Federal and state laws regarding wages and hours can be complicated, and you may be wondering what’s expected of you or whether you are being taken advantage of. Some employers abuse their authority by mandating that their employees spend more time at work than their contracts specify, without compensating them with...
Medical and recreational marijuana use is now legal in the state of New Jersey. However, marijuana use still isn’t legal on a federal level. This inconsistency causes many employees to question whether they can get fired if they test positive for marijuana in a drug test at work.
Here’s...
Pregnancy is a universal concept. Every person alive today — and every person who will ever be alive in the future — is the child of someone who was once pregnant. Despite pregnancy’s crucial role in continuing humanity’s existence, it is not a well-protected life state in the United States.
Most people split the majority of their time between two places: work and home. For that reason, it’s important that everyone feels safe, healthy, and empowered in both places. Unfortunately, some work environments can be incredibly hostile to their employees.
A toxic workplace can cause severe emotional distress and...
Many employers do not include salary information in job listings. Recently, the New Jersey legislature has taken up a bill that would require employers to disclose salaries in job posts. We will examine the implications of this bill, along with an employee’s rights to discuss their salary once they have been hired.
Summers in New Jersey mean birds chirping, public pools filling, and new temporary work positions opening up all over the state. In February of this year, Governor Murphy signed Bill A1474 into law. This bill, known as the “Temporary Workers’ Bill of Rights,” establishes guidelines for service firms and third-party clients.
Once upon a time, compensation for work was quite simple. You worked for an allotted number of hours and were paid for that work. However, times have changed, and so has compensation.
You likely receive many different types of compensation other than money. For example, you might get medical...
Certain jobs require employees to be on call when they are not clocked in. These jobs usually require an emergency response or some other type of coverage. We will explore the federal and state laws surrounding these policies and explain whether on-call employees should be compensated for their time.
Retaliation occurs when an employer punishes an employee for asserting his or her workplace rights. This could range from talking to HR about how you are being treated, to filing a formal complaint of harassment or discrimination against your supervisor.
Retaliation includes any adverse employment action, including: getting fired,...
You may have seen the controversial issue of employee misclassification in the Lyft/Uber context. You might ask, “why is it such a big deal whether these drivers are classified as employees or independent contractors?” To put it simply, there is a major difference between the two. Employees are often classified as independent...
