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New Jersey Updates Discrimination Law: New Rules for AI Fairness

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The New Jersey AG and the Division on Civil Rights’ new guidance on algorithmic discrimination explains how AI tools might be used in ways that violate the New Jersey Law Against Discrimination. The law applies to employers...more

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AI in the Garden State: New Guidance on Algorithmic Discrimination and the New Jersey Law Against Discrimination

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On January 9, 2025, the New Jersey attorney general and the Division of Civil Rights (DCR) announced that the DCR has launched a new Civil Rights and Technology Initiative to address the risks of discrimination stemming from...more

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New Jersey Guidance on AI: Employers Must Comply With State Anti-Discrimination Standards

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On January 9, 2025, New Jersey Attorney General Matthew J. Platkin and the Division on Civil Rights issued guidance stating that New Jersey’s anti-discrimination law applies to artificial intelligence. Specifically, the New...more

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New Jersey AG Platkin Announces New Guidance on AI Use

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On January 9, New Jersey Attorney General (AG) Matthew J. Platkin and the Division on Civil Rights (DCR) launched a new Civil Rights and Technology Initiative aimed at addressing the potential for discrimination and bias...more

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New Jersey Attorney General: NJ’s Law Against Discrimination (LAD) Applies to Automated Decision-Making Tools

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This month, the New Jersey Attorney General’s office (NJAG) added to nationwide efforts to regulate, or at least clarify the application of existing law, in this case the NJ Law Against Discrimination, N.J.S.A. § 10:5-1 et...more

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Third Circuit Rules That Employees Cannot Sue Employers for Discrimination Based on Marijuana Use

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On December 9, 2024, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit held that New Jersey’s Cannabis Regulatory, Enforcement Assistance, and Marketplace Modernization Act (“CREAMMA”) does not provide workers with a private...more

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Third Circuit Affirms That New Jersey’s Cannabis Law Does Not Allow a Private Right of Action

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On December 9, 2024, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit upheld the New Jersey district court’s previous ruling that there is no private right of action under New Jersey’s Cannabis Regulatory, Enforcement...more

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Hospital Policy for Universal Urine Drug Testing of Pregnant Women Comes Under Scrutiny for Alleged Violations of State Law...

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The Attorney General of New Jersey and the Director of the New Jersey Division on Civil Rights jointly commenced a lawsuit against the Virtua Health System and its constituent hospitals alleging that its policy and practices...more

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Be Careful With Non-Disparagement Provisions in Settlements of New Jersey Law Against Discrimination Claims

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The Supreme Court of New Jersey recently issued a decision in Savage v. Twp. Of Neptune, (A-2-23)(087229), 257 N.J. 204 (2024) (slip. op.) holding the parties’ non-disparagement provision to be unenforceable as it was found...more

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New Jersey Proposal for New Rules Pertaining to Disparate Impact Discrimination

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Q. Is there a new standard in New Jersey for disparate impact discrimination?...more

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New Jersey District Court Grapples With Applying State Discrimination Laws to Remote Employees

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As employees continue to work fully remote, courts will be tasked with determining what state discrimination law applies to an employee who does not live or work in the same state as their employer. In grappling with this...more

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New laws, New Jersey

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Some new employment laws are taking effect in New Jersey in 2022. Here is a summary. Age discrimination under the NJLAD. The age discrimination provisions of the New Jersey Law Against Discrimination have been amended to...more

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New Jersey’s Proposed Amendments To Law Against Discrimination Sure To Impact Businesses And Litigation

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The New Jersey Senate is considering a bill (Senate Proposal) that, if passed, will significantly affect business operations and employment litigation in the state for years. Under the bill, the New Jersey Law Against...more

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FAA Preempts New Jersey’s Implied Restriction On Use Of Arbitration Agreements, Court Finds

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To the extent that it attempted to limit the prospective waiver of procedural rights in favor of arbitration or other alternative dispute resolution, the 2019 amendment to the New Jersey Law Against Discrimination (NJLAD) is...more

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District Of New Jersey Rules That New Jersey Ban On Employment Arbitration Agreements Is Preempted By The Federal Arbitration Act

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In a decision rendered March 25, 2021, United States District Court Judge Anne E. Thompson barred the State of New Jersey from enforcing a recently enacted statutory provision that precluded employers from requiring workers...more

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New Jersey Supreme Court Affirms Appellate Division Opinion In First Published Opinion Concerning New Jersey Pregnant Workers...

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On March 9, 2021, the New Jersey Supreme Court issued its published decision in Delanoy v. Township of Ocean, N.J. (2021). A copy of the opinion can be found here. The case arose from a pregnancy discrimination lawsuit filed...more

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