1. 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 other tobacco products, 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.
N.J. Stat. Ann. § 34:6B-1
Smoking, use of tobacco products shall not affect employment
Known as the The Opportunity to Compete Act
The act spans §§ 34:6B-1 to 34:6B-9 (23 sections).
L.1991,c.207,s.1.
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