{"id":3391,"date":"2018-04-27T16:24:21","date_gmt":"2018-04-27T20:24:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lindabury.com\/firm\/?p=3391"},"modified":"2025-02-05T11:13:07","modified_gmt":"2025-02-05T16:13:07","slug":"in-a-novel-ruling-new-jersey-appellate-court-hints-that-telecommuters-working-outside-the-state-for-a-new-jersey-employer-may-be-entitled-to-the-protections-of-the-njlad","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lindabury.com\/firm\/insights\/in-a-novel-ruling-new-jersey-appellate-court-hints-that-telecommuters-working-outside-the-state-for-a-new-jersey-employer-may-be-entitled-to-the-protections-of-the-njlad.html","title":{"rendered":"In A Novel Ruling, New Jersey Appellate Court Hints That Telecommuters Working Outside The State For A New Jersey Employer May Be Entitled To The Protections Of The NJLAD"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In its recent decision in <em>Trevejo v. Legal Cost Control, Inc.<\/em>, the Appellate Division signaled that the anti-discrimination protections of the New Jersey Law Against Discrimination (NJLAD) may be applied extraterritorially to employees who are not inhabitants of New Jersey, who do not come into the State to perform any services, but who provide services to a New Jersey employer exclusively via a remote computer.<\/p>\n<p>Susan Trevejo worked for Legal Cost Control, a New Jersey corporation located in Haddonfield, NJ. Trevejo was not a resident of New Jersey, and during her tenure with Legal Cost performed all of her job duties from her home computer in Massachusetts. Following her termination, Travejo filed an age discrimination claim against Legal Cost under NJLAD, and the company responded with a motion for summary judgment on the ground that Travejo was not an \u201cinhabitant\u201d of the State entitled to pursue an NJLAD claim.<\/p>\n<p>Reversing the lower court\u2019s grant of summary judgment, the appellate court found the dismissal of the claim premature. The court noted that the statutory language of the NJLAD consistently extends to \u201cany person.\u201d Conversely, the term \u201cinhabitants\u201d only appeared in the legislative preamble, not the substantive provisions of the statue; thus, limiting the NJLAD\u2019s protections to \u201cinhabitants\u201d of the State would be an overly restrictive reading of a statute that must be broadly construed to achieve its goal of \u201cthe eradication of the cancer of discrimination in the workplace.\u201d<\/p>\n<div class=\"read_more_link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.lindabury.com\/firm\/insights\/in-a-novel-ruling-new-jersey-appellate-court-hints-that-telecommuters-working-outside-the-state-for-a-new-jersey-employer-may-be-entitled-to-the-protections-of-the-njlad.html\"  title=\"Continue Reading In A Novel Ruling, New Jersey Appellate Court Hints That Telecommuters Working Outside The State For A New Jersey Employer May Be Entitled To The Protections Of The NJLAD\" class=\"more-link\">Continue Reading \u203a<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In its recent decision in Trevejo v. Legal Cost Control, Inc., the Appellate Division signaled that the anti-discrimination protections of the New Jersey Law Against Discrimination (NJLAD) may be applied extraterritorially to employees who are not inhabitants of New Jersey, who do not come into the State to perform any services, but who provide services [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[65,247],"tags":[],"coauthors":[139],"class_list":["post-3391","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-insights","category-labor-employment-insights"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v25.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>In A Novel Ruling, New Jersey Appellate Court Hints That Telecommuters Working Outside The State For A New Jersey Employer May Be Entitled To The Protections Of The NJLAD &#8212; April 27, 2018 &#8212; Lindabury, McCormick, Estabrook &amp; Cooper, P.C. 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