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Supreme Court of New Jersey Employment Law Decision Clarifies Standard for Illegal Workplace Harassment
In an important employment law decision, New Jersey’s Supreme Court once again considered the actions necessary to constitute illegal workplace harassment in the case of Rios v. Meda Pharmaceutical, Inc. In this case the alleged harassment was based on an employee’s race
and ethnicity in violation of New Jersey’s Law Against Discrimination.
Background
New Jersey’s Law Against Discrimination prohibits workplace discrimination because an employee’s protected characteristic, including the employee’s: