Employment Policies

Two years ago, Oregon became the first state to pass a predictable scheduling law. A similar measure was recently introduced in the New Jersey legislature; if passed, the measure would have a significant impact on New Jersey businesses with 250 workers or more,...

Regular readers of our Morristown Employment Law Blog will undoubtedly recall that we recently took a look back at the big changes 2019 brought to New Jersey law. We looked at a couple of topics: penalties for wage violations and changes to the state’s Family Leave...

They say that change is one of the few constants in life. If that’s true, then 2019 was as constant as a year could be for New Jersey employers. Let’s take a look at some of the significant changes to Garden State employment law over the past year. Last July, the...

It’s a relatively short drive south of Morristown to get to Middlesex. The borough’s State Sen Linda Greenstein recently said that in her two decades in the New Jersey legislature, she finds the proposed independent contractor law “the most confusing.” Though she said...

It is important for many employers to hire independent contractors who can perform essential tasks at a lower overall cost than full-time employees with benefits. A bill recently introduced in the New Jersey legislature would create a stricter ABC test for determining...

Workplace romances can complicate office politics and watercooler conversation, but when the relationships involve employees with unequal power, employers can find their employment policies questioned, publicly scrutinized and even the target of litigation. That’s the...

Regular readers of our Morristown employment law blog know that New Jersey’s recent expansion of its wage and hour laws has made it easier for both regulators and workers to level a wide variety of charges against employers. We read recently that state labor auditors...

New Jersey employers have all of the usual challenges that businesses must deal with daily, but they are also compelled to try to keep up with our state’s constant changes in employment law. Of course, it’s not enough to just know about the changes, you are required...

We’re grateful to those who regularly stop by our Morristown Employment Law Blog to check out news and views. You know that it has been a busy summer with revisions to New Jersey employment law coming at a furious pace. We would like to dive back into a topic we...

If your New Jersey employee handbook makes references to the Spice Girls, scrunchies or this new thing called the World Wide Web, it is very likely time for an update. The Garden State’s employment law landscape has undergone significant changes in just the past year...