Results achieved in prior matters are not meant to be a guarantee of success as the facts and legal circumstances vary from matter to matter.
How Can We Help You?
The Wilentz, Goldman & Spitzer P.A. Employment and Workplace Litigation team represent employees with all aspects of employment-related matters, including but not limited to:
- Advice and Counsel concerning any issue, matter or concern relating to employment
- Review of Employment Agreements, such as:
- Confidentiality Agreements
- Contracts for employment/offer letters
- Restrictive Covenants – Non-Compete, Non-Solicitation, etc.
- Independent contractor agreements
- Commission agreements
- Severance agreements
- Support and counsel engaging with Human Resources (HR)
- Review, support and counsel concerning Performance Improvement Plans (PIP)
- Review of terminations; analysis of constructive discharge
- Counsel related to disabilities, religious accommodations or pregnancy
- leaves of absence
- requests for accommodations
- engaging in the interactive process
- Unemployment
- Assistance applying for benefits
- Assistance appealing claim denials for benefits
- Pre-Litigation Demand Letters and Negotiations/Mediation
- Litigation
- Cease and Desist, Breach of Contract
What can we help with?
- Accommodations for Disabilities
- Accommodations for Pregnancy
- Accommodations for Religious Beliefs and Practices
- Artificial Intelligence
- Background Checks
- Breastfeeding
- Discrimination – actual, associational or perceived discrimination or harassment based on:
- age
- ancestry
- breastfeeding
- civil union status
- disability
- domestic partnership
- domestic violence
- gender
- gender identity and/or expression
- genetic trait
- marital status
- nationality
- national origin
- pregnancy
- race/color
- religion/creed
- service in the armed forces
- sexual orientation
- sex – sexual harassment/quid pro quo
- any other protected class
- Domestic Workers’ Bill of Rights
- Drug Testing
- Equal Pay
- Hiring – Offer Letters, Employment Agreements and Arbitration Agreements
- Hostile Work Environment/Harassment
- Independent Contractors
- Protected Leaves – FMLA/NJFLA
- Overtime
- Pregnancy Laws
- Restrictive Covenants
- Non-Compete
- Non-Solicitation
- Retaliation
- Sick Leave
- Termination – resignation, termination, constructive discharge
- Wage and Hour disputes – overtime disputes, minimum wage, etc.
- Whistleblower Claims – Conscientious Employee Protection Act (CEPA)
Relevant Laws in Our Employee Rights Practice:
- Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA)
- Pregnant Workers Fairness Act (PWFA)
- New Jersey Law Against Discrimination (NJLAD)
- New Jersey Earned Sick Leave Law (NJESL)
- Family and Medical Leave Act (FMLA)
- New Jersey Family and Medical Leave Act (NJFLA)
- Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA)
- Age Discrimination in Employment Act (ADEA)
- Older Workers Benefit Protection Act (OWBPA)
- Federal Equal Pay Act (EPA)
- Federal WARN Act
- Occupational Safety and Health Act (OSHA)
- New Jersey Security and Financial Empowerment Act (NJ SAFE Act) concerning domestic violence and sexually violent offenses
- New Jersey Wage Payment Law (NJWPL)
- New Jersey Dianne B. Allen Equal Pay Act
- New Jersey Domestic Workers’ Bill of Rights
- New Jersey Family Leave Insurance (NJFLI)
- New Jersey Temporary Disability Insurance (TDI)
- New Jersey mini-WARN Act
Our practice group Co-Chair, Maureen S. Binetti, is the past co-chair of the Employment Rights and Responsibilities Committee of the Labor and Employment Law Section of the American Bar Association and serves as a Bencher for the Sidney Reitman Labor and Employment Law Inn of Court. She is certified by the New Jersey Supreme Court as a Civil Trial Attorney, frequently serves as a court-appointed and private mediator of employment disputes, and has been handling employment matters for over 30 years.
Our team is experienced in all aspects of employment law and are frequent lecturers and authors on employment law topics affecting the business community. The complex issues surrounding this area of law require concentrated effort and expertise to keep abreast of day-to-day developments. The experience of our employment attorneys in New Jersey, combined with our firm's resources, enables us to assist with any employment law concern.
