April 07, 2023
A New Jersey federal judge denied a retirement industry group a win in its federal benefits lawsuit against a Garden State law on mass layoffs that includes mandatory severance requirements, finding the group hadn't sufficiently established standing.
March 24, 2023
New Jersey is in the thick of a lawsuit challenging a major change to companies’ severance obligations when they lay off employees. Here, Law360 Pulse looks at the attorneys on both sides of the high-profile case.
March 22, 2023
The commissioner of New Jersey's Department of Labor and Workforce Development asked a federal judge to throw out a worker retirement industry group's challenge to a state law on mass layoffs, arguing he is immune from the suit and the group has no standing anyway.
May 21, 2021
A New Jersey federal judge has said the state labor commissioner can't escape an Employee Retirement Income Security Act industry group's suit over expanded worker protections under the state's mass layoff law, rejecting the official's argument that he could not be sued because he lacks enforcement authority under the statute.
August 06, 2020
An Employee Retirement Income Security Act industry group hit the state of New Jersey with a complaint Thursday seeking to invalidate new employee protections in the state's mass layoff law, calling the amendments burdensome changes that are preempted by the federal law.