Religious Discrimination Law Summaries
Religious Discrimination Law Summaries
New Jersey, Religious Discrimination Law Summaries
New Jersey's main statutory provisions dealing with religious discrimination in employment are located in the New Jersey Law Against Discrimination (New Jersey Statutes, Title 10, Chapter 5), which is summarized at ¶31-2500 . There are also statutory provisions exempting from the state's cord blood donation law certain hospital workers who believe that blood transfer is contrary to the moral principles which their denomination considers to be an essential part of its beliefs and practices (New Jersey Statutes, Title 26).
WHAT THE EMPLOYER MUST DO
General licensed hospitals shall, upon admission, advise every patient of the hospital who is known to be pregnant of the option to donate, to a public umbilical cord blood bank affiliated with the National Marrow Donor Program or to a private umbilical cord blood bank, blood extracted from the umbilical cord or the placental tissue of her newborn child. This provision shall not be construed to apply to a physician, nurse, or other hospital employee or contractor who, or a hospital that, is directly affiliated with a religious denomination that adheres to the tenet that blood transfer is contrary to the moral principles which the denomination considers to be an essential part of its beliefs and practices. The physician, nurse, other hospital employee or contractor, or hospital, as applicable, shall record, in writing, its refusal to participate in the activity and include a copy of the refusal in the patient's medical record (Sec. 26:2H-12.46, as added by Ch. 247 (A. 312), L. 2006, enacted January 4, 2008, effective April 3, 2008).
<p>General licensed hospitals shall, upon admission, advise every patient of the hospital who is known to be pregnant of the option to donate, to a public umbilica</p>
New Jersey, Religious Discrimination Law Summaries
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