A brand new worker courtroom advocate place has been created by New Jersey Transit to help operational workers who’re victims of on-the-job assaults, which helps the New Jersey state legislature’s added protections for frontline transportation employees to the state legal assault statute.
Michael Rubin, who comes with 15 years of expertise working with the New Jersey Division of Regulation and Public Safety, would be the first legal professional to fill the place. Rubin will assist workers who’re victims of assault navigate the legal justice system for free of charge to the worker, and work with prosecutors to see that assailants face the complete sentences allowable by legislation.
“The creation of the Worker Courtroom Advocate place confirms NJ Transit’s unwavering dedication to making sure the protection and well-being of our workers,” stated NJ Transit President and CEO Kevin Corbett. “I’m assured Michael Rubin will make an actual distinction within the lives of our frontline workers who’re pressured to navigate an unfamiliar authorized system and be certain that assailants are prosecuted to the fullest extent of the legislation.”
“The ATU has labored in partnership with NJ Transit to see that each step is taken not solely to guard our transit employees, however to supply full help ought to an assault occurs,” stated Ray Greaves, NJ Transit board member and chairman of the New Jersey State Council of the Amalgamated Transit Union (ATU). “Now, with the addition of Mike Rubin as NJ Transit Courtroom Advocate, we will be sure that no transit employee can be made to really feel alone.”
In June, a person who assaulted a pregnant bus operator in January was given an eight-year jail sentence for his actions. The New Jersey legislature amended the state’s legal assault statute to impose bigger financial penalties and elevated custodial sentences for these convicted of assaulting NJ Transit’s operational workers.
Rubin’s position contains assembly with NJ Transit workers who’ve been assaulted to evaluation their instances and serving to them perceive their authorized rights. When an worker is required to seem in courtroom, Rubin will accompany them to courtroom to make sure that their rights are protected, and prosecutors pursue applicable costs and sentencing.
Beforehand, Rubin served as a Deputy Legal professional Normal in New Jersey’s Division of Regulation & Public Safety, most lately representing NJ Transit in quite a lot of areas of legislation. He’s a school member of the Nationwide Legal professional Normal Coaching & Assets Institute, offering coaching in civil apply and trial advocacy to authorities legal professionals and teaches a graduate course in Regulation, Ethics and the Enterprise Surroundings at Strayer College in Basking Ridge, New Jersey.
