Image by CMElixirs from Pixabay With a big ‘ol tip of the cap to Phil Miles, Esq. over at Lawffice Space (here) and Daniel Cummins at Tort Talk (here), we’ve got some news that should interest Pennsylvania employers. For the first time, a state or federal court in Pennsylvania has decided…
Image Credit: Photofunia.com (https://photofunia.com/results/5da05f89089f7acb5a8b4590) Back in the early Summer of 2017, most of the experts — the pundits, if you will — were predicting that American businesses were not going to spend as much in 2018 on advice from employment law attorneys. Then, in September 2017, along came a guy…
Image Credit: Photofunia.com It’s called the FAIR Act, which stands for the Forced Arbitration Injustice Repeal Act. The FAIR Act would amend the Federal Arbitration Act to prohibit a pre-dispute arbitration agreement from being valid or enforceable if it requires arbitration of an employment, consumer, antitrust, or civil rights dispute.…
Image by CMElixirs from Pixabay If you’ve got workplace drug testing for marijuana all figured out, you can skip today’s post. As for the rest of you… There is a new article from Tammy Lytle in the Fall 2019 Issue of HR Magazine called “Marijuana and the Workplace: It’s Complicated.”…
Image by Andreas Breitling from Pixabay What a difference a few years make. Two years, Richard Griffin, the former General Counsel of the National Labor Relation Board (“NLRB“), stood before the U.S. Supreme Court and argued in Epic Systems v. Lewis that arbitration agreements requiring employees to forego the ability…
Image Credit: Pixabay.com This definitely caught me flat-footed. An implied duty to accommodate? I think not. Pennsylvania’s medical marijuana law specifically states that no employer must “make any accommodation of the use of medical marijuana on the property or premises of any place of employment.” But the law is silent…
Image by CMElixirs from Pixabay *Just about everything; enough to fill a 90-minute presentation that I’m giving tomorrow. Yes, I’ll be presenting “Medical Marijuana: What’s the Buzz?” in at the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission’s (EEOC) 22nd annual Examining Conflicts in Employment Laws (EXCEL) Training Conference in Atlanta, GA. EXCEL…
Neeta Lind [CC BY 2.0], via Wikimedia CommonsLast week, Governor Phil Murphy signed the Jake Honig Compassionate Use Medical Cannabis Act, which overhauls New Jersey’s Medicinal Marijuana Program (MMP) and its original Compassionate Use of Medical Marijuana Act (CUMMA). Here are five things that local employers need to know about…
By Darwinek – self-made using Image:Flag of Nevada.svg and Image:USA Nevada location map.svg, CC BY-SA 3.0, Link Alabama. Oh, wait. I meant Nevada. Details, Eric. Details! On June 5, Nevada Governor Steve Sisolak (D) signed Assembly Bill No. 132 into law, which makes it “unlawful for any employer in [Nevada]…
Image by Gerd Altmann from Pixabay More than ever, American workplaces are emphasizing diversity by targeting hires of different races, religions, ethnicities, genders, cultural and educational backgrounds, work experience, etc. This variety promotes different viewpoints, better problem-solving, a just a more dynamic workplace. Generally, this results in businesses attracting better…