New Jersey employment lawyers for the State and unions may be going to war. New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie's recently made a decision not to give workers Black Friday off. New Jersey's former Governor, Jon Corzine, had permitted the unions to trade the day after Thanksgiving for Lincoln's Birthday in February. The workers can take the time as a vacation day.
The CWA state director, Hetty Rosenstein, is calling Christie's move "dirty pool".
Employee Relations director David Cohen has gone on the record to state that legislation is needed to exchange holidays. Otherwise, Cohen says state workers could get both days off.
According to the Associated Press, one union leader is threatening to go to court seeking to enforce Corzine's 2009 Memorandum of Agreement.
It will be interesting to see how the New Jersey empoloyment lawyers, and labor lawyers for the uinions, battle this dispute.
