Employment

Many employees at some point become unhappy with their work situation and feel “fed up” with their work environment. Sometimes they believe that their boss is pressuring them to resign.  They may need time to secure another position with a different employer but are concerned about the lack of income during the period after they quit and before they secure new employment.

If you are unhappy in your job and thinking about resigning, you should contact an experienced employment law attorney before you do so. If you think your employer is forcing you out, pressuring you to quit, discriminating against you, harassing you, or illegally retaliating against you, you can contact this law office now for a free consultation.

Since the Supreme Court’s 2013 decision in Shelby County v. Holder, the Court has taken on additional voter rights cases and continued the distancing of the federal judiciary as pro-active monitor for the Fourteenth Amendment.

In 2018, in Husted v. A. Philip Randolph Inst.

NJ Employment Discrimation Attorney Historical Racism Part XI, Shelby County v. Holder Changed Way Voting Rights Act Implemented Nationwide; Justice Ruth Bader Ginsberg’s Dissent

https://www.justice.

Since 1976, every U.S. president has officially designated the month of February as Black History Month. As today is the first day of Black History Month, I will share my favorite quotes on Justice as authored by Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

Many employees at some time feel that “enough is enough” on their job, are unhappy with their work situation, and want to quit and collect benefits while they try to locate a better employment position. Unfortunately, with rare exceptions, if a NJ worker voluntarily quits their employment position, she/he generally will not be entitled to receive unemployment benefits.

If you are unhappy in your job and thinking about resigning, you should contact an experienced employment law attorney before you do so. If you think your employer is forcing you out, pressuring you to quit, discriminating against you, harassing you, or illegally retaliating against you, you can contact this law office now for a free consultation.

In determining whether a claimant is entitled to benefits, the major question is whether the separation from work was involuntary.

Details of 19^th, 20^th and 21st century Jim Crow culture and laws including payment of poll taxes and the requirement of passing complex literacy tests selectively given to suppress black votes, which tests were administered by local officials with no federal oversight, may be reviewed in the Nov. 24^th and Dec. 8th articles.

Gerrymandering was another method states employed for Black voter suppression.

Gerrymandering

Gerrymandering is defined by the Oxford dictionary as the manipulation of  the boundaries of an electoral constituency to achieve a result to favor one class or party.

Persons sometimes believe that for them to have an actionable whistleblower claim under New Jersey Law, that they had to have reported or "whistleblew" what they believe to be their employer's illegal acts to some type of  regulatory body such as the Dept. of Banking & Insurance,  Depart. of Health,  OSHA, or to the police, or a newspaper or other news outlet.

However, the NJ  whistleblower statute, the Conscientious Employee Protection Act (“CEPA”), N.J.

The Black Civil Rights Movement to end segregation started in the 1950's. NAACP activist Rosa Parks was a  major catalyst when in December 1955, she refused to give up her seat on a public bus to a white man. This Movement continued into the 1960's and began garnering national attention with the 1961 Freedom Riders. To listen to Philip Randolph's stirring and famous speech on the August 28, 1963 March on Washington, click here; “We are the advanced guard of a massive, moral revolution for jobs and freedom. This revolution reverberates throughout the land touching every city, every town, every village where black men are segregated, oppressed and exploited.

Literacy tests

Many American blacks were uneducated and their ancestors had been illiterate for decades as it had been against the law to teach a slave to read and write. Schools were segregated by race and the funding for and quality of education for black children was inferior. Jim Crow states enacted “literacy tests” as a prerequisite to voting to prevent blacks from voting.

These tests were  administered at the discretion of the locals in charge of voter registration and were not administered uniformly, with the most difficult questions that were required to be answered correctly given only to prospective black voters.   Many white educated voters would not have been able to pass the  literary tests given to black prospective voters.

NJ employees who are disabled sometimes hit stone walls when they ask their employer for a disability accommodation that will allow them to keep working.   Some employers either deliberately or unknowingly do not understand the law and the standards to be applied.

First, in New Jersey, all employers, public and private, under the NJ Law Against Discrimination (LAD) are required by law to provide reasonable accommodations for an employee’s disability to allow them to keep working. This is true whether the disability is temporary or permanent. These cases frequently turn on what is considerable to be “reasonable” accommodation standards for an employee’s disability accommodation.