Opinion

Employers Stay Close To This Stop, Honk, Go, Mental Illness And Gridlock Case In New Jersey

Stop. Honk. Go. Stop. Honk. Go. To be early is to be on time. To be on time is to be late. To be late is unacceptable. If employees live on the East or West Coast and in major cities in the United States, most of us have gotten used to the stop, honk, go, and gridlock that comes with the daily commute. To fight fire with fire, we watch the news when we are getting dressed for work in the morning and build in the traffic patterns and door-to-door time it will take us from home to our desk. Snow, sleet, rain or hale, during our morning drive in, we listen to traffic reports on NPR and local radio stations. Employees who have traffic down to a science, have the best Traffic Apps on our Smartphones and in our cars. Ideally, we do what we have to do to organize ourselves and ensure we are at work on time and without incident. Not in the case of Andrea DeGerolamo of Berlin, New Jersey, who was a marketing coordinator for Fulton Financial Corporation. Seeking unspecified financial damages and...