Jason J. Rozger
Mr. Rozger maintains an extensive employment litigation practice focusing on high value wage and hour cases, particularly class and collective actions, and also including employees terminated unlawfully, denied medical leaves and reasonable accommodations, and navigating non-compete and other employee agreements. Mr. Rozger has conducted jury trials in the Federal and State courts in New York, as well as appeals to the highest court in New York State and to the Federal appeals courts.
Mr. Rozger graduated cum laude in Economics from Drew University in 1993. He graduated from New York University School of Law in 1996, where he was an editor of the Review of Law & Social Change and earned a Public Interest Law Center grant to spend a summer working for the Texas Civil Rights Project. After clerking for the Hon. Ronald Graves of the New Jersey Superior Court (later of the Appellate Division), in September of 1997, Mr. Rozger joined Bronx Legal Services, where he was a staff attorney in the Disability and General Practice units.
Mr. Rozger joined Menken Simpson & Rozger’s predecessor firm as an associate in June of 2000, and became a partner in 2007.
Education
J.D., New York University School of Law, 1996
B.A. in Economics cum laude, Drew University, 1993
Decisions Of Note
Andryeyeva v. New York Health Care, Inc., 33 N.Y.3d 152, 124 N.E.3d 162 (2019)
Resolving issue of proper standard for sleep and meal break pay for home attendants working 24-hour shifts, and permitting class actions in such cases.
Greenawalt v. AT & T Mobility LLC, 642 F. App'x 36 (2d Cir. 2016)
Holding corporate retail store owner responsible for overtime payments owed to security guards, despite guards being hired by a third party contractor.
Ramos v. SimplexGrinnell LP, 773 F.3d 394, 395 (2d Cir. 2014)
Established that fire alarm and sprinkler inspection work was required to be paid prevailing wages in New York.
Roberts v. AIG Glob. Inv. Corp., No. 06 CIV. 5966 (GEL), 2008 WL 4444004 (S.D.N.Y. Sept. 30, 2008)
Decision allowing trial on claims that employer violated the Family and Medical Leave Act by firing employee after he requested FMLA leave.
Marriott v. Cty. of Montgomery, No. 05-1590-CV, 2005 WL 3117194 (2d Cir. Nov. 22, 2005)
Upholding injunction against county for unconstitutional jail strip search policy.
Bar Admissions and Professional Activities
Admitted in the states of New York and New Jersey, and in the federal courts of the Southern, Eastern, Northern, and Western Districts of New York, the District of New Jersey, and the Second Circuit Court of Appeals.
Member of the National Employment Lawyers’ Association and the New York City Bar Association.
Publications and Presentations
Contributing Author, American Bar Association, Section of Labor and Employment Law, 2021 FMLA Mid-Winter Report
National Employment Lawyers’ Association 2016 Convention presentation, “Representing Home Care Workers.”
National Employment Lawyers’ Association-NY, 2006 Fall Conference, “Recent Significant Cases in Employment Law.”