Employers in New Jersey must review their current policies and practices to ensure compliance with a new statutory prohibition on the inclusion of non-disclosure provisions in employment contracts or settlements involving discrimination, harassment, or retaliation claims. The new law, signed by New Jersey governor, Phil Murphy, on March 18, 2019,…
Sara Tirschwell, an investor who had been hired by TCW in 2016 to raise and run a new distressed debt fund for the giant asset-management firm, suddenly found herself without a job on December 14, 2017. She had been called into a meeting with the firm’s chief compliance officer and…
Where an insurance agent’s contract with Allstate was terminated for failure to meet performance goals, and the insurance company subsequently denied the agent’s request to transfer the book of business to the agent’s husband, instead selling to the wife of the agent’s former supervisor, the trial court erred in dismissing…
Effective January 1, 2019, the Illinois Wage Payment and Collection Act (IWPCA), 820 ILCS 115/1 et seq., requires employers to reimburse employees for all “necessary expenditures” or losses that an employee incurs in the scope of their employment. Prior to the amendment, Illinois law generally did not require employers to…
The #metoo, can be viewed as a disease in business practice. In its wake, thousands of women have come forward to raise complaints of sexual harassment. Workplace harassment does not simply remain in the realm of celebrity, its reach is much greater. People are getting worked up about it and…
With the increase in sensitivities to gender and race discrimination and the resulting lawsuits, more corporations are seeking ways in which to help cater for the divisions in gender and background of employees. Sexual harassment suits have gone up in the light of the #metoo and many other ethnic-related and…
Sick leave is the leave of absence granted in cases of illness. Current changes are being made in this realm of the paid absence of duty and coming fast. Federal requirements have not been in place for paid sick leave. The Family and Medical Leave Act (FMLA) does not require…
Inquiries into the background history of an employee have the potential to affect the salary set for an employee in the future. Questions such as, “how much did you make in your previous job?” have the potential to legally tie up employees and not in a good way. Though the…
Inquiries into the background history of an employee have the potential to affect the salary set for an employee in the future. Questions such as, “how much did you make in your previous job?” have the potential to legally tie up employees and not in a good way. Though the…
President Barack Obama during his tenure had enacted protections by law to find that“sexual orientation is inherently a ‘sex-based consideration.’” The current President Trump was determined to change that and the issue was brought up before the courts in a landmark civil rights case which bars employers from discriminating against…