Legal Alert: New Form I-9

Employers-- get ready! The deadline as to when the new Form I-9 must be used is quickly approaching.  In case you are not aware, employers are required to use the Form I-9 to verify the identity and employment authorization of people hired for employment in the United States.  In July...

A Reminder from the Appellate Division on RIFs and Tenured Employees

On August 17, 2017, the New Jersey Appellate Division issued an unpublished opinion in which it upheld the Atlantic City Board of Education’s (“Board”) decision to change the employment of two supervisors from twelve-month positions to ten-month positions due to a reduction in force (...

How Employers Can Win Trials On Reopeners

Last week I wrote about how employers should not handle reopener claims, namely trying them on reports without expert testimony.  The case of Kalucki v. United Parcel Service, A-3486-15T3 (App. Div. August 15, 2017) demonstrates the winning strategy for employers to adopt in reopener...

When it Comes to Diagnostic Testing, Be Careful of the Company You Keep

The U.S. Attorney’s Office for the District of New Jersey reorganized its health care practice in 2010 and created a stand-alone Health Care and Government Fraud Unit to handle both criminal and civil investigations and prosecutions of health care fraud offenses. Since then, that offi...
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