Many of our clients are surprised to learn that they have protectable intellectual property within their business or practice. Some are obvious: formulas, manufacturing and testing methods, product names, authored literature, customer lists. Others,... Read More
The New Jersey Division on Civil Rights (DCR) amended its regulations governing the display of certain employment-related posters in the workplace relating to the New Jersey Law Against Discrimination (NJLAD), New Jersey Family Leave Act (NJFLA),... Read More
The New Jersey Appellate Division affirmed an employer’s decision to terminate an employee over her comments on a Facebook post. In a recent matter, an employee of a New Jersey health system was terminated after her employer discovered Facebook... Read More
A Passaic County judge has reconsidered and reversed his own decision to send an employment case to arbitration, instead finding that a mandatory arbitration provision contained in the employee handbook could not be enforced because the handbook... Read More
New Jersey employers continue to remain without meaningful guidance on the issue of how they may legally maintain a drug-free workplace. On February 22, 2021, the New Jersey Cannabis Regulatory, Enforcement Assistance, and Marketplace Modernization... Read More
New Jersey’s Acting Attorney General, Andrew J. Bruck, recently announced the largest enforcement action against fifteen companies across several industries for their unlawful hiring practices in violation of New Jersey’s Opportunity to Compete... Read More
New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio announced yesterday, December 6, 2021, that the city will require COVID-19 vaccinations for all employees in the city’s private sector effective December 27, 2021. The details of the requirement have not been... Read More
In what may be the first of several similar lawsuits over mandatory employee vaccination policies, plaintiff Kenya Lawton claims that his former employer, a New Jersey hospital, terminated his employment as a painter after he refused to take an... Read More
Over the past several months, many clients have reached out to us with questions like, can an employer require their employees to take a COVID vaccine as a condition of employment? According to the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, as... Read More
A proposed piece of legislation, entitled “Employee Security Act” (HB 3530 and SB 2332) is working its way though Illinois’ congress. If passed, it would make it only the second state in the country to prohibit at-will employment outright—a... Read More
