Because the fees in these cases, these discrimination, harassment and whistle blower cases almost always are subject to what we call those fee...
Whether to settle a case or to go to trial is always a tough decision. The important thing that my clients need to know is that I’m a...
New Jersey has a law called CEPA, the Consciences Employee Protection Act which affords employees protection against illegal retaliation for...
It depends if you have been harassed at work because you are a woman, because you are a man, based on your age or your sexual orientation,...
Religion based harassment is kind of a funny thing. Not everybody has a religion and not everybody has the same faith in their religion or...
Yes, a man can be sexually harassed. The New Jersey Law Against Discrimination does not limit its protection to women in terms of sexual...
Now under the New Jersey Law Against Discrimination which goes a little bit further than the Americans with Disabilities Act workers have the right...
Clients will sometimes ask me what about mediation, what about arbitration. Mediation is a process whereby a mediator, usually someone...
When I take your case and where I file suit depends on a lot of things, but most importantly it depends on where you live and where your employer...
The legislature in New Jersey in the 1940s passed a law called “The New Jersey Law Against Discrimination” and it’s really a...
When you make a complaint about harassment or retaliation or discrimination in the workplace your employer has an affirmative obligation to make...
Sometimes client will ask me if we go to directly to court in all cases or if we make a claim in the agencies they’ve heard deal with this...
When we talk about extreme and outrageous conduct in a harassment that’s so bad that not only is it actionable but it’s enough to make...
Arbitration of an employment case versus a union grievance comes up in a context where you don’t have a union; you don’t have a...
The important difference to know when it comes to civil rights cases versus other types of plaintiff’s litigation is that civil rights cases...
The New Jersey Law against discrimination talks about the issue of damages in employment discrimination cases and people always ask me if I have an...
Tough question, before early this year a union, it was generally considered could not waive its member’s rights to go to court to sue an...
Sometimes people will ask me once you’ve made a complaint what do you have a right to expect the employer to do and of course the...
It’s important to remember that your union has a specific and often limited jobs. The primary purpose of the union is to negotiate...
Restrictive covenants are promises that employers ask of employees that confine you, not during the course of your employment usually, but after...
Sometimes people ask me you know what is being a “whistle blower” mean, does it mean blowing the whistle on any...
Under our New Jersey Law Against Discrimination when you are a victim of workplace harassment or discrimination or retaliation you...
The foundation of my practice is employees who believe that they are the victim of adverse action in the workplace. And adverse reaction...
The law against discrimination in New Jersey prohibits discrimination for moral reasons, but it does it in a legal framework. It would...
Class actions and collective employment actions are a way for a number of people, each of whom has a claim that's perceived perhaps by the law as...
It depends on the nature of the bullying. Sometimes people will call and they'll say that they're being bullied just generically; their boss...
New Jersey as I’ve said before is one of the most progressive states in the country and we have this wonderful law the New Jersey Law Against...
Punitive damages are really very misunderstood. There’s a lot of press about them, there’s a lot of discussion about them...
Sometimes in the course of their employment with a private company an individual will come to information that the company is defrauding the state...
Gay and Lesbian people have the same rights as everyone else of course and that’s a timely topic now a days. But marriage rights aside...
In the state of New Jersey the law against discrimination doesn’t only apply in the work place it also applies in public accommodation....
More and more we find that transgendered people either male to female transsexuals or female to male transsexuals are the subject of employment...
You know our New Jersey Law Against Discrimination is so far reaching it protects not only employees in the work place it protects members of the...
The New Jersey Wage and Hour Law is similar to the federal Fair Labor Standards Act in that it provides rights and entitlements to employees to...
In our state the New Jersey LAD wouldn’t be as terrific a statute as it were if it allowed people to be discriminated against or...
When we talk about retaliation it’s not always the same kind of thing. It varies from situation...
The FLSA is the Fair Labor Standards Act. It's a federal statute that governs payment of wages and payment of overtime wages, among other...
When you make a complaint about harassment or retaliation or discrimination in the workplace your employer has an affirmative obligation to make...
When we go to court what we’re asking for are damages. And there are different kinds; there are equitable damages which basically mean...
Sometimes clients will ask me, “How can I expect a jury to give me pain and suffering damages if I haven’t treated with...
Here at the firm we consider ourselves a boutique litigation firm. We concentrate exclusively in employment civil rights and we consider...
When we talk about the law against discrimination we’re talking about a statute that I happen to have a great deal of respect for....
You know I get clients all the time, prospective clients, current clients asking me well how much proof do I need; it’s just my word against...
The nice part about these cases, these LAD cases, discrimination cases, harassment cases and whistle blower cases is that almost always you...
The prevailing wage act is a statute in New Jersey that is designed to address the amount of wages that employees earn when their performing...
Workers have many rights in the workplace. New Jersey is a very progressive jurisdiction when it comes to that. When we’re talking...
So you’ve been harassed you’ve complained about it, nothing’s happened, it’s continuing. You come to me, I let...
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