New Jersey Employment Lawyer Blog

Attention employment lawyers in New Jersey. Start paying attention to Lexology. There is a new player in the legal newsletter business and it appears to be a great source for New Jersey labor and employment law updates. Lexology has taken to the web in a big way. Lexology is a website that compiles submissions from top attorneys by categorizing their specialties and posting their articles for other attorneys to read. At last look, Lexology's database is growing at a rapid pace. I found the labor and employment law database to be helpful and up to date. I suspect we will see Lexology around for quite some time.

I just read an interesting article in the New Jersey Law Journal in which a New Jersey Employment Lawyer cautions employers against giving glowing reviews on the popular website LinkedIn. I agree.

Once again, we see technological advances impacting civil litigation. Employers need to monitor the activities of their managers and employees in posting information on the web about the company and its employees. Why is this important? Well, suppose there is a lawsuit and the issue is whether the employee was terminated for poor performance or discrimination. By simply turning to the world-wide-web, a plaintiff's employment attorney in a discrimination case can show that an employee was a good performer by using glowing reviews found on websites such as LinkedIn.

The best advice from an employment lawyer is to implement a policy in the work place which requires approval from upper management before any information is posted on the web.

An employee's performance is often at issue in employment law cases. Employers should adopt policies and procedures to prevent information from being posted on the Internet, especially given the increasing popularity of websites such as LinkedIn, Facebook, Myspace, etc. etc