A bill advancing in the New Jersey Legislature would expedite the implementation of significant changes to the state’s WARN law. Back in January 2020, Governor Philip D. Murphy signed into law Senate Bill 3170, which radically expanded employers’ advance notice and severance pay obligations under the Millville Dallas Airmotive Plant Job Loss Notification Act—otherwise known as NJ WARN. Shortly thereafter, the COVID-19 pandemic began to unfold, which prompted an interest in delaying the implementation of the amendments to NJ WARN. Governor Murphy signed Senate Bill 2353, which delayed the effective date of the amendments to 90 days after the termination of Executive Order (EO) 103 (the Governor’s Declaration of a State of Emergency). With COVID-19 subsiding but no foreseeable termination in sight for EO 103, the New Jersey Legislature is working to uncouple the effective date of the 2020 NJ WARN amendments from EO 103. On October 3, 2022, lawmakers introduced S3162 in the New Jersey Senate.

Under the proposed legislation, the NJ WARN amendments would take effect 90 days after the enactment of the new law, regardless of whether the State of Emergency remains in effect.

As Littler previously reported, the amendments would make several very substantial changes to NJ WARN:

• Notice is triggered by a termination in a 30-day period (or sometimes in a 90-day period) of 50 or more employees located anywhere in the state (i.e., terminations are not counted separately at different...

Read Full Story: https://news.google.com/__i/rss/rd/articles/CBMibGh0dHBzOi8vd3d3LmxpdHRsZXIuY...