New Jersey Employment Lawyer Blog

If you are a NJ employment lawyer you should be reading this case. New Jersey's Supreme Court on Tuesday declined to tie wage-discrimination claims to a fixed point in time, holding instead that each paycheck that offends the Law Against Discrimination starts the two-year statute of limitations running anew. The ruling, in Alexander v. Seton Hall University, A-87-09, reinstates LAD claims by three female Seton Hall University professors who were paid less than their younger male colleagues. However, the Court declined to apply the "continuing violation" doctrine that would have allowed the professors to sue for lost wages dating back to when they were hired decades ago. They will be limited to recovering the wage differential only for the two years prior to filing their complaint in 2007. The Court refused to follow the U.S. Supreme Court's much-maligned ruling in Ledbetter v. Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co. The plaintiffs were represented by a New Jersey employment lawyer.