Under both state and federal employment laws, employees have a right to expect a workplace that is free of harassment and discrimination. Despite laws to the contrary, inappropriate and harassing acts and behaviors are often waged against women and men in the...
Year: 2013
Social media, social comments, salary no more for DPW worker
Employment laws are written to cover broad situations. For example, federal and state laws prohibit employers from discriminating against or harassing an individual based on their gender, and it would be considered a wrongful termination if an employee was fired for...
Bill eyes 1.2 million New Jersey workers without paid sick leave
In a lot of households, it is the mother who is called when a child gets sick at school or takes time off to help care for a relative with an illness. Many of these women are also the primary wage earners in their family. Yet, New Jersey law does not protect this...
Did integrity cost New Jersey tax assessor her job?
In life, there are politics both literal and figuratively. Literally, we have government, lawmakers, law enforcers and political parties. Figuratively, we have the type of politics that could cause one high school athlete to be given a position based on some factors...
New Jersey Employment and Civil Rights Attorney Discusses Supreme Court’s Decision in Gay Marriage Rulings and DOMA
July 31, 2013"New Jersey Employment and Civil Rights Attorney Discusses Supreme Court's Decision in Gay Marriage Rulings and DOMA.""Or . . . It's the 21st Century, Folks."I've been blogging on and off about the issue of equal marriage rights for years. As an...
New Jersey Employment and Civil Rights Attorney Discusses Supreme Court’s Decision on Voting Rights
"New Jersey Employment and Civil Rights Attorney Discusses Supreme Court's Decision on Voting Rights.""Or . . . Votes only for the Rich?"The United States Supreme Court recently dealt a crippling, and probably fatal, blow to the Voting Rights Act of 1965, by striking...
Can Food be Faith
Defining the concept of a "Religion" isn't always easy. Very often, it's a subjective exercise, very much in the eye of the beholder. As a Civil Rights Attorney, one of the types of cases we handle involves protecting faithful workers and students from bias based...
No Jury, No Justice
I find myself returning to common themes in these Blogs over the years. One of those themes is definitely the erosion of Civil Rights and Civil Liberties, an erosion sponsored by, engineered by and supported by corporate vested interests and corporate money. The...
New Jersey Employment Rights Lawyer Discusses Misclassification of Employees As Independent Contractors to Avoid Overtime Requirements of the Fair Labor Standards Act
This entry is guest written by my partner Deborah Mains.For some time now, there's been an ever-increasing trend by employers to classify or designate employees as "independent contractors" or as "1099 employees" in order to, among other things, evade their obligation...
Courts Unfriendly to Employment Plaintiffs-Harvard Study
The Harvard Law and Policy Review, the Official Journal of the American Constitution Society for Law and Policy, cites what seems to be a generally bad track record for the fair handling of plaintiff's employment cases in the Federal Courts. As an employment...