Practice Areas

Jennifer Meyer-Mahoney focuses on helping and advising businesses with a full range of issues and matters related to labor and employment practices. From contract negotiation, to human resource compliance basics, to dealing with difficult employee situations, Jennifer can walk a business through the process in order to limit liability, provide peace of mind, and let business owners spend less time on employee issues.

Our most common services fall into the areas of agreements, human resources compliance, and litigation:

Agreements

Independent contractor agreements
Employment contracts
Non-competes
Non-solicits
Confidentiality/non-disclosure agreements
Severance agreements

Human Resources Compliance

Employee classification
Policies and Procedures
Employee Handbooks and Supervisory Manuals
Reasonable Accommodation Process
Employee leaves
Difficult employees or situations

Litigation

Federal Court

Discrimination cases
Harassment cases
Wage and hour cases

State Court

Enforcement of non-competes
New Jersey Law Against Discrimination
Whistleblower
Retaliation
Wage and hour
Contract enforcement

Department of Labor

Wage and Hour
Unemployment Audits

EEOC/NJ Division on Civil Rights claims

Public Sector

As a former Director of Employee Relations, Human Resources Manager, and Ethics Liaison Officer with the State of New Jersey, Jennifer is familiar with all aspects of public employment from open competitive examinations to termination appeals and the collective bargaining process.

She now represents public employees, their unions, and municipalities in the following matters:

Testing appeals to the Civil Service Commission
Disciplinary Appeals
Disciplinary Arbitration
Ethics Investigations and Hearings
Findings of No Probable Cause by the Civil Service Commission
Division on Civil Rights proceedings
Unfair Labor Practices
Grievance Arbitration
Contract Negotiations
Layoff Appeals (both Title Rights and Good Faith)

She also handles any appellate work stemming from a final agency decision by Civil Service Commission, Public Employment Relations Commission (PERC) or the State Ethics Commission.

She assists municipalities with human resources compliance, creating or realigning civil service titles, designing and drafting civil service layoff plans, processing involuntary disability retirement applications, advises on difficult employment issues, provides independent hearing officers and investigators for particularly high profile incidents, and mediates workplace disputes to resolve them before formal action must be taken.