In its December 2013 update, the New Jersey Department of Labor (“DOL”) announced that it will publish the notice of adoption of the so-called “gender equity notice” in the New Jersey Register’s January 6, 2014 issue. The gender equity notice was originally proposed on January 7 ...
On November 18, 2013, Bill No. S-3064, which would permit unpaid interns to seek relief from purported harassment, discrimination and retaliation under the Law Against Discrimination, the Conscientious Employee Protection Act, and the Worker Freedom From Employer Intimidation Act, was ...
On November 7, 2013, the Senate Labor Committee unanimously endorsed Bill No. S-2995, with amendments. This bill would add a new protected category - pregnancy - to the New Jersey Law Against Discrimination. The term “pregnancy” would encompass not only the actual pregnancy, but ...
On September 30, 2013, Bill No. S-2995, which would add a new protected category - pregnancy - to the New Jersey Law Against Discrimination, was introduced to the New Jersey Senate by Senator Loretta Weinberg (Bergen). Under the proposed amendments, it would be unlawful for an employer to ...
On June 24, 2013, the Supreme Court also granted cert to NLRB v. Noel Canning (No. 12-1281), a case which is a major test of the Constitution’s grant of power to the President to name appointees temporarily to government posts when the Senate is in recess.
The case is coming up from the D.C ...
On June 24, 2013, the Supreme Court of the United States issued its decision in Vance v. Ball State University. The Court had decided to hear the case in order to clarify the “supervisor” liability rule that it had established in 1998 in Faragher v. City of Boca Raton and Burlington ...
On June 11, 2013, the viability of unpaid internship programs at for-profit corporations was dealt a resounding blow when the Honorable William H. Pauley III, U.S.D.J. of the Southern District of New York granted plaintiffs-former unpaid interns summary judgment on the issue of whether ...
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Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 generally prohibits employment discrimination based on employee’s race, color, religion, sex and national origin. Employees who bring lawsuits claiming employment discrimination because of their status as a member of one of these protected ...
EMPLOYER ALERT: NEW FORM I-9
On March 8, 2013, the Department of Homeland Security issued a new version of the Form I-9, Employment Eligibility Verification (“Form”). The current version of the Form expired last August.
While the new Form may be used immediately, the USCIS has granted ...