On behalf of Curcio Mirzaian Sirot LLC | Jan 25, 2021 | Employment Law
Historians cite 1974 as the year when the courts first heard a sexual harassment lawsuit. Today, the legal system provides a far better mechanism to punish those who harass employees and others. Even with laws in place, sexual harassment continues in New Jersey...
On behalf of Curcio Mirzaian Sirot LLC | Dec 17, 2020 | Employment Law
Discrimination is something that no one should ever experience, and it certainly should not happen in the workplace. Employees and employers are finding new ways to combat discrimination in the workplace, but the first step in fighting workplace discrimination is...
On behalf of Curcio Mirzaian Sirot LLC | Nov 12, 2020 | Employment Law
The surveillance company Verkada has recently come under fire for allegedly sexually harassing female employees. Verkada’s office is outfitted with its own brand of security cameras. In 2019, one of the sales directors gathered images of female employees that...
On behalf of Curcio Mirzaian Sirot LLC | Oct 23, 2020 | Employment Law
By Frank A. Custode, Esq. On September 14, 2020, Governor Murphy signed SB 2380 into law, which creates a rebuttable presumption of workers’ compensation coverage for “essential employees” who contract COVID-19 during a state of emergency. The law is retroactive to...
On behalf of Curcio Mirzaian Sirot LLC | Oct 21, 2020 | Employment Law
Ideally, discrimination of any kind in the workplace would be a thing of the past. However, since we don’t live in an ideal world, New Jersey residents who are working later in life may find themselves the target of age discrimination. There are several signs...
On behalf of Curcio Mirzaian Sirot LLC | Oct 21, 2020 | Employment Law
New Jersey residents may have heard that in 2018, a female Fox News anchor parted ways with the media company. No reason was given for her departure, but the Huffington Post reported that the anchor was facing accusations of sexual harassment. The anchor’s...
On behalf of Curcio Mirzaian Sirot LLC | Oct 7, 2020 | Employment Law
At the present moment, women are said to hold about 50% of the jobs in New Jersey and around the country’s workforce. Another very interesting statistic is that 85% of those women will become pregnant at some point in their careers. Even so, according to the...
On behalf of Curcio Mirzaian Sirot LLC | Sep 23, 2020 | Employment Law
New Jersey companies that have 15 or more employees are generally subject to the Americans with Disabilities Act. This means that they must provide you and other disabled employees with reasonable workplace accommodations. Take a closer look at what a reasonable...
On behalf of Curcio Mirzaian Sirot LLC | Aug 28, 2020 | Employment Law
By Frank A. Custode, Esq. In the recent decision of Skuse v. Pfizer, Inc., et al., (Docket No. A-86018, 082509, decided on August 18, 2020), the New Jersey Supreme Court held that an arbitration policy that was distributed to employees via email as a “training module”...
