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Monday, October 15, 2012
On August 14, 2012, Governor Andrew Cuomo signed a law to prohibit any person, firm, partnership, association or corporation from hiring inmates of correctional facilities for any position that involves accessing, collecting or processing the Social Security number of other individuals.
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Wednesday, August 5, 2009
On June 29, in a highly anticipated 5-4 decision, the U.S. Supreme Court held in Ricci v. DeStefano that the City of New Haven engaged in unlawful intentional race discrimination in violation of Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 ("Title VII") when it discarded a firefighter promotional test because of the racial makeup of the successful test takers...
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Saturday, March 1, 2008
New Jersey employers with 100 or more employees now have another law to contend with when implementing layoffs - the Millville Dallas Airmotive Plant Job Loss Notification Act. The law went into effect on December 20, 2007, and requires employers to provide advance notice to employees who are terminated in a mass layoff or in a shutdown of operations, if...
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Wednesday, November 1, 2006
The United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit recently held that res judicata did not preclude a former employee from seeking damages under Title VII that were unavailable in her prior successful action before a state agency under Connecticut's anti-discrimination law. Nestor v. Pratt & Whitney , 2006 WL 2827236 (2d Cir. Oct. 4, 2006).
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Tuesday, February 1, 2005
In two decisions issued on the same day by the New York Appellate Division, undocumented workers who were suing to recover wages lost as a result of injuries incurred at work were precluded from calculating their damages based on U.S. earnings. They were, however, permitted to seek damages based on the prevailing wage in their home countries. Sanango v....
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Thursday, January 1, 2004
Pregnancy discrimination claims are on the rise.
