New Jersey Employment Law Blog
This blawg links to and comments on news reports and court decisions related to employment law.
Author: Franklyn C. Steinberg III represents small and medium-size businesses in matters of employment law and business litigation. An enthusiastic pilot, he also practices aviation law.
Blawg Related Categories: Benefits/ERISA • Labor & Employment • Solos/Small Firms
Recent Posts from New Jersey Employment Law Blog
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A Lot of Kung Pao Chicken Indeed
Michael Fox at Jottings By an Employer's Lawyer reminds us that wage and hour litigation is an increasing problem for business. The latest involves a $2 million (yes, "million") order to pay back wages and…
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Big Age Discrimination Award
Law.com has this report of a $6.2 million verdict in favor of two Pennsylvania scientists formerly employed by PQ Corp. Both had been terminated in a downsizing. The jury found that PQ discriminated against them…
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Supreme Court Decision Will Affect Location of Many Business Lawsuits
Hertz v. Friend, when decided by the US Supreme Court, will decide one of those issues --- where is a corporation's principal place of business for jurisdictional purposes? --- that seems almost silly from a…
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Dumb Excuses for Missing Work - Vol. 1
"Oh what tangled webs we weave, When first we practice to deceive." So Sir Walter Scott told us in Marmion. (Yes, I too thought it was from Shakespeare, but a little research quickly disabused me…
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Revised Posting Requirment - November 21 Deadline
A revised "Equal Employment Opportunity Is the Law" poster must be used by businesses with 15 or more employees, effective November 21. You can print the poster from the EEOC website. The revisions add information…
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Defecting Employees Destroy Successful New Business
Here's what happened to Charter Oak, a successful new mortgage business that didn't protect itself from its own employees. Ten of them left as a group for a larger competitor, allegedly stole files and pending…
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Some Good Thoughts from California on Social Security Mis-Match Letters
Here's a good post from the left coast, specifically the California Labor & Employment Law Blog, on how employers should respond to Social Security mis-match letters. There have been some changes in the law, and…
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Wal-Mart Fires Security Guard for Chasing Shoplifter
They say that no good deed goes unpunished, and so it seems in this case. A Wal-Mart guard saw a man in the act of stealing golf balls. He chased the suspect, who pulled a…
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Colorado's Minimum Wage Drops!
Here's something that you don't see every day. In fact, not since 1938, when the federal minimum wage was established . . . . anywhere. It won't happen in NJ, since our minimum wage is…
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Age Discrimination on a Monday Morning - Part 2
A Congressional bill to overturn the Supreme Court's decision in Gross v. FBL is now available in the form of a proposed "Protecting Older Workers Against Discrimination Act." (POWADA? We might need a better acronym…