NJ Employment Law

Happy New Year! When you get back to your desk on Monday, please get ready to make your annual distribution of the CEPA and Gender Equity notices Conscientious Employee Protection Act (CEPA) If you have 10 or more employees and at least one of them works in the Garden State, you must […]

The “faithless servant doctrine” may sound old-fashioned, but it can be a powerful tool for employers that are the victims of disloyal employees. This 19th century remedy allows companies to get back the salary and other compensation paid to the bad apple. Why? The courts have reasoned that the wrongdoer […]

Jon Hyman, Esq., of the always-excellent Ohio Employer’s Law Blog, has put out a handy-dandy cheat sheet on employment recordkeeping.   He wrote it for Ohio, which has a 6-year statute of limitations for employment discrimination claims (as opposed to NJ’s 2 years)  I have adapted it here for Garden State […]

      Here, updated for 2015, is the list of NJ and federal employment law poster requirements.  I’ve added distribution and acknowledgement requirements, as well. All of the posters are available for free from the State and the Feds, so why pay a poster company big $$$ for them?  […]

On October 1, 2013, the New Jersey Security and Financial Empowerment Act, commonly known as the “NJ SAFE Act,” went into force.  The new law allows an eligible employee to take 20 days of unpaid leave during a 12-month period in the event the employee or the employee’s child, parent, spouse, domestic […]