Employment Law Notebook

On September 9, President Biden announced that the Occupational Safety and Health Administration ("OSHA") will be requiring employers with 100 or more employees to require their employees be fully vaccinated with a COVID-19 vaccine or show a negative weekly COVID-19 test.  The move is part of the President's multi-pronged COVID-19 Action plan 

New Jersey Governor Murphy announced new COVID-19 vaccine requirements today for a large number of workers in the state.

President Biden wants the Federal Trade Commission to limit non-competes.  If this actually happens, this would be a huge relief for employees who wind up facing months or years restricted from pursuing the industry-specific job they want due to overly restrictive non-compete agreements. For now, it is unclear exactly what the FTC will do.

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On May 28, the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (“EEOC”) updated its previously issued guidance addressing COVID-19 vaccines.

New Jersey Governor Phil Murphey relaxed numerous COVID-19 restrictions in New Jersey in recent weeks due to the significant success in vaccine distribution and reduction in COVID-19 transmission and hospitalizations in the state. This changes the rules for employees and employers with regard to masks and social distancing at work as well as work from home rules.

The New Jersey Department of Health has released a new toolkit for employers aimed at encouraging employees to get the COVID-19 vaccine.  One of the components of the toolkit includes an employer agreeing to provide a location in its workplace for a popup vaccination clin

The New York Department of Labor (“NYDOL”) is poised to release mandatory health and safety standards on employers in New York state aimed at preventing exposure to airborne infectious diseases in the workplace.

Employers certainly have had a huge number of issues to deal with during the COVID-19 pandemic.  If they haven’t handled those issues well, many are now facing a new challenge: difficulty retaining employees.

New Jersey voters legalized marijuana at the ballot in November.  Now two new laws are significantly restricting what an employer can and can’t do with regard to background checks related to marijuana-related criminal history, and drug testing employees and applicants for marijuana.  The background check requirements come from a new Decriminalization statute and the drug testing restrictions co