NEWARK, N.J. (Legal Newsline) – A former makeup artist at the MLB Network is accusing the channel of violating New Jersey law.
The suit, filed in Jan. 5 in Newark federal court, is filed under the state’s Employee Protection Act and Earned Sick Leave Act by Meredith Greene, who claims she was not paid for earned sick leave because she didn’t live in New Jersey.
Though she commuted to the network’s Secaucus headquarters from Florida on her own dime, she says she was entitled to those benefits because she worked in New Jersey.
After she objected, she was fired for living too far from the network.
new regulations implementing the New Jersey ESLL, which requires employers to provide up to 40 hours of paid sick leave per benefit year for an employee’s or their family member’s mental or physical illness, and other various reasons (see our previous
new law and regulations prohibiting employers from taking any adverse employment action against employees who, during the COVID-19-related Public Health Emergency and State of Emergency declared by Governor Phil Murphy, take or request time off due to an infectious disease that could affect others at work based on a written recommendation of a New Jersey licensed medical professional (see our previous blog posts here and here);