By: Cristina N. Hyde, JD Campanella Law Office is proud to announce that Gina L. Campanella, Esq., FACHE was installed today as a member of the Wyckoff-Midland Park Rotary Club. The first chapter of Rotary Club was established in 1905 with the intention to create an environment where professionals with diverse backgrounds could exchange ideas…
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Good News for New Jersey Home Bakers: Cottage food operator regulations take effect just in time for the holiday season
By: Cristina N. Hyde, JD Two weeks ago, on October 4, 2021, New Jersey home bakers celebrated as the new rules creating a cottage food operator permit went into effect. An attempt to reconcile the right to run a business out of one’s home with important food and safety precautions, the rules establish a regulatory…
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Assembly Bill No. 4205: New Jersey enters into the Psychology Interjurisdictional Compact
By: Cristina N. Hyde, JD On Friday, September 24, 2021, Governor Murphy approved Assembly Bill No. 4205, making New Jersey the 16th state to enter into the Psychology Interjurisdictional Compact. The Compact provides an avenue for psychological services to be offered across state borders. Designed to facilitate the practice of telepsychology and the in-person, face-to-face…
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President Biden’s national strategy to “vaccinate the unvaccinated” includes new vaccination requirements for health care workers
By: Cristina N. Hyde, JD Last week, Campanella Law Office addressed President Biden’s intention to use regulatory powers to increase the number of American’s subject to vaccine requirements as it related to businesses. However, the President’s six-pronged, comprehensive national strategy to battle COVID-19, also implicates more than 17 million heath care workers throughout the country. In…
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President Biden Announces New Vaccine Mandate for Businesses: OSHA is asked to use “Emergency Temporary Standard” authority to expedite process
By: Cristina N. Hyde, JD Earlier this month, President Biden announced that the Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) must promulgate a rule mandating all employers with 100 or more employees to either require workers to get a COVID-19 vaccine or produce a weekly negative test result before reporting to work. This…
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Telehealth and Telemedicine Reminder: Registration Applications are due by October 15, 2021
By: Cristina N. Hyde, JD On July 13, 2021, the New Jersey Department of Health (DOH) adopted new regulations that require all telemedicine and telehealth organizations providing services in New Jersey to submit a registration application before October 15, 2021. The newly codified Registration Standards for Telemedicine and Telehealth Organizations (N.J.A.C. 8:53) implement certain provisions of…
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Courtroom Cue: New Jersey Supreme Court rules that employer could be liable for two racial slurs
By: Cristina N. Hyde, JD Reminding New Jersey business owners of the importance of anti-discrimination training and written anti-discrimination policies, the New Jersey Supreme Court recently determined that an employer could be held liable for the utterance of two racially offensive comments by a supervisor. Rios v. Meda Pharm., Inc., ___ N.J. ___ (2021) In…
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Home-based bakers rise to the challenge: New Jersey prohibition on selling homemade food will end soon
By: Cristina N. Hyde, JD In a long overdue step to align New Jersey with the rest of the nation, the Department of Health (DOH) recently adopted new rules allowing the sale of certain homemade foods for profit. Expected to take effect this fall, the new rules will create a cottage law establishing a regulatory scheme…
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Assembly Bill No. 4250: Governor Murphy Signs Permanent Remote Online Notarization Law
By: Cristina N. Hyde, JD On July 22, 2021, New Jersey became the 35th state to enact a permanent remote online notarization (RON) law. The New Jersey Law on Notarial Acts (Act) revises existing law concerning the qualification and duties of notaries and permanently authorizes electronic signatures as well as various notarial acts performed by remotely…
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Efforts to Stop Worker Misclassification Continue With New Legislation
By: Cristina N. Hyde, JD On July 8, 2021, Governor Murphy reminded New Jersey residents of his commitment to address worker misclassification. By signing a four-bill legislative package he approved several administrative safeguards intended to make it more difficult to improperly classify employees as independent contractors. Through this new legislation, the Department of Labor can…