New Jersey Governor Phil Murphy signed legislation this month that makes it a crime to use 911 as a tool to intimidate another person based on his or her race. The bill, which has already taken effect, was introduced to the State Senate on June 29, 2020. It amends and…
Earlier this week, New Jersey’s Assembly and Senate passed a ban on discrimination associated with hair. Discrimination based on hair has been popping up in courtrooms and legislatures across the country. Once Governor Murphy signs off, it will be unlawful to discriminate based upon hair. In several states, bills have…
On June 3, 2019, the United States Supreme Court released an important decision in the case Fort Bend County, Texas v. Davis (slip opinion available at: https://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/18pdf/18-525_m6hn.pdf) regarding claims of employment discrimination under Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 (“Title VII”). This decision promises to have widespread…
The New Jersey Appellate Division has ruled that an employee is not disqualified from receiving unemployment benefits for refusing to submit to a flu vaccination policy for purely secular reasons. In the case of June G. Valent v. Board of Review, Department of Labor, the employee, Ms. Valent, was employed…
The New Jersey Appellate Division recently reversed a trial court’s granting of summary judgment dismissing an employee’s claim under the New Jersey Law Against Discrimination when Defendants wrongly perceived the employee to be Jewish and directed daily Anti-Semitic comments at him. The court disagreed with the trial court’s determination that…