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LEGAL UPDATE MAY 20, 2021 
New Jersey employers are facing a dizzying array of newly enacted laws and court decisions that challenge even the most seasoned human resource professionals. The Sussex Warren Human Resources Management Association is here to help!  On May 20, 2021, we present our annual Legal Update via Zoom. The fast-paced and interactive program will focus on a wide range of pressing issues that are currently impacting human resource professionals. 

The May 20, 2021 Legal Update will focus on the following prescient issues facing New Jersey employers and human resource professionals:

I. The Decriminalization of Marijuana and the Workplace (~45 Minutes)
On February 22, 2021, New Jersey Governor Phil Murphy signed into law the New Jersey Cannabis Regulatory, Enforcement Assistance, and Marketplace Modernization Act (“CREAMMA”). Among other things, the 240-page measure legalizes the recreational use of marijuana for adults age 21 and older and places significant restrictions on companies doing business in New Jersey related to marijuana use and the workplace. Topics addressed will include, but not be limited to, the following topics:

• Employee Protections (anti-discrimination, reasonable accommodations, off duty conduct)
• Employer Rights (drug testing and drug free workplace, safety-sensitive positions)
• “Workplace Impairment Recognition Experts”
• Unresolved Issues and the new Cannabis Regulatory Commission
• Report from the Front Lines
  
  

2.  2021 Legal and Legislative Update (~45 Minutes)
Howard Vex will first provide a review of recently enacted legislation and executive orders that affect the workplace including employee arbitration agreements, guaranteed severance pay for mass layoffs, enhanced unionization rights, the paid sick leave regulations, Covid-19 vaccine mandates and more.  Howard Vex will then provide a case law roundup of the ten most interesting cases impacting the workplace from the U.S. Supreme Court, the Third Circuit and the New Jersey Courts.  Finally, Mr. Vex will wrap up the evening’s presentation with a review of important cases scheduled before the U.S. Supreme Court and New Jersey Supreme Court for the remainder of 2021 and proposed Federal and State legislation that could significantly impact the workplace.

   Presenter Howard A. Vex, Esq. will lead the program.  Mr. Vex has been representing employers in all areas of labor and employment law for thirty years and currently serves as Senior Counsel at Vex Law, LLC, a boutique labor and employment law firm serving employers throughout New Jersey.  Mr. Vex graduated Cornell University’s School of Industrial and Labor Relations and Rutgers Law School as a Sydney Reitman Labor Law Scholar.  He worked with Jackson Lewis in Morristown earlier in his legal career and, prior to striking out on his own, led the Employment Law Department at Courter, Kobert and Cohen in Hackettstown.  Mr. Vex has been a member of our SHRM Chapter since 2005, currently serves as our Legislative Chair and has served as Chapter President.

No registration is necessary for this Zoom webinar. 

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