Rutgers University GC Jonathan Alger has built a reputation as a legal expert on affirmative action and an ardent champion of diversity. He also has a long-standing interest in employment law. As Alger recently told in-house lawyers at a seminar, their companies’ new employees may request accommodations on a smorgasbord of issues: mental conditions, religious beliefs, sexual orientation and emotional well-being. “These are the claims that are coming your way,” he warned, “if they haven’t already.”
Rutgers GC Sounds the Call for Diversity
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