When you believe that your employer violates your rights, you have a responsibility to carefully consider your response. Not only do you want to make sure that you keep your rights and privileges protected from potential retaliatory behavior by your employer, you also...
Year: 2017
Proving retaliatory firing may mean getting creative
Many employees suspect that a former employer terminated them unfairly, but not all believe that they have sufficient grounds to pursue legal action against the employer for wrongful termination or retaliation. In order to prove that a particular firing was...
Are Human Resources Departments Useless, Or Actively Harmful?
Many people who find themselves the victim of sexual harassment or workplace discrimination are reluctant to report it to human resources. HR departments are, ostensibly, the right place to direct complaints about mistreatment. In reality, many of these departments...
State senate considers bill protecting employees’ rights
After a year that brought with it so many setbacks for working people across the country, a bright spot of good news emerged recently in the New Jersey State Senate. The senate recently introduced a bill protecting employees' rights to sue employers and third parties...
Can my employer keep me from discussing salary at work?
Many employers have surprisingly inaccurate ideas about what they can and cannot require of their employees, often placing guidelines into their employee handbooks or company policies that run contrary to the actual law of the land. In many, many instances, these...
Unsafe driving in New Jersey school zones
Bad driving is a threat to drivers, pedestrians and cyclists on roads all over the nation. Motor vehicle accidents claim tens of thousands of lives a year. Recently, there has been an uptick in fatal accidents per mile driven. Driving safety appears to be on the...
Sports bar ordered to pay back wages to former employees
Right down the road in New Brunswick, a sports bar recently faced a court order to pay almost $60,000 in unpaid wages to former employees. The order came after a multi-year lawsuit on the part of six former employees. According to the suit, the employees claimed that...
Are you an exempt employee under federal law?
Under the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA), many different types of employees may hold their employers accountable to pay them at least minimum wage and appropriate overtime pay for any more than 40 hours of work in a given work week. However, many other types of...
Identifying sexual harassment in the workplace
The last several months have seen a sudden and surprising sea change in the public conversation surrounding sexual harassment in many different work environments and professional settings. Understandably, this has lead to great confusion for many individuals who may...
New Jersey Employment and Civil Rights Trial Lawyer Discusses The Many “Firsts” of the 2017 Elections
Or..."Well, It Turns Out America Is Great Again, But For all the Right Reasons"Not that it really should surprise anyone of conscience or common sense, but the public approval of President Trump has dropped to a historic low. Yes, he's got his "core" base of people...