On April 8, 2010, the Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit held that employers must provide “reasonable accommodations” to disabled employees in establishing work schedules, even when the sole disability-related issue involves an employee’s commute to work. In Colwell v. Rite Aid Corp., No. 08-4675 (3d Cir. Apr. 8, 2010), Jeanette Colwell, a part […]

A provision in the recently enacted Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (more commonly known as the “Health Care Reform Act”) requires employers to provide a “reasonable break time” and a place, other than a bathroom, shielded from view and free from intrusion by co-workers and the public for employees to express breast milk for […]

Most New Jersey employers have long operated under the belief that employees have no expectation of privacy in the workplace when using company computers; and, in fact, the employer has the right to review any electronic information contained and/or maintained on work computers.  Recently, however, in Stengart v. Loving Care Agency, Inc., the New Jersey Supreme […]