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, […]

Every now and then, we’ll get a call from a woman who’s been subjected to sexual harassment at her company, either by coworkers, sometimes by supervisors, who’s made the complaints through the company process, but the company’s still ignoring it. She wonders what she can do. If she’s done the right thing by going through […]

We get a lot of questions from New Jersey employees about sexual comments in the workplace that they’re taking to be harassment. There’s two different types of verbal comments that can constitute harassment. Some of them are comments directed to you, and others are comments directed at a person of the same protected class, such […]

 One of the most powerful laws we have in New Jersey to protect employees is the Conscientious Employee Protection Act. Also known as the Whistleblower Act. It’s designed to protect employees who have spoken out against unlawful practices in the workplace, and it’s designed to stop retaliation against them. The key here is that the […]