Image Credit: @NJGov on Twitter Well, it depends. ***ducks rotten tomatoes*** Yesterday, New Jersey Governor Phil Murphy signed three bills into law, “legalizing and regulating cannabis use and possession for adults 21 years and older (A21 – “The New Jersey Cannabis Regulatory, Enforcement Assistance, and Marketplace Modernization Act”) and decriminalizing…
Luigi Crespo from Frederick, MD, USA, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons That would make things interesting, wouldn’t it? New Jersey and Philadelphia, among others, tighten the belt. We’ve seen a spate of new state and local COVID-19 restrictions over the past week or so. Why, just yesterday, New Jersey…
Image by Erin Stone from Pixabay In a landslide victory on election day — ok, a touch of politics — New Jersey voters overwhelmingly supported legalizing recreational marijuana. But where and when can you get it? (Asking for a friend). And what does legalized recreational marijuana mean for local employers?…
Image Credit: Pxfuel.com Hot on the heels of yesterday’s blog post about mandatory face coverings for customers, New Jersey Governor Phil Murphy has signed this Executive Order designed to protect NJ businesses’ customers and employees further. (Technically, the EO preceded my blog post. But I’m not keeping score.) This press…
Image by Pexels from Pixabay On Tuesday, a prescient reader emailed me to suggest a blog topic. He wondered what the labor and employment law implications would be if a bunch of athletes refused to play a scheduled game in protest of social/racial injustice. And then, yesterday, the Milwaukee Bucks…
Image Credit EpicTop10.com (Attribution 2.0 Generic (CC By 2.0)) If, during this pandemic, you do business in a state with a robust whistleblower law, keep reading. Yesterday, over at the Coronavirus Law Blog, my friend Jon Hyman wrote here about a nurse who was fired after refusing to share gowns…
Image by Arek Socha from Pixabay If you haven’t had this conversation yet with one of your current or furloughed employees, you inevitably will. So, what do you say? Well, I can’t begin to give you the rules for all 50 states and the District of Columbia. But, I can…
Image credit: J_avant81 on Instagram NBC10 Philadelphia reports here that a corrections officer in New Jersey mocked George Floyd’s death as protesters marched past. Jason Avant, a former wide receiver for the Philadelphia Eagles, shared a video of it on Instagram (NSFW). Although there is political propaganda in the video,…
Image by Paul Brennan from Pixabay About a week ago, I blogged here about the White House’s three-step plan to reopen America. Slowly, the states are following suit by unveiling their own phased programs. Locally, the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania updated its “Process to Reopen Pennsylvania” over the weekend. And, yesterday,…
Image by Fathromi Ramdlon from Pixabay Cue the music. I’ve had to counsel many employers on layoffs and furloughs and such during this COVID-19 pandemic. Based on the number of impacted employees, that conversation can involve the federal Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification (WARN) Act. What is WARN? In a…