July 12, 2021
By: Francine Foner, Esq. and Ty Hyderally, Esq. As discussed in a prior blog, in 2015 the New Jersey Supreme Court held that the test for […]
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July 9, 2021
By: Ty Hyderally, Esq., Jennifer Vorih, Esq., and Elana Burk On June 22, 2021, Montclair’s Township Council passed legislation instituting new protections for transgender and nonbinary […]
July 7, 2021
By: Jennifer Weitz, Esq., and Ty Hyderally, Esq. How many instances of offensive speech are needed to claim a hostile workplace environment under the LAD? If […]
June 25, 2021
By: Jennifer Vorih, Esq., and Ty Hyderally, Esq. On June 10, 2021, the Occupational Health and Safety Administration (OSHA) issued its first Emergency Temporary Standard in […]
June 24, 2021
By: Francine Foner, Esq., Renee Jiang and Ty Hyderally, Esq. New Jersey employees facing age discrimination may soon be on more equal footing with employees facing […]
June 18, 2021
By Francine Foner, Esq. and Ty Hyderally, Esq. The New Jersey Supreme Court championed the rights of disabled employees in a case we discussed in an […]
June 16, 2021
By: Jennifer Vorih, Esq., and Ty Hyderally, Esq. New Jersey Governor Phil Murphy signed the Healthy Terminals Act on April 29, 2021. The Act expands access […]
June 11, 2021
By: Renee Jiang, Francine Foner, Esq., and Ty Hyderally, Esq. On May 5, 2021, Governor Andrew Cuomo signed into law the New York Health and Essential […]
June 8, 2021
By: Francine Foner, Esq., and Ty Hyderally, Esq. If in response to an employee’s rejection of her supervisor’s sexual advances, the supervisor tells the employee to […]
June 4, 2021
By: Jennifer Vorih, Esq., and Ty Hyderally, Esq. On May 24, 2021, New Jersey Governor Phil Murphy will be dropping several mandates related to the COVID-19 […]
May 28, 2021
By: Francine Foner, Esq., and Ty Hyderally, Esq. Does your employer need to sign an arbitration agreement requiring that employment disputes be arbitrated, rather than decided […]
May 24, 2021
By: Jennifer Vorih, Esq., and Ty Hyderally, Esq. New Jerseyans may have heard of a private school in Florida which recently announced a policy against teachers […]
May 17, 2021
By: Nina Lucibello, Chantal N. Guerriero, Esq. and Ty Hyderally, Esq. In February 2021, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (“EEOC”) filed suit against Saint Clare’s […]
May 13, 2021
By: Francine Foner, Esq., and Ty Hyderally, Esq. On May 5, 2021, the Department of Labor (DOL) announced it was overturning a rule established during the […]
May 12, 2021
By: Nina Lucibello, Chantal N. Guerriero, Esq. and Ty Hyderally, Esq. Since the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, hate crimes against Asian Americans have drastically risen. […]
April 29, 2021
By: Francine Foner, Esq. and Ty Hyderally, Esq. Federal and state wage laws are designed to ensure that employees who are covered by the wage laws […]
April 28, 2021
By: Jennifer Vorih, Esq., and Ty Hyderally, Esq. The New Jersey Supreme Court recently affirmed that an employer must pay for medical marijuana prescribed for its […]
April 26, 2021
By: Nina Lucibello, Chantal N. Guerriero, Esq. and Ty Hyderally, Esq. The New Jersey Legislature is currently considering a proposal by Senate Majority Leader Loretta Weinberg, […]
April 22, 2021
Under existing New York law, even if an employee is successful in obtaining a judgment against an employer for unpaid wages, he or she may still […]
April 19, 2021
By: Nina Lucibello, Chantal N. Guerriero, Esq. and Ty Hyderally, Esq. In March 2021, President Biden signed the American Rescue Plan Act (“ARPA”) into law, a […]
April 15, 2021
By: Renee Jiang, Francine Foner, Esq., and Ty Hyderally, Esq. The New Jersey Cannabis Regulatory, Enforcement Assistance, and Marketplace Modernization Act (“CREAMMA” or the “Act”), signed […]
April 14, 2021
By: Chantal N. Guerriero, Esq. and Ty Hyderally, Esq. On March 25, 2021, the U.S. District Court for the District of New Jersey issued a ruling […]
April 13, 2021
By: Jennifer Vorih, Esq., and Ty Hyderally, Esq. 2020 was a very tumultuous year, and 2021 started off with a violent insurrection. Many employers terminated employees […]
April 12, 2021
By Francine Foner, Esq., and Ty Hyderally, Esq. The recently enacted American Rescue Plan Act of 2021, signed by President Biden on March 11, 2021, does […]
April 7, 2021
By: Jennifer Vorih, Esq., and Ty Hyderally, Esq. Montclair Public Schools began remote learning over a year ago. Remote learning and in-person instruction during the pandemic […]
March 30, 2021
By Renee Jiang, Francine Foner, Esq., and Ty Hyderally, Esq. The economic downturn caused by the COVID-19 pandemic has impacted women disproportionately. More than 12 million […]
March 29, 2021
By: Jennifer Vorih, Esq., and Ty Hyderally, Esq. As discussed in an earlier blog (November 23, 2020), the New Jersey Supreme Court recently heard a case […]
March 15, 2021
By: Chantal N. Guerriero, Esq. and Ty Hyderally, Esq. March is Women’s History Month, and this year, more than ever, it is important to recognize the […]
March 12, 2021
By: Chantal N. Guerriero, Esq. and Ty Hyderally, Esq. The Pregnant Workers Fairness Act (“PWFA”) was first introduced eight years ago, in 2012, and has since […]
March 8, 2021
By: Jennifer Vorih, Esq., and Ty Hyderally, Esq. The New Jersey Appellate Division recently clarified that back-pay which is due to tenured teachers is not offset […]
March 5, 2021
By Renee Jiang, Francine Foner, Esq., and Ty Hyderally, Esq. On February 9, 2021, New Jersey lawmakers introduced a marriage equality bill seeking to codify same-sex […]
February 25, 2021
By: Chantal N. Guerriero, Esq. and Ty Hyderally, Esq. Since the long-awaited COVID-19 vaccine has arrived, many people have begun to question whether their employers are […]
February 23, 2021
By Francine Foner, Esq., and Ty Hyderally, Esq. The Me-Too movement has brought to the forefront the problem with confidentiality provisions in settlement agreements which silence […]
February 17, 2021
By: Jennifer Vorih, Esq., and Ty Hyderally, Esq. The New Jersey Wage and Hour Law (“NJWHL”) requires employers to pay employees 1.5 times their regular hourly […]
February 10, 2021
By: Chantal N. Guerriero, Esq. and Ty Hyderally, Esq. In August 2020, Francoise Brougher released a shocking blog post titled, “The Pinterest Paradox: Cupcakes and Toxicity” […]
February 3, 2021
By Francine Foner, Esq., and Ty Hyderally, Esq. What is “implicit bias”? In a bill proposed in March 2020 to address implicit bias in prenatal care, […]
January 29, 2021
By: Jennifer Vorih, Esq. and Ty Hyderally, Esq. For Montclair teachers, parents, students, and school staff, it’s been a long haul since March 16, 2020, when […]
January 27, 2021
By Francine Foner, Esq., and Ty Hyderally, Esq. With the election of Joe Biden, and the Democrats having regained control of the Senate, a number of […]
January 26, 2021
By: Chantal N. Guerriero, Esq. and Ty Hyderally, Esq. Although the induction of the Biden administration was just last week, the new administration has swiftly set […]
January 20, 2021
By: Chantal N. Guerriero, Esq. and Ty Hyderally, Esq. It’s no secret that employees in the health care industry have been hit hard over the past […]