Paula Alexander , et. al. v. Seton Hall University (A-87-09) 11/23/2010
The payment of unequal wages on the discriminatory basis of age or sex is proscribed by New Jersey’s Law Against Discrimination (LAD), and each payment of such discriminatory wages constitutes an actionable wrong that is remediable under the LAD. The two-year statute of limitations applies to such violations by merely cutting off the untimely portion of such claims, thereby limiting the damages recoverable for past discriminatory compensation. As a result, plaintiffs’ complaint was timely in respect of the allegedly discriminatory wages they received during the two years immediately prior to the filing of their complaint.
