation, wage and hour, leaves and accommodations, performance management, hiring and retention, restrictive covenant issues, and other employment-related matters. As part of his practice, Corbin frequently drafts and revises employment policies and agreements to ensure multi-jurisdictional compliance and industry best practices, conducts workplace professionalism trainings for managers and employees, advises business clients on risk mitigation strategies, and serves as an employment specialist during corporate transactions. Corbin has also conducted numerous sensitive workplace investigations, including into allegations of sexual harassment and other complaints of workplace wrongdoing.

At Mintz, Corbin serves on the Steering Committee for Mintz Pride, a group dedicated to supporting LGBTQ attorneys and staff at the Firm and advocating for LGBTQ visibility and equality. Corbin also sits on the Firm’s Associate Committee, which acts as a liaison between Firm leadership and Associates. Corbin frequently writes and speaks on relevant employment law topics, and has served as the Associate Editor of Mintz’s award-winning employment blog.

Prior to joining Mintz, Corbin gained extensive experience as an Assistant Corporation Counsel within the New York City Law Department’s Labor and Employment Law Division, where he served as lead counsel for the City of New York, its agencies, and its management employees in a wide variety of employment-related litigation matters before federal and state courts.  In that role, Corbin successfully briefed and argued dozens of dispositive motions and negotiated numerous favorable resolutions in cases involving claims under Title VII, the ADA, the ADEA, the FLSA, the FMLA, the First Amendment, the New York Labor Law, the NYS and NYC Human Rights Laws, various other federal, state, and local statutes, and common law claims.

Corbin’s additional legal experience includes fellowships and internships with the Office of Legal Counsel at the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, the Boston Regional Solicitor’s Office of the U.S. Department of Labor, and the Massachusetts Office of the Inspector General. In law school, Corbin served as managing editor of the American Journal of Law & Medicine, as a director of the J. Newton Esdaile Appellate Moot Court Program, and as co-president of the Public Interest Project.

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The New York State Department of Labor (NYSDOL) has published guidance regarding employee cannabis use. 
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The EEOC has updated its technical guidance and answers to add six religious accommodation-based questions and answers in a new Section L (Vaccinations – Title VII and Religious Objections to COVID-19 Vaccine Mandates).  The updated guidance does not necessarily break new ground in this area; instead, it mostly reinforces several preexisting concepts, including (i) how employers should analyze the religious nature and sincerity of an employee’s belief; (ii) what might constitute “undue hardship”; and (iii) the need for employers to analyze each accommodation request on a case-by-case basis.  We break down the updated guidance further below. 
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The New York State Department of Health Commissioner has extended the designation of COVID-19 as a “highly contagious communicable disease that presents a serious risk of harm to the public health in New York State” until October 31, 2021.
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The Biden Administration, via its Safer Federal Workforce Task Force (the “Task Force”), has now provided the guidance with which federal contractor and subcontractors must comply in connection with their contracts and contract-like instruments with the Federal government.
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The New York State Commissioner of Health has designated COVID-19 as a “highly contagious communicable disease that presents a serious risk of harm to the public health.” This means that the HERO Act’s many requirements are no longer theoretical: Almost all private New York employers must now activate their HERO Act-compliant workplace exposure prevention plans and take numerous implementation steps required by the recently enacted law. Per the Commissioner’s designation notice, the “activation” designation will remain in effect until at least September 30, 2021, at which point the Commissioner will review the level of transmission of COVID-19 in New York State and determine whether to continue this designation.
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The Biden Administration yesterday unveiled its Path out of the Pandemic – a six-pronged plan designed to further combat COVID-19.
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The NYC Commission on Human Rights (the Commission) has released updated enforcement guidance regarding the Fair Chance Act. New York City amended the Fair Chance Act last year and those changes will go into effect on July 29, 2021.
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The New York State Department of Labor (NYSDOL) has released its HERO Act minimum standards and template policies related to airborne infectious disease prevention. Employers now have 30 days after the standards’ publication – until August 5, 2021 – to either: (1) adopt one of the model standard exposure prevention plans applicable to their industry, or (2) develop and establish an alternative prevention plan that meets or exceeds the minimum standards.
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The CDC’s latest guidance lifting many restrictions for most fully vaccinated individuals has forced employers to consider whether and how to implement workplace vaccination policies. During this webinar, our speakers explored the current workplace vaccine compliance landscape and offered best practices for implementing vaccination policies aimed at making workplaces safe and while accounting for jurisdictional, political, philosophical and physical divides.
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It’s been a long road to recovery for employers since New York first issued its NY Forward reopening requirements for offices and other similar environments back in May 2020.  Today, as New York reached a key vaccination metric – 70% of adults have now received at least one vaccine shot – Governor Cuomo announced that New York businesses will no longer be required to abide by the current industry-specific guidelines in order to reopen.  Accordingly, the current NY Forward guidelines on capacity restrictions, social distancing, cleaning and disinfection, health screenings, contact tracing, and other virus-related restrictions are now lifted in most commercial settings. 
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News & Press

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Legal Dive quoted a recent article written by Mintz attorneys Michael ArnoldAndrew BernsteinCorbin Carter, and Evan Piercey in a story discussing New York Gov. Kathy Hochul’s concerns surrounding a proposed noncompete ban.

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NEW YORK – Mintz is pleased to announce that 18 attorneys have been named New York Metro Super Lawyers and 11 attorneys have been named New York Metro Rising Stars by Super Lawyers for 2023.

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Member Andrew Bernstein and Associates Corbin Carter and Evan Piercey co-authored an article published by the New York Law Journal summarizing the proposed New York legislation on non-competes.

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BOSTON –Mintz announced today that 39 of its practices and 81 of its attorneys earned recognition in the 2023 edition of Chambers USA, a guide to the country’s leading law firms.

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Bloomberg Law quoted Associate Corbin Carter on the planned revisions for New York's salary disclosure law, which will bring more clarity around the law's impact on ads for remote positions where the line manager is based in New York.

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Mintz Of Counsel Michelle Capezza and Associates Evan Piercey and Corbin Carter co-authored an article published in the New York Law Journal which analyzes NYC Local Law 144, its impact on employers in New York City and their use of automated employment decision tools (AEDTs).

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Mintz's Corbin Carter spoke to SHRM regarding the estimation that a third of businesses still require employees to receive COVID-19 vaccinations.

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Mintz's Corbin Carter spoke to Law360 about a new set of rules in New York around the use of automated programs in recruiting and hiring.

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17 Mintz attorneys have been named New York Metro Super Lawyers and nine Mintz attorneys have been named New York Metro Rising Stars by Super Lawyers for 2022.

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Mintz Associate Corbin Carter was quoted in an article published by the Society for Human Resource Management’s HR Magazine addressing whether employers should keep preparing to comply with the Biden administration’s COVID-19 vaccine-or-testing directive while implementation is suspended as legal challenges play out.
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Mintz attorney Corbin Carter was quoted extensively in an article published by SHRM’s HR Magazine that examined the risks employers may face when enforcing no-mask mandates in the workplace, including health risks, legal risks, and employee relations concerns.
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Mintz Member Katharine Beattie and Associate Corbin Carter were quoted extensively in an article published by EHS Today on legal considerations, best practices, and suggested policies for employers permitting telework to reduce the spread of the new coronavirus (COVID-19).
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Recognition & Awards

  • Chambers USA: New York Labor & Employment, Associates to Watch (2021-2024)

  • New York Super Lawyers Rising Stars: Employment Litigation (2022 - 2023)

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Involvement

  • Board of Directors, University of Oklahoma LGBT Alumni Society
  • Member, The National LGBTQ+ Bar Association
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