On February 6, 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 regular 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 laborers. The notice requirement and anti-retaliation provisions go into effect on May 7, 2023, and the rest of the Act goes into effect on August 5, 2023.
Definitions of Key Terms under the Law
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, and who, 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...
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