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Marijuana Use Laws Budding In Virginia On July 1, 2021

July 1, 2021 | Jackson Lewis Filed Under: General (VA)

Jackson Lewis

Consistent with legislative trends, Virginia weighed in further on the nationwide marijuana debate by enacting two new comprehensive cannabis-related laws. The first prohibits discipline for employee’s medical use of cannabis oil. The second is an omnibus bill permitting all individuals over the age of 21 to lawfully possess recreational marijuana. All provisions

Marijuana Use Laws Budding in Virginia

June 29, 2021 | Jackson Lewis Filed Under: General (VA)

Jackson Lewis

Consistent with legislative trends, Virginia weighed in further on the nationwide marijuana debate by enacting two new comprehensive cannabis-related laws.

Virginia Employers Soon Must Adopt, Provide Accommodation Policies to Employees With Disabilities

June 23, 2021 | Jackson Lewis Filed Under: General (VA)

Jackson Lewis

Starting on July 1, 2021, most Virginia employers must include information in their employee handbooks about reasonable accommodations for persons with disabilities and provide that information directly to any employee within 10 days after receiving notice that the employee has a disability.

Virginia Overtime Wage Act: How Employers Can Prepare for the July 1 Effective Date

June 1, 2021 | Ogletree Deakins Filed Under: General (VA)

The Virginia Overtime Wage Act (VOWA), Va. Code § 40.1-29.2, becomes effective July 1, 2021, and will significantly alter employers’ wage and hour obligations in Virginia. At first glance, the VOWA appears to track federal law under the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA). Upon closer examination, however, this new law

Virginia’s Recreational Marijuana Legislation and New Employee Medicinal Use Protections

May 25, 2021 | Ogletree Deakins Filed Under: General (VA)

On April 21, 2021, Virginia Governor Ralph Northam signed into law House Bill No. 2312 and Senate Bill No. 1406, moving the date of recreational marijuana legalization in Virginia up to July 1, 2021. The legalization movement, which has increased in momentum in the Commonwealth since Democrats gained a majority

Virginia Enacts New Overtime Wage Law

May 24, 2021 | Ford Harrison Filed Under: General (VA)

On March 30, 2021, Governor Ralph Northam signed into law the Virginia Overtime Wage Act (VOWA), creating new wage and hour requirements for Virginia employers. Set to take effect July 1, 2021, the VOWA also includes numerous employee protections. The VOWA amends the Virginia Code to authorize collective actions and allows for a lengthier statute of limitations period and increased damages provisions.

Virginia’s new overtime law authorizes collective actions

April 13, 2021 | Jackson Lewis Filed Under: General (VA)

Jackson Lewis

Virginia employers are at increased risk of class action wage litigation following passage of the Virginia Overtime Wage Act.

“Previously, Virginia had been content to rely on the overtime pay requirements of the federal Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA),” note Kristina H. Vaquera and Shaun M. Bennett in a

Virginia Paid Sick Leave for Home Health Workers

April 12, 2021 | Jackson Lewis Filed Under: General (VA)

Jackson Lewis

Effective July 1, 2021, Virginia joins the District of Columbia and many other states with paid leave for designated workers (Virginia’s Paid Sick Leave Law), home health workers in this case. Paid sick leave is compensated at the same hourly rate and with the same benefits, including healthcare benefits, as an employee normally earns during hours worked.

Virginia Supreme Court Clarifies Defamation Claims in Employment Context Need Defamatory ‘Sting’

April 12, 2021 | Jackson Lewis Filed Under: General (VA)

Jackson Lewis

Statements made in a disciplinary action form that did not hold the requisite defamatory “sting” to the reputation of the plaintiff cannot support a defamation claim, and statements made during proceedings before the Virginia Employment Commission (VEC) are protected by absolute privilege and cannot form the basis of a defamation claim, the Supreme Court of Virginia has held.

Virginia Expands Disability Discrimination Protections and Adds Domestic Worker Protections

April 12, 2021 | Jackson Lewis Filed Under: General (VA)

Jackson Lewis

Effective July 1, 2021, Virginia further expands the scope of the Virginia Human Rights Act (VHRA) to prohibit discrimination on the basis of disability. The state also enacted protections and benefits for domestic workers.

Virginia Enacts New Paid Sick Leave Law for Home Health Workers

April 9, 2021 | Littler Filed Under: General (VA)

Littler

Given the current political trifecta (where democrats control both houses of the state legislature and the governorship), paid sick leave proponents had high hopes that Virginia would follow other states’ lead and pass legislation to mandate employers provide paid leave, particularly in light of the continuing COVID-19 pandemic.  On

Virginia Enacts Overtime Wage Law

April 7, 2021 | Jackson Lewis Filed Under: General (VA)

Jackson Lewis

Beginning July 1, 2021, Virginia employers will be subject to new state overtime pay requirements. Virginia Governor Ralph Northam signed into law the Virginia Overtime Wage Act on March 31, 2021. Previously, Virginia had been content to rely on the overtime pay requirements of the federal Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA).

Comprehensive Data Privacy Law Brings Big Changes to Virginia, but Excludes Employee Personal Data

April 7, 2021 | Ogletree Deakins Filed Under: General (VA)

Virginia has joined California as the second state to enact a comprehensive data privacy law. On March 2, 2021, Virginia Governor Ralph Northam signed the Virginia Consumer Data Protection Act (VCDPA) into law. The VCDPA does not go into effect until January 1, 2023, but the broad privacy mandate will

Virginia Continues Pro-Employee Push with New Overtime Wage Act

April 2, 2021 | Littler Filed Under: General (VA)

Littler

Historically, Virginia has not had a standalone overtime law, instead relying on the federal Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) to provide protections to employees who work more than 40 hours a week.  But that will change on July 1, 2021.  Continuing a pattern of legislative action that is quickly

West Virginia Enacts COVID-19 Jobs Protection Act

April 1, 2021 | Littler Filed Under: General (VA)

Littler

On March 19, 2021, Governor Jim Justice signed legislation enacting a coronavirus liability shield law.  Senate Bill 277, the COVID-19 Jobs Protection Act (“the Act”), is effective retroactively from January 1, 2020 and applies to any cause of action accruing on or after that date.  The Act’s stated purpose

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