Rosemary Alito

September 01, 2003 | New Jersey Law Journal

Although the Court addressed a variety of employment issues this year, it is likely to be remembered as the term in which a bare majority - eschewing public policy and pointing fingers at the Legislature all the way - held that the financially strapped Jersey City School District should be required to pay punitive damages to a successful plaintiff under the Conscientious Employee Protection Act.

By Rosemary Alito

20 minute read

August 31, 2007 | New Jersey Law Journal

This year brought several important employment law opinions, explaining � and expanding � the group of workers protected under the Conscientious Employee Protection Act; defining the elements of proof of a claim of retaliation under the Law Against Discrimination in line with parallel federal law; clarifying and limiting the employer's obligation to reasonably accommodate a handicapped employee; and liberally interpreting the standards for certification of a state-wide wage and hour class action

By Rosemary Alito

27 minute read

August 31, 2011 | New Jersey Law Journal

This year brought several important and interesting employment law decisions with wide-reaching implication for employers.

By Rosemary Alito

25 minute read

September 02, 2008 | New Jersey Law Journal

The majority held that Utley had resigned for good cause related to work and not for personal reasons.

By Rosemary Alito

24 minute read

August 31, 2010 | New Jersey Law Journal

The Court's employment decisions this term kept it in the vanguard, addressing novel issues surrounding the use of electronic communications in the workplace, confirming the scope of the continuing violation doctrine and the discovery rule, and adopting a limited interpretation of an exception to the Law Against Discrimination.

By Rosemary Alito

21 minute read