ATTENTION NEW JERSEY EMPLOYERS: COMMISSION ISSUES ADDITIONAL CANNABIS GUIDANCE BUT LEAVE EMPLOYERS HANGING ON A “WIRE”
On September 9, 2022, the NJ Cannabis Regulatory Commission (“NJ-CRC”) finally issued its guidance on “Workplace Impairment” (the “Guidance”). The full text of the Guidance can be found HERE. The Guidance has been highly anticipated by employers since the February 2021 passage of the Cannabis Regulatory, Enforcement Assistance and Marketplace Modernization Act (“CREAMMA”), which legalized […]
EMPLOYERS BEWARE: NEW JERSEY SUPREME COURT ISSUES A SIGNIFICANT RULING HOLDING THAT EMPLOYEES WERE MISCLASSIFIED AS INDEPENDENT CONTRACTORS
In a decision that should give all employers pause about how they are classifying workers, the New Jersey Supreme Court recently ruled that certain workers hired by a residential drywall installation business on a per-job basis should have been employees rather than independent contractors. In East Bay Drywall, LLC v. Dept. of Labor and Workforce […]
ATTENTION ALL EMPLOYERS: OSHA Issues Federal Rule Requiring COVID-19 Vaccinations
[UPDATE: After the below eAlert went to press, the Judicial Panel on Multidistrict Litigation selected the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals to preside over the consolidated challenges to the OSHA ETS.] On November 12, 2021, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit granted a motion to stay OSHA’s COVID-19 Vaccination and Testing Emergency […]