As many New Jersey employers know, New Jersey’s “Millville Dallas Airmotive Plant Job Loss Notification Act” (“NJ WARN”) was amended twice in 2020. The original January 21, 2020 amendments (“January 2020 Amendments”)...more
Seyfarth Synopsis: New Jersey enacted a new law on June 4, 2021 that will lift (effective on July 4) most executive orders signed by Governor Murphy in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. While the law has been advanced as...more
UPDATED Seyfarth Synopsis: This legal update has been modified to incorporate developments from June 4, 2021. New Jersey’s WARN Act (“NJ WARN”) was amended twice in 2020. The January 21, 2020 amendments (“Jan. 2020...more
Seyfarth Synopsis: On May 24 and 26, 2021, New Jersey Governor Murphy signed Executive Order 242 and Executive Order 243 mapping out what can only be called the most confusing approach to science, masking, and other COVID-19...more
Seyfarth Synopsis: New York Governor Andrew M. Cuomo, New Jersey Governor Phil Murphy, and Connecticut Governor Ned Lamont have been actively reviewing and easing their state’s respective COVID-19 pandemic restrictions. ...more
Seyfarth Synopsis: Governor Murphy continues to tighten restrictions on indoor and outdoor gatherings through Executive Order 196 as COVID-19 cases rise across the State. ...more
Seyfarth Synopsis: On April 14, 2020, NJ Governor Murphy signed into law the second set of amendments this year to New Jersey’s Millville Dallas Airmotive Plant Job Loss Notification Act" ("NJ WARN"). ...more
UPDATE: On April 9, 2020, Senator Joseph Cryan introduced S. 2353 containing proposed amendments to NJ WARN in response to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic. These amendments (if passed) will modify the amendments (S.3170)...more
Seyfarth Synopsis: On April 8, 2020, Governor Murphy signed Executive Order 122, which requires that all essential retail, manufacturing and warehousing businesses and businesses engaged in essential construction projects...more
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Social Distancing
Seyfarth Synopsis: As concerns about community spread of the 2019 Novel Coronavirus disease (“COVID-19”) mount, New Jersey has taken measures to ensure social distancing and help “flatten the curve” and slow the spread of...more
Seyfarth Synopsis: As described in our prior alerts here and here, Governor Murphy and the State Director of Emergency Management have executed increasingly restrictive legislation, executive orders and administrative orders...more
UPDATE: On March 19, 2020, Governor Murphy and the State Director of Emergency Management announced an Administrative Order mandating the closure of all personal care businesses which cannot comply with social distancing...more