Have you been offered a severance package or agreement from Continental Airlines?  If so, our employment attorneys can assist you with the review and negotiation of the terms of your severance agreement.  Please contact us for a free consultation regarding your severance package.  We have handled hundreds of severance agreements on behalf of employees...

Have you been offered a severance package or agreement from Harrah's?  If so, our employment attorneys can assist you with the review and negotiation of the terms of your severance agreement.  Please contact us for a free consultation regarding your severance package.  We have handled hundreds of severance agreements on behalf of employees in...

Have you been offered a severance package or agreement from Verizon?  If so, our employment attorneys can assist you with the review and negotiation of the terms of your severance agreement.  Please contact us for a free consultation regarding your severance package.  We have handled hundreds of severance agreements on behalf of employees in...

Have you been offered a severance package or agreement from Atlantic Health?  If so, our employment attorneys can assist you with the review and negotiation of the terms of your severance agreement.  Please contact us for a free consultation regarding your severance package.

An employee is required to demonstrate an adverse employment action in order to prevail on a claim of discrimination. Adverse employment actions are typically a termination, demotion, suspension or reduction in pay. The Third Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that a company placing an employee on a Performance Improvement Plan (commonly referred to as...

A California jury ordered film producer Jon Peters to pay his former assistant more than $3 million after finding that Peters sexually harassed her.  The jury found that Peters fondled her at his Malibu home and climbed into bed with her in a hotel while filming "Superman Returns" in 2005.   She claimed that she...

Can a female employee working in the “sexually charged atmosphere” of a company that sells pornography and sex toys sue for being fired in retaliation for reporting sexual harassment? Yes, but it is not as strange as it sounds.  Even though the woman did not find the company’s business objectionable, working for a sex toy...

Title VII, the Federal law that prohibits discrimination, limits the amount of possible damages that can be awarded to a plaintiff based on the number of employees working for the company during the current or preceding calendar year. The limits apply to both compensatory and punitive damages. If the company has 15-100 employees, the...

The Parental Bereavement Act ("PBA") was introduced in the Senate in July 2011.  The PBA would amend the Family and Medical Leave Act to protect leave taken by employees for the death of a child.  This is currently not protected by any Federal or State law in New Jersey.  However, many companies do have...

A Superior Court judge ruled that the State of New Jersey must pay thousands of corrections officers back pay for participating in a pilot program that lasted 10 years longer than its experimental phase.  The ruling makes the State liable for millions of dollars in pay from 1999 to 2009 during a 14-week training...