About: Matthew Engelson

Brandie Bookhart had a promising career at Bergen Community College, but it was cut short by her supervisor’s repeated acts of sexual harassment. After enduring nearly 10 months of discomfort and intolerable levels of personal stress and intimidation, she was “constructively terminated.” Soon after she filed a complaint against the college, her harasser and other…

For the past eight years we have been requesting statistics, via OPRA, from the Department of Labor in order to compare results from our firm with the overall averages of unemployment claimants filing appeals.  For the eighth straight year, we are releasing the Department of Labor statistics, as well as our statistics.  The summary is…

In late December, attorney Alan Schorr argued as amicus before the New Jersey Supreme Court on behalf of the National Employment Lawyers Association. Clarence Haley, a maintenance worker at Garden State Laboratories, Inc., had been wrongly arrested and incarcerated for two months lost his job while in jail. Even though all charges were dropped, the…

The New Jersey Supreme Court issued a far-reaching decision today, clarifying the law that protects pregnant or breastfeeding employees who believe that they’ve been the victims of discrimination. The case involved a female police officer who filed suit against the Township of Ocean and various township officials, accusing them of holding pregnant employees to a…

One year after COVID-19 first began sickening American citizens, the development and approval of three vaccines is offering hope that things will soon return to normal. Not only will people be able to socialize and travel again, but all of the changes that have affected businesses — most notably telecommuting for office workers and mask…