Susan L. Swatski
PartnerPrinceton, NJ
Susan L. Swatski is a partner in the Princeton, N.J. office of Hill Wallack LLP. Ms. Swatski is the head of the Plaintiff’s Employment Law Department, overseeing all litigation and strategy related to employee workplace rights and employee advocacy. She is a member of the firm's Employment and Labor Law Department, which services all of the Firm's other Departments and Practice Groups.
Ms. Swatski focuses on litigating federal and state employment matters including claims involving allegations of discrimination, whistleblowing, harassment, retaliation, misappropriation of trade secrets and restrictive covenants and wage and hour violations, including class and collective actions, equal pay, family leave, and pregnancy discrimination. Ms. Swatski has successfully litigated in state and federal courts, as well as, before various state and federal agencies including the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, the United States Department of Labor, the United States Department of Justice, the New Jersey Division on Civil Rights, the New York Division of Human Rights, New York City Commission on Human Rights and the Occupational Safety and Health Administration.
Ms. Swatski also assists companies with establishing reporting mechanisms, equal pay audits and internal investigations.
Ms. Swatski is admitted to practice in the states of New Jersey (2002), New York (2003), the United States Supreme Court (2017), United States Second Circuit Court of Appeals (2004), United States Third Circuit Court of Appeals (2005), and in the United States District Court of New Jersey (2002), the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York (2003), and the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of New York (2003), and the United States District Court for the Western Districts of New York (2003).
Prior to joining Hill Wallack LLP, Ms. Swatski served as Deputy Press Secretary to United States Senator Arlen Specter and was the Manager of Government Affairs for the Shipbuilders Council of America. She received her J.D. from Seton Hall School of Law and her B.A. from Susquehanna University.
Presentations & Publications- Client Alert: Eeoc Publishes Final Guidance on Harassment, May 23, 2024
- Client Alert: Best Practices For Employers Using AI to Make Employment Decisions, April 30, 2024
- Client Alert: FTC Bans Most New Post Employment Noncompete Agreements, April 25, 2024
- Client Alert: DOL Raises the Minimum Salary for Over Time Eligibility, April 25, 2024
- Client Alert: Private Businesses With At Least 100 Employees Must Soon Mandate Vaccination Or Weekly Testing, September 22, 2021
- Client Alert: Key Issues Related To The Cobra Subsidy, May 4, 2021
- Presenter: Wage and Hour Compliance In The Time of COVID-19, New Jersey League of Municipalities, November 2020
- Client Alert: COVID-19 Workplace Safety Training, October 6, 2020
- Client Alert: Are Employers Required to Pay for COVID-19 Testing?, October 1, 2020
- Client Alert: ICE Extends Remote I-9 Verification For 60 Days, September 30, 2020
- Client Alert: COVID-19 Commonly Asked Questions by Employers, September 29, 2020
- Client Alert: Notice to Employees of Temporary Social Security Tax Deferral, September 10, 2020
- Client Alert: Tips To Help Businesses Prepare To Re-Open, May 4, 2020
- Client Alert: The Coronavirus Aid, Response, and Economic Security Act "CARES Act", March 30, 2020
- Client Alert: COVID-19 Employment Concerns For Community Associations, March 27, 2020
- Client Alert: DOL Guidance for the FFCRA, March 27, 2020
- Presenter, Trends in Employment Law, New Jersey Recreation & Parks Association, February 2020
- Client Alert: The New Jersey Assembly and Governor Murphy Reached A Deal To Pass Adult Recreational Use Marijuana Legislation Later This Month, March 2019
- Client Alert: New Jersey's Expansion of Family Leave Entitlements, February 26, 2019
- Co-presenter, Leadership Strategies to Address Harrasment & Discrimination, Cobblestone Creek Country Club, June 2018
- Author, New Jersey Enacts Paid Sick Leave Act Effective October 29, 2018, May 2018
Leadership- National Employment Lawyers Association (NELA) Member, 2025 - Present
- New Jersey Chapter of the International Employment Lawyers Association
- Princeton Mercer Regional Chamber of Commerce
- Board of Trustees, 2025 - Present
- Chair, Women in Business Alliance, 2022 - Present
- SERV Behavioral Health Centers, Board of Trustees, 2022 - Present
- New Jersey Supreme Court District Ethics Committee, 2017 - 2019
- MIDJersey Chamber of Commerce – Chair, Women in Business Committee, 2016 - 2019
- Society of Human Resource Management (SHRM), 2015 - Present
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- United States District Court Partially Blocks the FTCs Attempt To Ban Employment Noncompete AgreementsJuly 10, 2024
- EEOC Publishes Final Guidance on HarassmentMay 23, 2024
- Best Practices For Employers Using AI to Make Employment DecisionsApril 30, 2024
- DOL Raises the Minimum Salary for Over Time EligibilityApril 25, 2024
- FTC Bans Post Employment Non-Compete AgreementsApril 25, 2024
- News Release: Hill Wallack Employment Law Attorney Susan L. Swatski Appointed to the SERV Centers Board of DirectorsJuly 15, 2020
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In Re ex. Rel. J. Michael Hayes v. Allstate Ins. Co., et al., Docket No. 16-705 (2d Cir. Ct. App. 2017)
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In Re ex. Rel. J. Michael Hayes v. Allstate Ins. Co., et al., Docket No. 12-CV-1015S (WDNY 2016)
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Waste Management of New Jersey, Inc. v. Morris County Mun. Utilities Authority, 433 N.J.Super. 445 (App. Div. 2013)
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In Re ex. Rel. J. Michael Hayes v. Allstate Ins. Co., et al., Docket No. 16-705 (2d Cir. Ct. App. 2017)
