Many employees work in restaurants, hair salons and other types of businesses where they typically are tipped by customers. If that describes your job, you probably also spend some of your time at work assigned to tasks where you're not dealing directly with customers...
New Jersey Employment Law Blog
Workers’ Comp Benefits Expanded For Essential Employees Diagnosed With COVID-19
In July of 2019, Governor Murphy signed into law the "Thomas P. Canzanella Twenty First Century First Responders Protection Act," which expanded workers' compensation benefits to "public safety workers" who become ill as a result of exposure to diseases or toxins by...
Are you a waitress being sexually harassed by your customers?
Waiters and waitresses work hard. Here in New Jersey, the tipped wage for servers is only $3.13 an hour, with the wait staff's tips supposed to make up the rest of the gap toward the $11 minimum wage.That disparity can make servers feel like they have to allow...
Are you the victim of a workplace bully?
You thought you were finished with bullying long ago, but it seems like you're going through it all over again – this time by grown adults in the workplace. If you are, you're not alone. People are bullied by coworkers and even bosses all the time.Sometimes it's done...
State’s high court rules Pfizer can’t be sued by former employee
A recent New Jersey Supreme Court ruling was called "a dark day for employees" by the plaintiff's attorney. The August ruling addressed the flight attendant's ability to sue her former employer, Pfizer, for religious discrimination rather than the grounds for the...
What wage and hour theft protections does New Jersey offer?
States across the country have enacted laws in recent years that carry serious penalties for employers who violate wage and hour laws and shortchange employees for their time and work. The New Jersey Wage Theft Law, which is just over a year old, is one of the...
COVID-19 as a Work-Related Illness: Are You Eligible?
COVID-19 has pushed the American healthcare system to its limits. Fortunately, the New Jersey workers' compensation system offers benefits to some workers who likely contracted the virus as part of their employment. In July 2019, Governor Phil Murphy signed into law...
Can your employer make you pay for a loss?
We all make mistakes on the job. No business can expect their employees to be perfect. If someone makes enough mistakes, of course, they could find themselves out of a job.What if you made one mistake, and your employer is able to put a price tag on the loss? What if...
New Jersey lawsuit against McDonald’s is one of many
A woman who worked at a McDonald's in Farmingdale, New Jersey, has filed a lawsuit against the fast-food giant. She says that after reporting unsanitary and unsafe conditions that were "endemic to the workplace," she was called racist, sexist and other derogatory...
Were you retaliated against for reporting a coworker?
You had been doing a great job at work. You just received a raise, and you had been promoted to a higher position. Things were going great, other than the coworker who wouldn't leave you alone.Something that you weren't expecting was to make an allegation of sexual...