Last year, New Jersey continued its expansion of workplace legislation with potentially far-reaching consequences for the state’s employers.
By way of highlight and summary, New Jersey’s 2023 employment-related measures included the following:
- Governor Phil Murphy signed sweeping amendments to the Millville Dallas Airmotive Plant Job Loss Notification Act (the “NJ WARN Act”) into law. The amendments, which had been on hold due to the COVID-19 pandemic, took effect on April 10, 2023. Most notably, the amendments mandate that employers with 100 or more employees (counting both full and part-time) pay one week of severance for each year of service to each employee terminated in a “mass layoff” or “plant closing,” irrespective of whether the employer complied with the state’s WARN Act notice requirements and without conditioning payment on a release from the employee. For a summary of the amendments, see our previous blog post.
- New Jersey enacted a Temporary Workers’ Bill of Rights, which provides a broad range of protections for certain categories of temporary workers engaged by a “third-party client” through a staffing agency. The law requires that covered temporary workers be paid no less than the average rate of pay and the average cost of benefits of the employees of the third-party client performing the same or substantially similar job functions. The law also includes various administrative, notification, and recordkeeping obligations for both the staffing agencies...
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