New Jersey job bias law doesn’t provide a path for a blackjack-poker dealer at Atlantic City’s Hard Rock Hotel and Casino to sue a coworker for alleged racist comments, a federal judge ruled.
The Third Circuit predicted in 2000 that the state’s top court would hold nonsupervisory employees can’t be liable for aiding or abetting harassment under New Jersey’s Law Against Discrimination based on their own affirmative acts, the US District Court for the District of New Jersey said Thursday. Federal judges in the district since 2000 have “routinely” interpreted the NJLAD “to require that coworkers possess supervisory authority to ...
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