On January 12, 2026, New Jersey Governor Phil Murphy signed Assembly Bill 4182 amending key sections of the New Jersey Employer-Employee Relations Act (NJEERA).
On January 12, 2026, New Jersey Governor Phil Murphy signedAssembly Bill 4182amending key sections of the New Jersey Employer-Employee Relations Act (NJEERA). Originally enacted in 1968, NJEERA governs labor relations in the state's public sector and established the Public Employment Relations Commission (PERC) to oversee collective bargaining and dispute resolution for public employees.
This new legislation, which contains multiple pages of additional text, (1) implements a significant shift for cannabis employers, imposing labor law obligations that previously did not apply to their workforce and (2) imposes some burdens on other private sector employers whose employees are not covered by the National Labor Relations Act. Until now, many cannabis workers—particularly those employed by licensed cultivators—were excluded from protections against unfair labor practices under federal and state law given that they were exempted from the National Labor Relations Act (NLRA). Assembly Bill 4182 closes that gap by expanding the authority of the New Jersey State Board of Mediation (NJSBM) within the Department of Labor and Workforce Development to oversee cannabis employment not regulated by the NLRA.
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