On line casino Business’s Baseless Financial Claims Can’t Justify Endangering Employees
Atlantic Metropolis, NJ —On January twenty eighth, a New Jersey Appellate Courtroom issued a ruling within the lawsuit introduced by on line casino staff and the United Auto Employees looking for to finish the smoking exemption in Atlantic Metropolis casinos.
The choice vacates the decrease court docket’s dismissal and remands the case for additional proceedings to look at the on line casino trade’s extremely contested declare that Atlantic Metropolis will endure grave financial harm if casinos can’t poison their staff and patrons with secondhand smoke. In the meantime, the court docket held that the New Jersey Supreme Courtroom was the suitable court docket to rule on the constitutionality of permitting smoking to proceed inside casinos, not like each different office in New Jersey. To that finish, CEASE and the UAW are ready to take their combat to the state’s highest court docket.
“We’re taking this to the New Jersey Supreme Courtroom as a result of no job ought to include a well being warning,” stated Nancy Erika Smith, Esq., of Montclair’s Smith Mullin, representing On line casino Staff In opposition to Smoking Results (CEASE) and the UAW. “Article 1, Paragraph 1 of the New Jersey Structure plainly states that every one individuals ‘have sure pure and unalienable rights,’ together with ‘pursuing and acquiring security and happiness.’ By exempting on line casino staff from the Smoke Free Air Act, the New Jersey legislature has clearly violated this proper. The Structure additionally prohibits “particular favors” for companies. Exempting on line casino staff from the NJ Smoke Free Air Act is nothing however a particular favor for the tobacco and on line casino industries.
“For years, the on line casino trade has hidden behind paid-for ‘research’ to justify poisoning its workers. A listening to in court docket will lastly expose these financial arguments for what they’re: baseless myths designed to scare legislators and delay justice. Our well being isn’t a worth we must always need to pay for the on line casino trade’s alleged income. The legislation is meant to guard everybody equally, and it shouldn’t permit an exception that lets casinos poison their staff to protect an outdated and exploitative enterprise mannequin,” stated Nicole Vitola, a co-founder of CEASE and a longtime desk video games vendor in Atlantic Metropolis.
“We have now a brand new Governor, who has stated she is going to make staff’ well being and security a precedence in her administration. She may take a primary step in the direction of this purpose by instructing her Lawyer Common to cease defending this loophole in court docket and eventually defend the well being and security of 6,000 on line casino staff as a substitute of the trade’s greed,” Vitola stated. “CEASE calls on Governor Sherrill, appearing Lawyer Common Jennifer Davenport, and appearing Well being Commissioner Dr. Raynard E. Washington to assist put an finish to this injustice as soon as and for all.”
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On line casino Staff In opposition to Smoking (Dangerous) Results (CEASE) is a gaggle of 1000’s of on line casino sellers and different frontline gaming staff that fashioned after indoor smoking returned on July 4, 2021 in Atlantic Metropolis, NJ and has expanded to states across the nation. CEASE is combating to completely take away smoking from our workplaces.
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