The state’s Temporary Workers’ Bill of Rights went into effect, in part, on May 8, which the Department of Labor and Workforce Development highlighted by launching a new website.

The legislation, signed into law by Gov. Phil Murphy in February, expands the rights and protections afforded to temporary laborers, allowing for greater oversight of temporary help service firms and third-party clients by NJDOL and the Division of Consumer Affairs.

Murphy had conditionally vetoed the bill last fall, calling for some technical tweaks, but a revised version reached his desk this winter. The measure comes amid ongoing growth in the temp industry in New Jersey, fueled in large part by the boom in warehouse and e-commerce space, with estimates of at least 127,000 people working for some 100 licensed companies – and many more working for unlicensed entities outsides of regulators’ purview.

Among the protections and provisions in the law:

• Companies would be prohibited from charging excessive fees and be required to meet a minimum wage threshold.
• Companies would be required to disclose to the temp laborer in their primary language, details on the work to be performed, including a description of the position, wages, terms of transportation and the length of the assignment, while spelling out hourly wages and deductions.
• Firms must register with the NJDOL, and third-party clients are barred from employing temporary laborers through an unregistered firm.
• Temporary laborers are protected...

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