Advocates for NJ and PA
Workers & Their Families
There may come a point when you're ready to leave your current job for a new opportunity. While it's a big decision, once you're sure it's the right one, you begin to move forward full steam ahead.But then you hit a snag: Your current employer threatens you because...
A lot of things can go wrong as an employee, but there's little worse than finding that you're a victim of workplace retaliation. In the business world, retaliation comes in the form of a punishment for taking some type of action against your employer, such as filing...
While you've worked at your current company, you've seen many things with which you disagree. You saw a supervisor catcall a fellow employee. You saw a client come in and continuously flirt with a coworker whom you knew was uncomfortable, but the boss encouraged her...
It may be the farthest thing from your mind, but workplace sexual harassment remains a very big problem throughout the country. Even with state and federal laws in place to protect against this, you never know when someone will cross the line. If you have reason to...
There was a time in America when workers had very few rights or expectations of their treatment. Until labor activists pressed governments in Trenton and Washington to offer adequate protections to the workers who carry the state and the nation, people in New Jersey...
The Employment Retirement Income Security Act (ERISA) went into effect in the United States in 1974. It aims to protect workers' rights to their employer-sponsored benefits including group health care and pension plans.ERISA makes it so employers are required to...
Certain federal laws exist that can land an employer in hot water if they violate them. Many of these pieces of legislation prohibit discrimination in the workplace. The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) is responsible for enforcing federal laws such as...
The supervisor of curriculum and instruction at the Stafford Township School District (STSD) filed a sexual harassment retaliation lawsuit against the school system's superintendent on Dec. 12. In her filing, she alleges that her boss repeatedly sent her text messages...
Even if you have a set work schedule, there may come a point when your employer asks you to jump in and help with overflow work. For example, they could ask that you stick around after hours to catch up on work before the holidays arrive. While there is nothing wrong...
Most working adults understand that they have special protections under federal law if they have to report their employer for doing something illegal. Whether someone reports their employer to a government regulatory agency or makes a report to upper management about...
