New Jersey will soon have to design a new test for screening candidates for municipal and county police sergeant positions according to a settlement reached between the U.S. Justice Department and the State. (1) In January 2010, the Justice Department filed suit in U.S. District Court in Newark alleging that…
When a South Jersey woman fell behind on her maintenance fees and her condominium association responded by revoking her privileges to certain amenities, she filed a discrimination complaint. The condo association is now expected to pay $10,000 in settlement of that complaint. (1) Mary Lou Frisch was in arrears on…
It is another in a spate of gender discrimination lawsuits filed recently against large corporations: last Monday a class action lawsuit was filed against Bayer HealthCare Pharmaceuticals and its parent, Bayer Corp., both U.S. units of Bayer AG, alleging the company has engaged in various discriminatory behaviors against its female…
A class-action suit has been filed against Quest Diagnostics charging the Madison, NJ-based firm with age discrimination practices. According to the lawsuit, the company restructured its sales force in 2008 and since that time allegedly held its older employees to higher performance standards than its newer, younger workers. The suit…
Essex County will pay $25,000 to a former corrections officer as part of a settlement of a lawsuit claiming the County’s Department of Corrections violated that officer’s religious rights by not allowing her to wear a khimar, a religiously-mandated headscarf. (1) The U.S. Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division filed suit…
A former employee of Sony Music Holdings, Inc. (doing business as Sony DADC) was awarded a $20,000 settlement over claims that he was harassed due to his sexual orientation during his employment at the company’s Gloucester County manufacturing plant. (1) According to the complaint the employee, Charles E. Morgan, was…
A former stage manager for the “Late Night with Jimmy Fallon” television show filed a sexual discrimination complaint with the U.S. Equal Opportunity Employment Commission (EEOC) alleging that he was demoted and later terminated from his job with the show because the late-night comedian preferred working with women. Paul Tarascio…
Simply having leave policies in place is not enough to satisfy the Americans With Disabilities Act (ADA) if those policies are not flexible enough to “reasonably accommodate” employees with disabilities, contends the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC). The EEOC filed suit against Princeton HealthCare System, a Mercer County, NJ…
The second phase of a six-year battle finally came to an end this month when an African-American family was awarded $120,000 in settlement of a racial discrimination lawsuit against the Sea Isle City School Board. Previously, the family was awarded $550,000 in settlement of the portion of the suit involving…
Even though New Jersey is an “at will” employment state, the New Jersey State Supreme Court this past summer ruled that failure to renew a contract because of age is against the New Jersey’s Anti-Discrimination Law. (1) The case involved Rose Nini, a former dean at Mercer County Community College,…