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April 4, 2012. Public Positions and New Jersey Employment Law. Public employees in the State of New Jersey are at risk of losing their job if they commit a crime in the State of New Jersey. New Jersey Employment Lawyer Blog reports.
April 3, 2012. Recent article on New Jersey Employment Law and Social Media. Employers are requesting employees' Facebook passwords. Is it legal?
March 22, 2012. New Jersey Employment Lawyer blog reaches Number 1 ranking on google search for New Jersey employment lawyers. The blog for New Jersey Employment Lawyer was launched several years ago and brings updates on recent trends in New Jersey employment law.
March 5, 2012. Sexual Harassment website compiles extensive list of employment lawyers, including New Jersey Employment Lawyers.
March 2, 2012. New Jersey Employment Lawyers warn employers of pitfalls concerning social media and the workplace.
October 20, 2011. Employment lawyers in New Jersey need to take note of this case. Abrasive and impolite comments by a manager or co-workers may make for an unpleasant workplace, but if it's directed toward everyone, it's not actionable under the state Law Against Discrimination, an appeals court says. On Wednesday, the Appellate Division affirmed a trial judge's ruling that there was no gender discrimination at play in the vulgar and dismissive language at an auto dealership where the plaintiff was the sole female employee. "Personality conflicts, albeit severe, do not equate to hostile work environment claims simply because the conflict is between a male and a female employee," the two-judge panel said in Miceli v. Lakeland Automotive Corp., A-3207-19.
June 26, 2007. Bergen County Record publishes Op Ed by David A. Krenkel on impact of Wal-Mart discrimination ruling by Supreme Court.
December 20, 2010. New Jersey emplyoment lawyers can now start using Lexology, a new database that compiles NJ employment law articles.
December 7, 2010. New Jersey Employment Lawyer Reporter. Ruling in favor of a NJ employment lawyer that filed a claim on behalf of the plaintiff, the New Jersey Supreme Court rules that confidential employment records may be used in discrimination/retaliation lawsuit filed under the New Jersey Law Against Discrimination. November 24, 2010. New Jersey Employment Lawyer Reporter. Alexander v. Seton Hall University, New Jersey Supreme Court. The payment of unequal wages on the discriminatory basis of age or sex is set forth in the Law Against Discrimination. Each payment of such discriminatory wages constitutes an actionable wrong that is remediable under the LAD. The two-year statute of limitations applies to such violations by cutting off the untimely portion of such claims. Therefore, the law limits the damages recoverable for past discriminatory compensation. The court opined that plaintiffs' complaint was timely in respect of the allegedly discriminatory wages they received during the two years immediately prior to the filing of their complaint. NJ Employment Lawyer Reporter.
November 22, 2010. New Jersey employment lawyer offers strong criticism of NJ Governor Christie’s tool kit. NJ Star Ledger tries to make sense of the tool kit and its effect on local municipalities. Employment lawyers in New Jersey, along with the NJ State Legislature will need to sort out New Jersey civil service and arbitration issues for public servants.
Nov 14, 2010. Essex County settles lawsuit with employee that claims the County refused to allow her to wear a religiously mandated headscarf. The employee claims that she was suspended and then dismissed over the employment dispute. The New Jersey employment lawyer stated on behalf of the Department of Justice, Civil Rights Division that an "individual should not have to choose between keeping a job and practicing their faith when accommodations can be reasonably made."
Nov 8 2010.
A former NJ Transit train conductor that was terminated after publicly burning pages from the Quran on the 9th anniversary of the Sept. 11 tragedy has filed a lawsuit against his former employer.The former employee is seeking reinstatement and monetary damages. New Jersey employment lawyers on both sides will certainly find themselves in a contraversial subject litigating this case.
June 5, 2009 - Krenkel & Krenkel, LLC, and co-counsel, The Gardner Law Firm, Lankenau & Miller, LLP and Margolis Edelstein, settled a class action lawsuit for $475,000.00 against Foxtons, Inc., a discount real estate brokerage firm located in West Long Branch, New Jersey. The complaint was filed in the United States Bankruptcy Court and alleged that Foxtons terminated 350 employees without sufficient warning. The lawsuit alleged that Foxtons violated the Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification Act, 29 U.S.C. 2101, et seq.
