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 Avoiding Avoidance, an article by Michael Connolly, Esq.

Avoiding Avoidance, an article by Michael Connolly, Esq.

  • On January 12, 2023
What To Do When You Receive a Letter Demanding That You Pay Back Money Previously Received from a Client That Has Since Filed for Bankruptcy In good economic times and bad, business owners face a dynamic range of concerns. One for example, their customers may file for bankruptcy, or have in fact, filed for bankruptcy. […]
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As featured in NJ Defense Association Winter 2023 Newsletter

As featured in NJ Defense Association Winter 2023 Newsletter

  • On January 4, 2023
Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, the Americans with Disabilities Act, and the New Jersey Law Against Discrimination prohibit harassment and discrimination in employment against enumerated legally protected classes. These protected classes include both disability and religion. The laws further mandate employers to attempt to provide employees with “reasonable accommodations” for either […]
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Attention New Jersey Residents Working in New York: Can New York Tax Employees While Working Remotely From New Jersey?

Attention New Jersey Residents Working in New York: Can New York Tax Employees While Working Remotely From New Jersey?

  • On December 23, 2020
Lawful or not, it is happening, but New Jersey has joined New Hampshire’s efforts to preclude taxation upon employees working remotely from another state. With millions of employees working from home because of COVID, what are the tax consequences when the employee lives in a different state than his employer? New Hampshire has sued neighboring […]
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Mandatory Vaccinations: To Require or Not Require, that is the question

Mandatory Vaccinations: To Require or Not Require, that is the question

  • On December 21, 2020
The COVID-19 pandemic has altered life as we know it. As we have heard many times, the “new normal” is our reality now. The COVID-19 pandemic has created numerous issues that touch almost all aspects of society and our economy. As a result, there have been many quandaries and perplexities that arise in the workplace […]
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COVID-19 Doesn’t Discriminate: The Effects Are Felt on All Aspects of Society

COVID-19 Doesn’t Discriminate: The Effects Are Felt on All Aspects of Society

  • On October 20, 2020
As we enter the eighth month of the COVID-19 pandemic, the world looks vastly different than it once did. The majority of US students are still attending school virtually or in a hybrid approach, erasing what we once thought of as “regular school hours.” Economic and health care concerns have eliminated many childcare and housekeeping […]
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Gender Identity Harassment and Discrimination

Gender Identity Harassment and Discrimination

  • On June 19, 2020
Currently, about 21 state laws make it unlawful to permit harassment or discrimination in employment based on gender identity and expression and sexual orientation. New Jersey is one of those states and has been ahead of the current legal curve in that gender identity and expression, including transgender status, and sexual orientation, are expressly considered […]
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Be An Ally to LGBTQ Individuals

Be An Ally to LGBTQ Individuals

  • On April 6, 2020
Under many state and municipal laws, LGBTQ individuals have some legal protections. Currently, the Supreme Court of the United States is considering various employment law cases in which discrimination in employment, based on Gender Identity / Expression and Sexual Orientation, would expressly deem to be protected classes under Title VII of the Civil Rights Act […]
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The Nuts and Bolts of the Family First Corona Virus Response Act

The Nuts and Bolts of the Family First Corona Virus Response Act

  • On March 30, 2020
In the advent of the COVID-9 pandemic, the U.S. government expeditiously signed into law historical, temporary measures to provide individual employees paid sick and family leave if the leave will be related to particular COVID-19 absences from work. The paid family leave portion is called the Emergency Expansion of the Family Medical Leave Expansion Act […]
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Protecting LGBTQ Rights in the Workplace

Protecting LGBTQ Rights in the Workplace

  • On June 19, 2019
The month of June is recognized as LGBTQ Pride Month in commemoration of a historic raid in June 1969 of a traditionally gay bar, The Stonewall Inn, in Greenwich Village, NYC. The month of June is therefore recognized as LGBTQ Pride Month. In many cities across America, support for LGBTQ pride symbolized by the many […]
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Stop Sexual Harassment in NYC Act

Stop Sexual Harassment in NYC Act

  • On May 8, 2019
Mayor De Blasio and the NYC Commission on Human Rights are dedicated to ending gender-based harassment in the five boroughs. To that end, Mayor De Blasio created a new Sexual Harassment Taskforce in 2018, which is the first in the nation, aimed to assist victims and bring perpetrators to justice. In addition, in 2018, a […]
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