A problem that’s becoming more common for New Jersey employees is that their workday doesn’t necessarily end when they leave the workplace. A lot of them are venting frustrations on their Facebook posts, Twitter, other social media sites. Sometimes that gets back to the employer and that can have devastating consequences.  If you make a […]

There’s no way to stop people from making claims, but there are ways to defend yourself and it’s through meticulous timekeeping. It is through training your supervisors not to cut any corners. If somebody has actually worked more than eight hours in a day or more than forty hours in a week, document it. If […]

We get a lot of questions about accessing company personnel files, and it’s always from employees who think there’s something negative in there or something that shouldn’t be in there at all. The problem is that your personnel file doesn’t belong to you; that’s the property of the company. Companies can set policies to determine […]

We get a lot of calls from people in New Jersey who are complaining that the boss is treating them differently from other employees. On its face, there’s nothing wrong with that. An employer is entitled to treat people differently based on their performance, based on their value to the company, based on whether he […]

A concern that arises frequently among New Jersey employers involves the Family Medical Leave Act. This concern is whether the accrued vacation and sick days of an employee extends the Family Leave Act time available to them. The answer is, no. Under the Act, it is entirely appropriate for you to make an employee use […]

Age discrimination is a fact of life as the Baby Boom generation ages and starts getting pushed out of the workforce when they’re not leaving voluntarily. Now, age discrimination has two different flavors. There is the federal Age Discrimination and Employment Act which protects workers who are 40 years of age and older from an […]

Under New Jersey law, there’s no requirement for a company to hand an employee a severance package when he’s been terminated. The question rises, why would a company do so? There’s a couple reasons why a company might. The first is they might have a policy company-wide to provide severance based on a formula of […]

With the increase in use of smartphones and their ability to record conversations and even take video, a lot of employers are concerned that their employees are going around recording conversations unauthorized, and wonder what they can do about it. It’s pretty easy. An employer can control the workplace, and stop employees from making unauthorized […]

There’s no law that requires you to give vacation, sick, personal, or any other time off to your employees. That’s entirely a question of management prerogative. You have to bear in mind, though, that you’re not going to attract to many quality people if you don’t provide some benefits along those lines.

A lot of employees will contact us after getting a performance review that they considered to be very unfair. Often times, the performance review will stop them from getting a promotion or a raise. There’s real money at stake in a lot of these cases. They ask us what we can do about that. Ordinarily, […]