Labor Law

Medical leave often involves several overlapping laws at once. This post explains how the FMLA, the New Jersey Family Leave Act, and disability accommodation rules interact, and how to protect your job while you are out for a serious health condition.

Employees are protected from discrimination based on national origin, ancestry, and accent. This post explains what national origin discrimination covers, when English-only workplace rules are lawful, and how to respond to bias tied to where you or your family come from.

Workers with caregiving responsibilities sometimes face assumptions and bias that violate the law. This post explains how caregiver discrimination connects to sex, disability, and family leave protections, and what employees can do when caregiving costs them opportunities at work.

New Jersey has one of the strongest equal pay laws in the country. The Diane B. Allen Equal Pay Act bars pay disparities based on protected characteristics for substantially similar work and allows for significant damages. This post explains who is covered and how the law works.

Remote work has become a common accommodation request for employees with disabilities. This post looks at when working from home qualifies as a reasonable accommodation, how employers evaluate these requests, and what changed after the shift to widespread remote work.