Effective immediately, all New Jersey employers are required to treat pregnancy as a protected characteristic under the New Jersey Law Against Discrimination (“NJLAD”), as well as to provide reasonable accommodations when a pregnant employee requests an accommodation based upon advice of her physician, unless it would cause an undue hardship to the employer. The purpose…
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How to Prepare For and Respond To A Cyber Attack: Have A Disaster Recovery Plan
Insider threats, hackers and cyber criminals are all after your data, and despite your best precautions, they may breach your systems. How should small and medium sized businesses prepare for a cyber incident or data breach? Cyber attacks are becoming more frequent, are more sophisticated, and can have devastating consequences. It is not enough for…
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Protecting Against Employee Lawsuits
What is the best way to protect against employee lawsuits? We recently received an inquiry about the best ways for businesses to protect against employee lawsuits. We’ve found that most employee lawsuits occur due to low morale, unaddressed personality conflicts, disparate productivity between employees and/or failure to give effective performance reviews. Of course, it is…
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Employee Who Read and Printed Coworker’s Emails Found Not Guilty of Violating the Stored Communications Act
A New Jersey court recently held that a teacher who accessed and printed a co-worker’s personal email after the coworker left the computer without signing out of her account was not guilty of a crime. By Alice Cheng In Marcus v. Rogers, 2012 WL 2428046 (N.J.Super.A.D. June 28, 2012), a New Jersey court held that a…
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