{"id":3751,"date":"2018-12-17T13:07:37","date_gmt":"2018-12-17T18:07:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lindabury.com\/firm\/?p=3751"},"modified":"2019-12-23T17:00:42","modified_gmt":"2019-12-23T22:00:42","slug":"recreational-marijuana-bill-stalls-but-employers-should-nevertheless-brace-for-its-passage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lindabury.com\/firm\/insights\/recreational-marijuana-bill-stalls-but-employers-should-nevertheless-brace-for-its-passage.html","title":{"rendered":"Recreational Marijuana Bill Stalls, But Employers Should Nevertheless Brace For  Its Passage"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">On November 26, 2018 a Joint Committee of New Jersey lawmakers advanced a bill that would legalize recreational marijuana use in the state. Although the bill had widespread support, including from Gov. Murphy, disagreements among Senate Democrats over the percentage of state taxes on marijuana stymied the vote on the bill that was expected in mid-December. Predictions that the bill will be re-introduced and voted upon early this year may be overly optimistic given other pressing issues pending in Trenton. If the bill is ultimately passed, New Jersey will join 10 other states that have legalized recreational marijuana.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">When reintroduced, it is not expected that there will be any changes to the bill\u2019s provisions addressing marijuana in the workplace. A single paragraph of the prior version of the sweeping legislation specifically addresses recreational use and the workplace, and simply provides that nothing in the bill requires an employer<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>to require an employer to permit or accommodate the use, consumption, possession, transfer, display, transportation, sale, or growing of marijuana items in the workplace or to affect the ability of employers to have policies prohibiting marijuana <em>use <\/em>or<em> intoxication<\/em> by employees during work hours. No employer shall refuse to hire or employ any person or shall discharge from employment or take any adverse action against any employee with respect to compensation, terms, conditions, or other privileges of employment because that person does or does not smoke or use marijuana items, unless the employer has a rational basis for doing so which is reasonably related to the employment, including the responsibilities of the employee or prospective employee.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<div class=\"read_more_link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.lindabury.com\/firm\/insights\/recreational-marijuana-bill-stalls-but-employers-should-nevertheless-brace-for-its-passage.html\"  title=\"Continue Reading Recreational Marijuana Bill Stalls, But Employers Should Nevertheless Brace For  Its Passage\" class=\"more-link\">Continue Reading \u203a<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On November 26, 2018 a Joint Committee of New Jersey lawmakers advanced a bill that would legalize recreational marijuana use in the state. 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