Before acting, call our wrongful discharge employment law attorneys for legal advice.
Generally, at-will employees can be fired or terminated from employment for any reason or no reason at all. There are statutory exceptions to this rule, however. At-will employees cannot be fired because of their age, race, sex, religion, or disability, for taking a qualified medical leave, for objecting to a polygraph test, serving on a jury, for fulfilling military duties, or merely for having a criminal conviction.
A Termination From Employment Cannot Be Against the Public Policy of New Jersey.
Even with at-2ill employees, employers are not permitted to terminate an employee(s) if the termination will violate an important public policy. Examples of impermissible termination include when an employee makes certain statements of public concern, seeks worker’s compensation or unemployment compensation, reports safety violations in the workplace, and refuses to engage in or commit a crime.
The examples listed above are not an all-inclusive list of grounds for wrongful termination. Many state laws, such as New Jersey’s Conscientious Employee Protection Act and Law Against Discrimination (LAD), provide far broader protections to at-will employees than exist under federal law.
The Law of Wrongful Termination and Discharge of Employment
Fredrick P. Niemann Esq.
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Written by Fredrick P. Niemann, Esq. of Hanlon Niemann & Wright, a New Jersey Employment Law Attorney
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