NJ Labor And Employment Law

The New Jersey Labor and Employment Law Blog is authored by Jay S. Becker and Joseph C. DeBlasio, shareholders in the Labor and Employment Law Practice Group, with support from the associates in the Group. It is dedicated to provide news and updates regarding all labor and employment matters throughout New Jersey.

Jay S. Becker Featured Guest on blogtalkradio’s Business Dig Discussing The Importance Of A Social Media Policy

Whether you have one employee or hundreds, in today’s electronic world, you should assume that your employees are using some type of social media in their personal lives, and likely in their professional lives too.  Are you?  Is your company or organization taking advantage of social media marketing such as Facebook, Twitter, [...]

Jay Becker & Ari Burd Author Article, “A Review of the ADAAA Final Regulations”

Although the ADA Amendments Act of 2008 (ADAAA) was enacted on Sept. 25, 2008, and became effective Jan. 1, 2009, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) did not issue the final amended regulations to the ADAAA until March 25, 2011. These regulations, which became effective on May 24, 2011, provide [...]

Union Attacks Homebuilder’s Use of Independent Contractors

In 2007, New Jersey became the first state to enact legislation giving a private right of action to workers who claim to have been denied employment because of a contractor’s knowing misclassification of its laborers as independent contractors.  In a recent suit filed this month, N.J. Regional Council of Carpenters v. D.R. Horton, the Union [...]

COBRA Subsidy and Unemployment Extended Again

Not much of a surprise, the COBRA 65%-35% premium subsidy and unemployment compensation benefits were extended once again.
The Continuing Extension Act of 2010 was signed into law on April 15th, once again extending the COBRA premium subsidy to May 31, 2010. The Act also extended unemployment compensation benefits.
There is also a proposal pending to extend [...]

COBRA Premium Subsidy extended again

The Temporary Extension Act of 2010 was signed into law on March 2, 2010, effectively extending the COBRA premium subsidy program originally enacted under the ARRA, to March 31, 2010. As you may recall from one of my earlier posts, the COBRA premium subsidy had already been extended once before last month. This second extension [...]

UPDATE: Model COBRA Notices Published by the DOL

UPDATE:  Model COBRA Notices Published by the DOL
On January 13, 2010, the United States Department of Labor finally published the long awaited model Notices extending the COBRA premium subsidy needed by employers, insurers and health care plan administrators in order to comply with the notification requirements under the 2010 Department of Defense Appropriations Act (”DOD Act”).  Three [...]

Extended and Expanded COBRA Relief

On December 19, 2009 President Obama signed the 2010 Department of Defense Appropriations Act (DOD Act), which provides extended and expanded COBRA premium relief to countless involuntarily unemployed Americans from what was originally provided under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (ARRA).  And stay tuned, because there is other legislation pending in the [...]