Our colleague NJ Supreme Court Rules That the LAD Protects Registered Medical Cannabis Users.
Following is an excerpt:
On March 10, 2020 the
NJ Supreme Court: LAD Protects Registered Medical Cannabis Users
New Jersey’s Highest Court to Decide Whether Employers Are Required to Accommodate Medical Marijuana Use
On July 16, 2019, the New Jersey Supreme Court (“Court”) granted certification to review the Appellate Division’s decision in Wild v. Carriage Funeral Holdings, which ruled that the New Jersey Law Against Discrimination’s (“LAD”) requirement that employers reasonably accommodate disabilities applied to an employee’s use of medical cannabis legally prescribed pursuant to New Jersey’s
Sleeping on the Job Disqualifies Residential Counselor from Unemployment
In an unpublished decision issued July 22, 2016, the New Jersey Appellate Division ruled that an overnight residential counselor for developmentally disabled adults was properly disqualified from unemployment because of “severe misconduct” after having been found sleeping on the job. In affirming the Division of Unemployment’s denial of benefits,
New Jersey to Propose Gender-Equality Notice Rules for Employers
by: Maxine H. Neuhauser and Amy E. Hatcher
On January 7, 2013, the New Jersey Department of Labor and Workforce Development (the “Department”) published in the New Jersey Register proposed new rules and notification language to implement a recently enacted law intended to fight gender inequity and bias in the workplace. The notice of proposal