The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) announced last week that it will begin issuing charge closure documents that were suspended because of the COVID-19 pandemic. The EEOC has continued enforcing the nation’s employment non-discrimination laws during the COVID-19 pandemic while ensuring that all of our activities are consistent with public health guidelines. On March […]
Discrimination
Workplace Policies All Employers Should Consider Before Reopening
New Jersey is slowly beginning to reopen, but as lawyers at Connell Foley point out, return to work does not necessarily mean a return to normal. As government restrictions on business operations are lifted, businesses will need to have plans in place for doing business in the age of coronavirus. Connell Foley attorneys Michael J. […]
Defending the Unconscious: How to Guard Against Legal Claims of Implicit Bias
When we think of discrimination in the workplace, we imagine overt acts that reflect prejudice: A company that doesn’t hire young people because the hiring manager makes it known he doesn’t like millennials; a department head looks the other way on racy photos hanging in the shop; or one ethnicity or gender consistently promoted over […]
Assembly Bill 3832 (Quijano, Munoz) Requires businesses receiving financial assistance from EDA be prohibited from any gender gap payment practice to their employees
On behalf of our 20,000 members and their 1.2 million employees, I am writing to express our opposition to A-3832. The bill would require the New Jersey Economic Development Authority (EDA) to adopt rules and regulations requiring that a business that receives financial assistance from the authority is not to engage in gender discrimination against […]