New Jersey’s 127,000 temporary workers will walk into work this week with a new set of protections that are going into effect after years of advocacy by immigration and labor activists.
The protections, which were at the center of a monthslong legislative saga, were created after years of workers reporting exploitative job conditions and wage theft. These workers, who are technically employed by temporary staffing agencies that place them with third-party clients, say they are often “perma-temp” employees, forced to work side-by-side with full-time workers without the same protections and benefits.
Starting this week, temporary workers will benefit from a law that narrowly passed the Legislature and was signed by Gov. Phil Murphy in February. The law, known among workers and their advocates as the “temp worker bill of rights,” provides a sweeping set of protections supporters say are the first of their kind in the nation.
Staffing agencies and business organizations have argued the new mandates are onerous and could put many agencies out of business.
Here are some of the law’s major provisions:
Staffing agencies must now provide temporary workers with basic information about their job assignments in their native language, including details about:
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