On March 18, 2019, New Jersey Governor Phil Murphy signed into law Senate Bill 121 (“S121”), amending the New Jersey Law Against Discrimination (“NJLAD”). The NJLAD is New Jersey’s central anti-discrimination law. NJLAD prohibits employers from discriminating against employees in any job-related action, including recruitment, interviewing, hiring, promotions, discharge, and...
On March 12, 2019 Reavis Page Jump Counsel Ethan Krasnoo delivered a presentation to the New York City Bar Association Entertainment Law Committee entitled “#MeToo Year Two and the Entertainment Industry.” His presentation first focused on the law underlying claims of sexual harassment as well as recent New York statutory...
Over the last year, many states and localities have enacted new laws responding to the #MeToo movement, requiring employers to increase their vigilance in preventing and addressing sexual harassment in the workplace. For example, as of October 9, 2018, all New York State employers with even just one employee are...
On January 30, RPJ Partner Nicole Page moderated a panel at the Realscreen Summit 2019 discussing new laws affecting production companies and examining legislative changes effective since #MeToo. “The More You Know: Avoiding Liability in the Production Workplace” covered new laws on sexual harassment, paid family leave, pay equity and worker misclassification for production companies who...
At the Getting Real '18 conference last September, RPJ Partner Nicole Page moderated a panel entitled "After #MeToo," which was then profiled in Suz Curtis's article, "Slouching Towards Parity: Panelists Discuss Filmmaking in the #MeToo Era." Given recent changes to New York laws and the creation of The Gender-Based Anti-Harassment Unit...
New year. New laws. New requirements. Mandatory training. For more than 20 years, our attorneys at Reavis Page Jump LLP have assisted employers and employees in mitigating risk and addressing allegations of harassment and discrimination in the workplace. In the wake of the #MeToo movement, a growing number of cities and...
This past Saturday, January 19, RPJ Partner Helen D. ("Heidi") Reavis was featured in a scheduled interview on WBAI Radio 99.5 FM about the 2019 Women's March and recent specific changes in New York City and State law. Heidi also took the opportunity to promote RPJ’s Anti-Harassment and Discrimination Prevention Training courses as a means for...
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In November 2017, I was contacted by a woman who was sexually assaulted by her boss in the elevator at work. There was no dispute about what occurred – it had been captured on security video. This woman who I will call Jane, hired me to represent her in her...
As discussed in my prior article, “Exploring the Role of Defamation in the #MeToo Narrative,” defamation has played a central role throughout the development of the #MeToo movement to advantage both the accused and the accusers. For the accusers, claiming defamation by the harasser has, on occasion, served as a...