Case: Individual Employment Rights/Wrongful Discharge (D.N.J.)

A First Transit Inc. bus driver who worked at Rutgers University may proceed with his wrongful discharge claim alleging that the company refused to assign him shifts and constructively discharged him in violation of public policy because of his repeated complaints about safety issues with the company buses, a federal court in New Jersey ruled. The court rejected the company’s argument that his lawsuit was untimely because his cause of action accrued on the last day that he received a paycheck and he filed suit more than two years after that date. Between the date that he was last paid ...