TestOn September 21, 2018, the Appellate Division in the matter of Nowakowski v. Board of Review et al., A-0670-17T2, confirmed a denial of unemployment compensation benefits sought by Appellant Alan K. Nowakowski after he voluntarily resigned from his position, despite the Appellant’s argument that he had good cause to resign. […]
In two recent decisions both decided on August 23, 2018, the Appellate Division simultaneously confirmed the broad deference New Jersey courts give to Arbitration Agreements in the employment context, while also marking limitations as to how far even a clear agreement by the parties may extend when involving restrictions on […]
On July 30, 2018, a three judge panel of the Appellate Division upheld a $525,000 jury verdict, for Customer Service Representative Marilyn Velez, against her former employer and supervisor. Velez’s claims were brought under the New Jersey Law Against Discrimination against her employer, Rocktenn Co., a corrugated box producer based […]
The U.S. Supreme Court’s recent 5-4 decision on June 27, 2018 in Janus v. American Federation of State, County, and Municipal Employees, was a landmark decision finding that laws requiring non-union member public-sector employees to pay “agency fees” to relevant unions, were unconstitutional and invalid as a violation of the […]