Heading into 2025, New Jersey employers should familiarize themselves with notable 2024 legislative and administrative actions in the employment space.

Employer obligations now include a gender-neutral dress code, pay transparency, additional posting requirements, and more.

Notable Employment Law Developments in 2024

By way of highlight and summary, New Jersey’s 2024 employment-related measures included the following:

• Remote Employees: On May 14, 2024, New Jersey Attorney General Matthew J. Platkin (“Attorney General”) and the New Jersey Division on Civil Rights (NJDCR) issued guidance clarifying the application of the New Jersey Law Against Discrimination (NJLAD) to remote employees. In particular, the guidance takes the position that the NJLAD protects employees of New Jersey employers “regardless of their residency or where they physically work, including those who work remotely full-time or part-time on a hybrid schedule.” For additional details on this guidance, see our previous blog post.
• Pay Transparency: New Jersey enacted S2310, which, beginning June 1, 2025, will require most New Jersey employers to disclose a wage or salary range and general description of benefits and other compensation programs in their job postings and advertisements. Covered employers will also need to make “reasonable efforts to announce, post, or otherwise make known opportunities for promotion” to current employees, a feature that is not common in similar laws enacted by other...

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