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How to report audit results and resolve issues identified in the audit

Ogletree Deakins
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USA
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November 7 2012

In this, our fourth installment in our series on the “Anatomy of a Department of Labor Audit,” we address both how to report audit results and how to resolve issues identified in the audit

Hurricane Sandy and crisis management

Ogletree Deakins
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USA
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October 30 2012

Hurricane Sandy is leaving a wake of destruction in major cities across the East Coast that can have a devastating effect on your business, management, employees, and customers

New Jersey bill seeks to make independent contractor relationship onerous and risky

Ogletree Deakins
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USA
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October 15 2012

On September 27, 2012, a bill (A3310) was introduced that seeks to place onerous requirements on employers that engage independent contractors (for $600 or more), and that would impose significant damages and penalties for noncompliance with pay arrangements

Weak job growth expected in 2012-2013

Ogletree Deakins
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USA
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March 27 2012

Despite the optimistic numbers reflected in the state’s jobless rate at the close of 2011, Louisiana State University economists have predicted that the state’s job growth over the next two years will be sluggish

Criminal background checks on the horizon for home enterprise industry

Ogletree Deakins
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USA
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April 18 2011

A bill recently introduced and currently under review by the Assembly Consumer Affairs Committee (A3889), if passed, would require criminal background checks for owners and employees of home services enterprises

Unreasonable delay in prosecution may warrant dismissal of trade secrets case

Ogletree Deakins
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USA
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August 6 2010

In a trade secrets case, the Appellate Division recently held it was appropriate to submit the defense of laches to a jury, even though the statute of limitations had not yet expired

NJLAD’s “refusal to do business” provision prohibits conditioning business on submission to sexual advances

Ogletree Deakins
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USA
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February 1 2010

Although most employers are aware that the New Jersey Law Against Discrimination (NJLAD) prohibits employment discrimination on the basis of sex, a lesser known provision of the NJLAD, N.J.S.A. 10:5-12(l), also prohibits discriminatory refusals to do business on the basis of sex

Third Circuit addresses standard for evaluating misappropriation of confidential information claims

Ogletree Deakins
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USA
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September 2 2009

In this case, the defendant’s previous employer sued him, as well as his new employer, after learning that he had misappropriated product information which he then used to capture his former employer’s clients

NJ Supreme Court expands whistleblower law's coverage

Ogletree Deakins
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USA
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July 27 2007

The New Jersey Supreme Court recently issued two opinions expanding the class of workers entitled to protection under the Conscientious Employee Protection Act ("CEPA"), N.J.S.A. 34:19-1 to -8, also known as New Jersey's "whistleblower" statute