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Practice Groups -
LABOR & EMPLOYMENT LAW
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Like cases of discrimination, instances of harassment in the workplace are governed by the New Jersey Law Against Discrimination (“LAD”). Claims concerning hostile work environment also fall into this area. The LAD prohibits an employer from maintaining a workplace where employees belonging to a “protected class” are harassed based upon his/her membership in that protected class. A person may belong to a “protected class” based upon personal characteristics such as his/her race, age, gender, disability, religion, sexual orientation, or other traits. An employee may be the subject of harassment, or a hostile work environment, if his/her terms and conditions of employment have been altered in an adverse manner, that change has occurred as a result of the person’s membership in a protected class, and a reasonable person in the same position would consider the working conditions to have become altered and hostile.
The attorneys in the Employment Practice Group at Golden Rothschild have a great deal of experience in handling all types of harassment and hostile work environment claims, in all types of settings, for all types of clients.
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