New Jersey Governor Phil Murphy has signed into law a new statute requiring pay transparency. The law will become effective on June 1, 2025. Specifically, the law requires all employers that have at least 10 employees over...more
New Jersey is poised to join the growing list of states requiring employers to include the range of the hourly wage or salary in postings for new jobs or transfer opportunities. Senate Bill 2310 requires most businesses to...more
New Jersey Governor Phil Murphy has signed into law the “Temporary Workers’ Bill of Rights,” providing temporary workers significant rights regarding their employment through temporary help service firms. Notice obligations...more
After a two-year delay, the amendment to the New Jersey Millville-Dallas Airmotive Plant Job Loss Notification Act, the state’s mini-WARN law, will take effect on April 10, 2023.
The Act, as amended, expands the coverage of...more
New Jersey is requiring employers in covered healthcare and high-risk congregate settings (“covered settings”) to establish a policy that: (1) mandates vaccinations or weekly testing for workers; (2) creates a system to track...more
The New Jersey Senate is considering a bill (Senate Proposal) that, if passed, will significantly affect business operations and employment litigation in the state for years.
Under the bill, the New Jersey Law Against...more
New Jersey has implemented a number of measures in an effort to reduce the transmission of COVID-19, including extending the public health emergency, further restricting dining and bar operations, reducing capacity at...more
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For at least the eighth time in the past nine months, in response to the COVID-19 pandemic, the New Jersey Governor has signed an Executive Order that limits the number of individuals permitted to attend indoor or outdoor...more
In response to a recent COVID-19 surge which included 3,877 new cases, New Jersey Governor Phil Murphy issued an Executive Order that impacts food and beverage establishments, scholastic and youth sports and personal care...more
11/12/2020
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Only four days after extending New Jersey’s public health emergency an additional 30 days, Governor Phil Murphy signed Executive Order 192 (EO 192), requiring businesses that operate during the continuing COVID-19 crisis to...more
Subject to certain restrictions, outdoor dining and non-essential retail shopping will be permitted in New Jersey beginning June 15, 2020, at 6:00 a.m., under Executive Order 150 (EO 150)...more
New Jersey Governor Phil Murphy has signed Executive Order (EO) 142 to permit non-essential construction projects to resume and non-essential retail businesses to reopen for curbside pickup. Effective May 18, 2020,...more
In his 37th Executive Order (EO) since the onset of the COVID-19 crisis, New Jersey Governor Phil Murphy has extended the state of emergency an additional 30 days (to June 5, 2020), citing the 130,000 positive cases, 8,244...more
New Jersey Governor Phil Murphy has released The Road Back: Restoring Economic Health Through Public Health, outlining six principles or milestones that will guide the state in deciding whether to ease the stay-at-home...more
New Jersey Governor Phil Murphy has signed a bill requiring hospitals licensed under New Jersey Statutes Title 26 to report demographic data on COVID-19 cases.
To the extent they have not already done so, hospitals...more
New Jersey has amended the Family Leave Act (NJFLA) and Temporary Disability Law (TDL) to expand the availability of job-protected leave and benefits for those affected by the COVID-19 pandemic.
The amendments largely...more
The New Jersey Legislature has passed a bill that authorizes the Governor to provide distressed small businesses the ability to invoke an “emergency rent suspension” during the COVID-19 pandemic...more
Effective April 13, 2020, at 8:00 p.m., New Jersey Transit and other carriers are directed under New Jersey Governor Phil Murphy’s Executive Order 125 (EO 125) to implement procedures and policies designed to combat the...more
New Jersey Governor Phil Murphy has signed Executive Order 119 (EO), extending the state of emergency due to the COVID-19 crisis, originally scheduled to expire on April 8, 2020, an additional 30 days, to May 8, 2020.
In...more
New Jersey Governor Phil Murphy, in his 12th Executive Order (EO 113) since the onset of the COVID-19 crisis, has authorized the state Director of Emergency Management (OEM), the Superintendent of the New Jersey State Police,...more
On March 21, 2020, New Jersey Governor Phil Murphy issued Executive Order No. 107, which directs additional closures of non-essential retail businesses (with certain exceptions) and establishes uniformity in the state’s...more