The terms "biological parent" and "custodial parent" are common in Family Law that don't require a lawyer to explain. But another equally important one is "psychological parent."A New Jersey Appeals Court recently found that the rights of a psychological parent, no...
Year: 2011
New York Citys Human Rights Law Continues to Expand Protections to Employees Faced with Discrimination and Retaliation
New York City continues to be a "stronghold" for employees faced with discrimination, especially where federal discrimination and retaliation laws fall short. The recent case of Albunio v. City of New York, provides a potent example of New York's recent record of...
Safety First ? Or Last
The Los Angeles Dodgers have been in the news recently, for more than baseball fans. There is the front page spectacle of the owner's divorce and the drama of whether he will be forced to sell the team because of its terrible financial condition. But nothing has been...
Unemployment Law
On June 1, 2011, a new law in New Jersey will take effect forbidding business from discriminating against job applicants who are unemployed. Under this law, New Jersey employers may not advertise job openings in New Jersey that contain one or more of the following...
Your Blackberry – The Final Frontier in Wage and Hour Litigation?
Personal Digital Assistants (PDA's), like a Blackberry or IPhone, have become commonplace tools in our work and personal lives. And that's a problem. Many employers expect their employees to be accessible at all times of day and the old time card method of starting...
STS Tire Stores Unfriendly to those Most Reliant on Wheels – The Paraplegic
STS Tire and Auto Centers puts people on new wheels all over the northeast with about 60 locations in New Jersey, 21 in Pennsylvania and 26 in New York. However, according to paraplegic Jose Clemente, STS is unfriendly to the wheels he is most reliant on-those on his...
Sex Discrimination Against the Transgendered The New Frontier
Sex discrimination in the workplace usually brings to mind images of female subordinates harassed by male superiors. But the traditional notion of sex discrimination has been radically changed in recent years by discrimination and harassment of the transgendered....
Employee Theft May Pay – The New Jersey Supreme Court OK’s Use of Confidential Information in a Discrimination Suit
A NJ Supreme Court decision from last December is still a source of dispute in the employment law community. That's because the case dealt with the question of whether it's OK to steal confidential documents from an employer. Shockingly, the majority of the New Jersey...
A Tale as Old as Time: Age Discrimination in the Workplace
In 2002, M. Foster Werner Jr. was hired by AT&T to improve the reputation, performance and profitability of one of its subsidiary's real estate departments. Werner testified in a lawsuit against the subsidiary that as director of the real estate department, he was...