Listen to this Blog By Joseph Wapelhorst It’s no secret that the restaurant industry has perhaps been hit hardest by the COVID pandemic. These businesses are closing, employees are being let go while those who remain work longer hours. The challenges posed by the...
Employment Law
Can I Make My Workers Get The COVID-19 Vaccine?
Listen to this Blog By Zhen Liu New Jersey is rolling out COVID-19 vaccines step-by-step to serve all adults who live, work, or are being educated here. The State's goal is to vaccinate 70 percent of the adult population – or 4.7 million adults – within six months....
Catholic School Teacher Fired For Being Pregnant and Unmarried Wins Her Case
Listen to this Blog By Aleksandra Syniec, Staff Writer In 2014, a teacher at the St. Theresa School in Kenilworth, Victoria Crisitello, told her principal that she was pregnant. Only days later, the principal consulted with other clerical and School personnel and...
What qualifies as wrongful termination in New Jersey?
The current economic crisis has caused millions of Americans to lose their jobs. You may be among these persons, yet the reason for your termination may not make sense. Even during these times, your employer may have been thriving. Furthermore, you may have...
Employees Can Be Eligible For Unemployment When An Employer Changes the Conditions of Employment
New Jersey's Unemployment Compensation Law provides financial assistance to eligible workers suffering the distress and dislocation caused by unemployment. This law, also known as the Workers Compensation Act, was created to provide some income for the worker earning...
New Jersey Commits to Higher Minimum Wage
This past January, New Jersey joined California, New York, and Massachusetts by raising the minimum wage to $15.00. Governor Phil Murphy and legislative leaders signed a deal to increase minimum wage in the state from its current $8.85 to $15.00 to reflect the rising...
New Jersey’s New Equal Pay Act – This is Big!
It has been 6 months since New Jersey's Diane B. Allen Equal Pay Act (the "Act") took effect. On March 27, 2018, the New Jersey legislature passed the Act, amending the New Jersey Law Against Discrimination ("LAD"). The LAD has long been New Jersey's law for promotion...
Arbitration Agreements Cannot Limit Punitive Damages
Many times, when a former employee files a lawsuit against an employer, a court will uphold an arbitration agreement between them. An arbitration agreement is a contract that employers may have their employees sign that requires that the employee agrees to forgo...
New Jersey Employment Contracts
"Surgery. Operations are now banned. As long as you are an employee here, you need all your organs. You should not consider removing anything. We hired you intact. To have something removed is a breach of employment."Although still rare in the overall workplace,...
Doing it by the Book – Employee Handbooks in New Jersey
Like most decisions in running a business design, there's no "one size fits all" or "quick fix" when it comes to writing employee handbooks. While employee handbooks are not a requirement for all business, they can be an important preventative measure against legal...