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Hiring & Firing refers to the process of recruiting, interviewing and offering employment and the process of evaluating performance and dismissing employees. Hiring & Firing is a highly regulated area and can create tremendous liability for employers who fail to properly adhere to acceptable employment practices. Some of the potential pitfalls in this area stem from discriminatory hiring practices, improper performance evaluations, and retaliatory firings. less -

Check Your COBRA Notices in Order to Avoid Potential Lawsuits

Foley & Lardner LLP on 10/30/2018

Have you thought about your COBRA notices recently? Of course not, because COBRA notices don’t warrant your valuable time. They are just another one of those pesky notices that the law requires you to send. If that was your...more

Spouse Swapping Not Cool for Police Officers, Says the Fifth Circuit

Bradley Arant Boult Cummings LLP on 5/30/2017

Just how much can you regulate a public employee’s off-duty conduct? In an interesting and rather frank opinion, the Fifth Circuit found a sheriff’s department could regulate deputies’ private conduct pretty broadly. In...more

Appellate Court Notes

Pullman & Comley, LLC on 8/25/2016

Supreme Court Advance Release Opinions: SC19496 - Commission on Human Rights & Opportunities v. Echo Hose Ambulance - The issue of this case was whether or not an unpaid volunteer, in this case for an ambulance...more

New Jersey Employer’s Fear of Employee’s “Ugly Divorce” Forms Basis of Marital Status Bias Claim

Ogletree, Deakins, Nash, Smoak & Stewart,... on 8/16/2016

In Smith v. Millville Rescue Squad, (A-19-14, June 21, 2016), the New Jersey Supreme Court broadly interpreted the prohibition against marital status discrimination in the Law Against Discrimination (LAD) to protect a person...more

Terminated: A Marriage’s End Should Not Lead to Employment’s End

Lewitt Hackman on 7/14/2016

Last month, the New Jersey Supreme Court ruled in Robert Smith v. Millville Rescue Squad (MRS) that an employer cannot terminate an employee for separating or divorcing – the processes of which apparently falls under the...more

Appellate Court Notes

Pullman & Comley, LLC on 4/8/2016

Supreme Court Advance Release Opinions: SC19494 - State v. Berrios - Appellate Court Advance Release Opinions: AC37045 - Hickey v. Commissioner of Correction - AC33954 - Burr Road Operating Co. II, LLC v....more

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Hiring & Firing › Divorce

Check Your COBRA Notices in Order to Avoid Potential Lawsuits

Spouse Swapping Not Cool for Police Officers, Says the Fifth Circuit

Appellate Court Notes

New Jersey Employer’s Fear of Employee’s “Ugly Divorce” Forms Basis of Marital Status Bias Claim

Terminated: A Marriage’s End Should Not Lead to Employment’s End

Appellate Court Notes

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