SWAG meeting: If you hire babysitters, caregivers, cleaning persons, etc. this new law affects you.

Posted June 10, 2024

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Date(s) - 06/10/2024
12:30 pm - 2:00 pm

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SWAG Meeting

Please join us for a very important SWAG meeting. If you hire babysitters, caregivers, cleaning persons, etc. this new law affects you.

Ellen Walsh will provide an overview of new state legislation which provides protections for individuals who qualify as domestic workers. As many of us hire individuals to perform various types of work in our private residence, an examination of the legislation is necessary to determine if changes are required in our working relationships with those individuals. Who qualifies as a domestic worker and what exactly are the protections required by this legislation?

Ellen Walsh works with Sheila O’Shea Criscione in employment matters. She has also dealt with matters involving the Conscientious Employee Protection Act, both the Federal Family and Medical Leave Act and the New Jersey Family Leave Act, the Americans with Disabilities Act and the Law Against Discrimination. On the employer side, Ms. Walsh has experience drafting and revising Employee Handbooks, as well as representing employers who have received citations from OSHA.

Please RSVP to Linda F Spiegel if you plan to attend.
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Linda F. Spiegel

Linda graduated from Boston University School of Law. She has worked for a legal publishing company in their tax publications department, she was an associate for a for a law firm in Newark and another firm in Wood Ridge where she became a partner. She subsequently opened her own firm in Hackensack where she continues to practice today. Linda has mediated and arbitrated over 1000 cases in construction, consumer, commercial, contract and family law. She is an arbitrator and mediator for the AAA, a FINRA arbitrator, a NJ Court Approved R.1:40 mediator and arbitrator, an Elder Care Planning and divorce mediator. Her article entitled "Elder Care Planning Mediation" was published in the ABA's "Voice of Experience," January 2023, and reprinted in "GPSolo eReport," Vol. 12, No. 10, May 2023. She is the Co-Vice Chair of the ABA Senior Lawyers Division ADR Committee, serves on the board of the NJ Association of Professional Mediators and the Executive Committee of the Justice Marie L. Garibaldi Inn of Court for ADR.