Category: Client Advisory
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01.28.2021
Cautious Employers Could Cost Their Company – Running Criminal Background Checks and Using them in the Hiring Process
As a cautious employer, let’s say you run a criminal background check on all of your applicants. Your latest candidate’s report comes up with an arrest record from just a few months ago for theft, but no conviction. What do you do? In a situation like this, it is best to call counsel because the […]
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10.23.2020
The CDC Expands the Definition of “Close Contact” with Substantial Ramifications for the Workplace
(Click here for printable PDF) On Wednesday, October 22, 2020, the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (“CDC”) expanded the definition of “close contact” for purposes of determining an exposure to COVID-19. This new definition will have an immediate and important impact for all employers. Specifically, this new definition changes how workplaces (and beyond) […]
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09.16.2020
Continued Employment Amounts to Consent for Arbitration Agreement
(Click here for printable PDF) On August 18, 2020, the New Jersey Supreme Court held that an employee’s continued employment was sufficient to manifest assent to the terms of an arbitration agreement, and reinstated the trial court’s order to compel arbitration over New Jersey Law Against Discrimination claims. However, the employer in that case, Pfizer, […]
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04.21.2020
New Jersey Makes Additional Changes to the Family Leave Act and the Temporary Disability/Family Leave Insurance Law to Expand Protection and Benefits to Employees out for COVID-19 Reasons
(Click here for printable PDF) On March 25th, Governor Murphy signed a bill expanding the scope of several New Jersey laws, including the Family Leave Act and Temporary Disability Insurance Law. These expansions were implemented to broaden eligibility requirements in order to enhance employee job protections and benefits by expanding the definition of a “serious […]
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04.07.2020
COVID-19 Legal Digest: Families First Coronavirus Response Act Required Notice Alert for Covered Employers
(Click here for printable PDF) As addressed by our earlier alert, effective April 1, 2020, the Families First Coronavirus Response Act (“FFCRA”) provides for emergency paid sick leave benefits and extended paid family leave benefits for certain employees impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic. FFCRA requires covered employers – in sum, private employers with fewer than 500 employees […]
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03.30.2020
COVID-19 Legal Digest: Tax Deadlines; Business Contracts in Light of the COVID-19 Crisis; New Jersey Passes Law Concerning Family Leave & Disability Benefits During Epidemic Related Emergencies; Governor Murphy Announces Mortgage Relief
(Click here for printable PDF) Tax Deadlines There are several important “April 15-related” tax deadlines of which everyone should be aware: The deadline for filing most individual refund claims for 2016 is April 15. That date was not extended to July 15. If you’re involved in a like kind exchange, note that the […]
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03.20.2020
New York Provides Sick Leave and Benefits for Certain Employees
(Click here for printable PDF) On March 18, 2020, Governor Cuomo signed legislation into law, effective immediately, that would provide sick leave and some benefits for employees in New York subject to mandatory or precautionary orders of quarantine or isolation due to COVID-19 issued by the State of New York, Department of Health, local board […]
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03.19.2020
Congress Passes “Families First Coronavirus Response Act” Requiring Most Small to Mid-Size Employers to Offer Paid Leave
(Click here for printable PDF) In the latest dizzying change caused by COVID-19 (coronavirus), President Trump, late on Wednesday, March 18th, signed the Families First Coronavirus Response Act (the “Act”), as the second major law to address the growing pandemic. This law imposes significant obligations on most small and mid-size employers to provide paid leave to employees, […]
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03.03.2020
Mandatory Anti-Harassment Training and Other New Amendments to the NJ Law Against Discrimination May Be Coming Soon
(Click here for printable PDF) New Jersey Governor Phil Murphy has issued “Proposals to Strengthen New Jersey’s Anti-Harassment Laws,” that if enacted into law, will significantly expand the New Jersey Law Against Discrimination (“NJLAD”). The proposed legislation is consistent with what is quickly becoming a countrywide push to expand laws aimed at preventing sexual […]
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02.21.2020
New Jersey Appellate Division Finds Employer’s Pregnancy Leave Policy Discriminatory and Warns Against Just Equal Treatment
(Click here for printable PDF) Last month, the New Jersey Appellate Division published its first opinion interpreting the New Jersey Pregnant Workers Fairness Act, a statute which amended the NJ Law Against Discrimination to include prohibitions against pregnancy discrimination. The Court in Delanoy v. Township of Ocean, et al., held that an employer’s policy designed to […]
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