Genova, Burns & Vernoia
Newark, NJ
www.GBVlaw.com
SPolledri@GBVlaw.com
(973) 535-7123
Sandro Polledri, a partner at Genova, Burns & Vernoia, is a member of the firm's Litigation practice group. He practices primarily in the areas of employment law, labor law and employment and commercial litigation. Mr. Polledri has received his Civil Trial Attorney Certification from the New Jersey Supreme Court, and has extensive experience as a trial attorney, handling jury trials, bench trials, administrative proceedings and arbitration hearings.
A New Jersey appeals court has upheld the termination of an employee even though a government agency cleared him of the alleged misconduct that led to his dismissal. That means employers still have the right to make their own decisions about conduct and what they believe happened.
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Relatively few lawsuits—including discrimination and employment-related cases—are actually tried in a courtroom. In most cases, the parties reach a private settlement. But what happens if the parties reach a settlement and the employer holds up its end of the bargain, only to have the employee have second thoughts and bring another lawsuit?
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A New Jersey court has held that e-mails employees send to their attorneys via work computers are not protected by the attorney-client privilege. The court’s willingness to rule that an employer’s right to control how employees use its computer equipment trumps attorney-client privilege is significant. The decision makes it clearer than ever that employers should carefully consider the language they use in their employee handbooks.
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The New Jersey Supreme Court has ruled for the first time on the proof employees must offer to make a religion-based hostile work environment claim stick. The case, Cutler v. Dorn, established that New Jersey courts must decide workplace religious discrimination claims using the same legal standards they use in racial and gender discrimination claims.
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