Tennessee’s governor recently signed three new employment laws. The first, a social media law, takes effect on January 1, 2015,and provides applicants and employees with social media protections similar to those in fifteen other states.The second, a negligent hiring and retention law, designed to provide a measure of protection to employers that hire and retain
Philadelphia recently amended the city’s fair practices ordinance to expand the protections against discrimination for employees based on pregnancy, childbirth, or a related medical condition. This alert examines the amendment, which took effect on January 20, 2014.
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On January 21, 2014, Governor Chris Christie signed S2995 to amend New Jersey’s Law Against Discrimination (LAD) by expanding protections against discrimination for employees affected by pregnancy, effective immediately. The amendment makes pregnancy a protected characteristic under the LAD, expressly requires that an employer provide reasonable accommodation to an employee based upon pregnancy-related conditions when
On December 5, 2013, the New Jersey State Senate introduced S-3064 to protect unpaid interns from employment discrimination by amending the Law Against Discrimination, the Conscientious Employee Protection Act and the Worker Freedom from Employer Intimidation Act. New Jersey’s employment discrimination laws are already among the most expansive in the country, so if this new