Introduction

On 6 February 2023, New Jersey Governor Phil Murphy signed into law the Temporary Workers' Bill of Rights. This new law, the most expansive of its kind in the nation, provides temporary workers with new rights and protections, including the right to receive pay equal to that of permanent employees. This law seeks to eliminate pay disparities and increase administrative oversight of temporary staffing agencies. Notice obligations for such agencies, wage and hour requirements and anti-retaliation provisions are among the new protections that will apply to at least 127,000 temporary labourers. The notice requirement and anti-retaliation provisions went into effect on 7 May 2023, and the rest of the Act will go into effect on 5 August 2023.

Definitions of key terms

A temporary worker is defined as a person who contracts for employment with a temporary help service firm.

A temporary help service firm means any person or entity who:

• runs a business which consists of employing individuals directly or indirectly to assign the employed individuals to help the firm's customers in handling the customers' temporary, excess or special workloads;
• in addition to the payment of wages or salaries to the employed individuals, pays federal social security taxes and state and federal unemployment insurance;
• carries workers' compensation insurance as required by state law; and
• sustains responsibility for the actions of the employed individuals while they render services to the...

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