Seyfarth Synopsis: The final day of the 2020-2021 New Jersey legislative session was January 11, 2022, which meant that by the end of business on January 18, 2022, Governor Murphy was required to sign, veto, comment on, or pocket veto all approved legislation. The legislature was very busy over the two-year term introducing 11,429 bills of which a total of 616 were signed into law. As the session closed, a host of legislation, some of which significantly impacts employers of all types and sizes across the Garden State, became law. This update summarizes some of those recently enacted laws, some that were passed over, and others that may be on the horizon.

Workers’ Compensation Coverage Expanded to Employer-Provided Parking Areas A-6195/S-771 Link

This law was first introduced to the legislature as the year drew to a close on December 9, 2021, and took effect upon the Governor’s signing on January 14, 2022.

The new law generally expands workers’ compensation coverage to employer-provided parking areas. More specifically, the bill amends the New Jersey Workers’ Compensation Law to provide that, where an employer provides or designates a parking area for use by an employee, workers’ compensation coverage commences “when an employee arrives at the parking area prior to reporting for work and shall terminate when an employee leaves the parking area at the end of a work period.” Further, if the parking area is separate from the place of employment, the employee would be...

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