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...
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...
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...
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...
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 legislature in New Jersey in the 1940s passed a law called “The New Jersey Law Against Discrimination” and it’s really a...
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...
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...
The law against discrimination doesn’t only apply in the workplace it applies in the public sector in all phases of our lives. It...
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...
Sometimes clients will ask me, “How can I expect a jury to give me pain and suffering damages if I haven’t treated with...
More and more we find that transgendered people either male to female transsexuals or female to male transsexuals are the subject of employment...
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...
Sometimes in the course of their employment with a private company an individual will come to information that the company is defrauding the state...
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 you are a whistle blower and you can make use of our whistle blower statute. But sometimes if you are only taking action on...
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...
New Jersey has a law called CEPA, the Consciences Employee Protection Act which affords employees protection against illegal retaliation for...
When we go to court what we’re asking for are damages. And there are different kinds; there are equitable damages which basically mean...
The law against discrimination in New Jersey prohibits discrimination for moral reasons, but it does it in a legal framework. It would...
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....
Punitive damages are really very misunderstood. There’s a lot of press about them, there’s a lot of discussion about them...
Workers have many rights in the workplace. New Jersey is a very progressive jurisdiction when it comes to that. When we’re talking...
Racial or ethnic harassment is when you are exposed to conduct which is hostile, intimidating or abusive that is either severe or pervasive;...
“Whistle Blower” cases under New Jersey law are governed by what we call our Conscientious Employee Protection Act or CEPA. To be...
In the state of New Jersey the law against discrimination doesn’t only apply in the work place it also applies in public accommodation....
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...
When you make a complaint about harassment or retaliation or discrimination in the workplace your employer has an affirmative obligation to make...
A lot of clients call the office thinking the have a case of what they call harassment, but sexual harassment is a particular type if...
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...
One of the many categories that you are protected for against harassment and discrimination in our state, we talked about age and gender and...
Now under the New Jersey Law Against Discrimination which goes a little bit further than the Americans with Disabilities Act workers have the right...
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...
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,...
When you make a complaint about harassment or retaliation or discrimination in the workplace your employer has an affirmative obligation to make...
It’s important to remember that your union has a specific and often limited jobs. The primary purpose of the union is to negotiate...
Here at the firm we consider ourselves a boutique litigation firm. We concentrate exclusively in employment civil rights and we consider...
The foundation of my practice is employees who believe that they are the victim of adverse action in the workplace. And adverse reaction...
We call equitable damages equitable because it’s from a concept of fairness. If you’ve been discriminated against and you should...
Pain and suffering damages, we also call them legal damages are essentially a way of compensating you for your emotional distress. And by...
So you’ve been harassed you’ve complained about it, nothing’s happened, it’s continuing. You come to me, I let...
Sometimes people ask me you know what is being a “whistle blower” mean, does it mean blowing the whistle on any...
If one of the law suits that you happen to bring in your life is for a personal injury case let’s say for a car accident, the state...
Restrictive covenants are promises that employers ask of employees that confine you, not during the course of your employment usually, but after...
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...
Yes, a man can be sexually harassed. The New Jersey Law Against Discrimination does not limit its protection to women in terms of sexual...
Under our New Jersey Law Against Discrimination when you are a victim of workplace harassment or discrimination or retaliation you...
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