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New Jersey has a track record of protecting employees with policies that lead the nation in progressive employment legislation. The Murphy Administration has introduced many new laws that impact millions of employees throughout the state. Here is a list of laws that have been or will be enacted. Feel free to give us a call […]
The morass of family leave laws just got more complicated. Senate bill No. 2528 which was signed into law on Tuesday, Feb 19th 2019, is a taxpayer-funded expansion to the already existing Family Leave Act (FLA) and Paid Family Leave Insurance (FLI). This bill allows New Jersyans to get benefits for up to 12 weeks if they are […]
On January 25, Governor Cuomo signed into law the Gender Expression Non-Discrimination Act (GENDA) banning discrimination against transgender and non-binary employees working in New York. GENDA amends the State Human Rights Law to make it unlawful for employers to discriminate against applicants and employees based on their gender identity and gender expression. It is now […]
Hamilton Township Chief Financial Officer (CFO) has filed a complaint in Mercer County Superior Court against the township Mayor, the Business Administrator, and the Chief of Staff. The complaint alleges that the CFO is a whistleblower protected by the Conscientious Employee Protection Act (CEPA). This act, makes it illegal for private employers to retaliate against […]
This week, Associate Attorney Kofman-Delgado, Esq. was able to secure a $180,000 settlement for our client who was involved in a motor vehicle accident. Our client was a 31-year-old male who was a rear seat passenger of a friend’s vehicle when it was struck by a negligent driver who let his vehicle veer into the […]
Typically, corporate directors and officers are not personally liable for actions undertaken by the business but courts will impose such liability when a statute provides for individual liability. A federal court however, recently ruled that New Jersey’s Prevailing Wage Act (PWA) “does not impute personal liability” to corporate officers. Palmisano, et al v. Crowdergulf, LLC, et […]
The Appellate Division recently affirmed a sexual harassment and retaliation jury award in favor of plaintiff, Marilyn Velez, who transferred into a customer service position at RockTenn Co., a corrugated box company in Newark, NJ, in November of 2010. Velez claimed that her new boss, Raymond Perry, asked her out on dates, stared at her, made […]
In the first case, our client, a 70-year-old man, was stuck by a motor vehicle while walking in a crosswalk and sustained a leg fracture that required surgical intervention. The defense contested the case by vigorously arguing that our client was wearing dark clothes and was not walking in the clearly defined lines of the […]
Attorney Yelena Kofman-Delgado, Esq Case 1: An 87 year old man tripped on a defective curb/sidewalk at his condominium association. He sustained a broken hip requiring surgical intervention. The matter settled for $130,000.00. The defendant greatly contested liability, since the plaintiff was not able to point out with certainty exactly where he […]
In a matter that has been recently covered nationally in the news, and is leading the debate in New Jersey by reforming legislation regarding the reporting of the actions of teachers and educators, partner John M. Vlasac Jr. achieved $1.2 M for our infant client who was sexually assaulted by a teacher in a Somerset county […]
