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Monday, October 14, 2024

NJ Wage Payment Attorney, My Employer Refuses to Pay Me Overtime


The practice of employers to outright refuse to pay workers for any hours they worked over 40 a week, or not paying time and a half rate for overtime hours, has reached staggering proportions. The majority of NJ worker have jobs entitling them to overtime wages. Employers may arrogantly outright refuse to pay at the overtime wage rate or sometimes refuse to pay for any of the hours worked over 40 a week. The more savvy of the unscrupulous employers, rather than outright refuse, devise devious schemes labeling job descriptions and assigning sham employee titles in such a way to be circumvent having to pay overtime. Both practices are illegal.


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Monday, October 7, 2024

NJ Employment Disability Attorney, Disabled Employees Not Accommodated and Illegally Terminated


If you asked your employer for a reasonable accommodation that would allow you to keep working and your employer denied you the accommodation, it is possible your employer is violating the law. If your employer is discriminating against you because you are disabled, you should contact this office today for a free consultation.

What You Need to Submit to Your Employer

If you are disabled and would be able to do the essential functions of your job with a reasonable accommodation, you should put such request in writing, stating the nature of your disability and why you need this accommodation, and additionally accompany your letter with another letter from your doctor stating the nature of your disability, and requesting what accommodation is needed to allow you to keep working at your job.

This letter should be served on your supervisor and the head of HR, unless your employee handbook directs you to submit this request to a different person, in which case, follow the company rules. Maintain proof that you served these requests for an accommodation, example - as by printing out the email transmission.


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Monday, September 30, 2024

NJ Age Discrimination Attorney, I Think I Was Fired Because of My Age, How Can I Prove It?


Many older workers, some who are  ong-term employees,  feel in a state of shock when they are let go by their employer for no apparent reason. Their first reaction is commonly  a state of disbelief that a  ge could be the reason for the termination or that they experienced illegal discrimination. I have represented public and private older employees who were pushed out of jobs because of their age and was successful in recovering financial compensation for their emotional pain and suffering and moneys for lost wages, both for past lost wages and projected future lost wages. If you think you are being pushed out of your job because of your age, you should contact this office immediately for a free consultation.

A POLITE AND CORDIAL WORK ENVIRONMENT DOES NOT ALWAYS MEAN AGEISM DOES NOT EXIST IN THE EMPLOYER’S HIRING AND FIRING DECISIONS.

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Monday, September 16, 2024

NJ Employment Attorney, Department of Labor Agencies That Could Be Affected by Supreme Court Ruling


Numerous administrative agencies of the U.S. Department of Labor could be affected by the ruling of US Supreme Court in Loper Bright Enters. v. Raimondo, 219 L.


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Monday, September 9, 2024

NJ Race Discrimination Attorney: My Employer Discriminates Against Black Workers, Should We File Class Action?


Employees who experience discrimination because they are in a protected class, such as race, sex, age etc., often see other similarly situated employees in the same class also being discriminated against by their employer. This may lead them to wonder if they want to file a lawsuit with their co-workers who are similarly harmed by the discrimination, and if so, if it should be a class action lawsuit.

If you are experiencing despicable discrimination because you are a member of a protected class, such as race, age, sex, etc., you should contact this office immediately for a free consultation.


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Sunday, August 25, 2024

New Jersey Employment Lawyer, How US Supreme Court May Undermine Protections for Employees


Persons have asked for an interpretation of why civil rights advocates think a recent US Supreme decision could negatively affect employee rights and other American civil liberties. This article will provide a delineation of the legal process involved and expand the previous article.

Don’t sit on your rights. If you think your employer is committing illegal acts against you, you should contact this office immediately for a free consultation. I have successfully represented workers whose employers were violating their rights and was successful in recovering financial compensation for their emotional pain and suffering and moneys for lost wages, both for past lost wages and projected future lost wages.


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Monday, August 19, 2024

NJ Employment Law Attorney, Can Employer Fire Me Because of Safety Concerns?


Unverified and subjective concerns that an employee’s disability raises a safety issue cannot be a basis for termination. The New Jersey Law Against Discrimination as well as Federal law prohibits public and private employers from discharging qualified workers based on actual or perceived disabilities which they assume poses a harm to the disabled employee or to other workers or clients.

If the Employee’s Disability Impairs Their Ability to Work

If an employee has a disability that impairs their ability to work safely if they do not have an accommodation to assist them, then the employee should ask the employer in writing to provide such an accommodation. The written request from the employee should be accompanied by a doctor’s note that states the disability, what is required for a reasonable accommodation, why it is needed, and requesting a specific accommodation to allow the employee to keep working.

The employee should keep a copy of the request and doctors note for oneself and serve it on the Head of HR or whomever the employee directs such communication to be made.


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Monday, August 12, 2024

NJ Employment Discrimination Lawyer, Harassed in the Workplace, BE HEARD in the Workplace Act of 2024


The BE HEARD in the Workplace Act builds on and strengthens existing civil rights laws by expanding protections for workers, while safeguarding existing anti-discrimination laws. It clarifies that the Civil Rights Act protects against discrimination based on sexual orientation and gender identity in the context of workplace discrimination.

Non-employee Workers, Independent Contractors and Interns Will Also Be Protected.

BE HEARD’s provisions will not just apply to employees. Its provisions will also apply to independent contractors and interns.


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Monday, August 5, 2024

NJ Age Discrimination Lawyer, Oldest Worker Unfairly Criticized, Then Given Poor Evaluations


The employees who are the oldest in their workplace within their particular job group or job description, be it mid-level management, upper-level executive, and even vice-presidents, frequently have their work evaluated far more harshly than their younger counterparts, in the employer’s effort to pressure them to resign. Particularly after the older employee’s years of loyal service expanding the company’s profits, the employer’s sudden downturn of their assessment of their work, makes them undervalued and taken for granted. The frustration these older employees experience may cause them to just resign rather than be further humiliated. The younger replacement workers frequently have a starting salary that exceeds that of the more experienced, older long-term workers whom they replaced.

Don’t Sit on Your Rights

If you are a worker who is being forced out of your job, you should contact this office today for a free consultation.


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Monday, July 29, 2024

NJ Employment Discrimination Attorney, Employees with Disabilities During Disability Pride Month


Employees with disabilities are discriminated against in employment despite attempts to raise public awareness through public awareness education and cultural constructs such as the “Disability Pride Movement”. If you think your employer is discriminating against you because of your disability, you should contact this office today for a free consultation.

July of every year is designated as “Disability Pride Month” to commemorate the signing of the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) into law in July of 1990. In New Jersey, the NJ Law Against Discrimination and the ADA prohibits employment discrimination in employment and promotes inclusion in all aspects of society. Disability Pride attempts to stop the characterization of persons with disabilities in a manner which limits their options for action or changes their identity.


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Monday, July 22, 2024

NJ Employment Discrimination Attorney, Employment Discrimination Must Be 1 of 2 Things


Employment discrimination claims because of a discriminatory animus against persons who are in legally protected classes must either cause change in employment status (see explanation below of what constitutes a change in employment status) and/or be harassment creating a hostile work environment. In New Jersey, a supervisor’s nagging/harassing behavior or rudeness toward you is not covered under discrimination law and generally is not illegal unless it results from your being a whistleblower or because you are a member of a legally protected class, which latter qualifier to sustain a claim comes as a surprise to many workers. Under N.J.S.


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