New Anti-Age Update to NJ Law Against Discrimination
On October 5, 2021, New Jersey Governor Phil Murphy signed a new update to the NJ Law Against Discrimination prohibiting employers from discriminating against workers who are 70 years old...
Age Discrimination in the Workplace
Age discrimination in the workplace is illegal. Age discrimination includes treating an employee unfavorably because of his or her age. It is unlawful for an employer to discriminate against any...
Recent Amendments to the New Jersey Law Against Discrimination
Employers accused of employment discrimination, sexual harassment, or retaliation often times offer the claimant a settlement. The settlement is generally an attempt to make the claim disappear or “go...
New Jersey Law Against Discrimination May Extend to Specific Out of State Employees
The New Jersey Law Against Discrimination (NJLAD) may extend to particular groups of out of state employees, specifically telecommuters. NJLAD May Apply to Out-of-State Telecommuters The New Jersey Superior Court...
Disney Cruise Worker Claiming Sexual Harassment
While most cases of sexual harassment involve men harassing women, the fact is that anyone can become a sexual harassment victim. A middle-aged male Disney Cruise Line employee recently filed...
Supreme Court Rule on Age Discrimination
The Age Discrimination Employment Act of 1967 (ADEA) protects anyone over 40 years old from discrimination due to age in the workplace. While the act originally was written for private...
Arbitration Agreements and Employee Rights
In early October, a New Jersey state appeals court reopened a dispute against a large cybersecurity company. The plaintiff alleged that after objecting to the sexual harassment and gender discrimination...
IBM Age Discrimination
Three former employees have filed an age discrimination lawsuit against the tech giant IBM. The women claim that they were fired due to the company’s desire to build a younger...
New Jersey Whistleblower Gets New Trial
The Superior Court of New Jersey Appellate Division granted a new trial to a former Toyota Universe, Inc. employee that filed a whistleblower lawsuit against the corporation, claiming she was...
NJ Law Protects Telecommuters
New Jersey has some of the strictest protections against employment discrimination and a recent case shows these protections can be extended to workers who do their work remotely from another...
IBM Age Discrimination Allegations
A new report from ProPublica and Mother Jones alleges that over the past five years, IBM laid off thousands of its workers older than age 40 in the United States,...
