New Jersey Governor Phil Murphy recently signed into law the “Temporary Workers’ Bill of Rights” (the “Law”), which provides significant rights and protections for temporary workers, and imposes burdensome obligations on the temporary staffing firms (and their clients) that employ them. Among other things, the Law mandates equal pay for temporary workers performing the same or substantially similar work as the permanent employees of the client for whom they are working, and requires staffing firms to provide advance written notice of specific terms and conditions of their temporary workers’ assignments with the staffing firm’s clients. The Law will undoubtedly have a major impact on the temporary staffing industry in New Jersey going forward.
Who is Covered?
The Law applies to “temporary help service firms” (i.e., temporary staffing firms) with respect to their “temporary laborers” who are contracted to work in a “designated classification placement” with a client of the staffing firm. “Designated classification placement” means an assignment to perform work in any of the following occupational categories designated by the Bureau of Labor Statistics of the United States Department of Labor:
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