New Jersey Governor Phil Murphy recently signed into law the Temporary Workers’ Bill of Rights, which is the first law in the nation to require equal pay for temporary workers. Under the law, employers must pay temporary workers no less than the average rate of pay and cost of benefits provided to company employees in similar positions who perform the same or substantially similar work. It also gives temporary workers rights to certain information on the terms and conditions of their engagement and imposes significant obligations on staffing agencies and their clients.
The notice and anti-retaliation provisions of the statute take effect on May 7, 2023. The remaining provisions take effect on August 5, 2023.
The law imposes several new and significant requirements on staffing agencies and their clients. The law applies to “temporary laborers,” defined as workers who contract for employment with a “temporary help service firm” in certain “designated classification placement” categories. Those designated placement categories are numerous and correspond to specific occupational categories designated by the US Department of Labor’s Bureau of Labor Statistics:
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