Governor Murphy signed the “Temporary Workers’ Bill of Rights” on February 6, 2023. The legislation expands the rights and protections of temporary workers in New Jersey” while placing a wide range of obligations on staffing agencies and the employers that use them. The ...
1. REVIEW AND UPDATE JOB DESCRIPTIONS. Job descriptions outline the necessary skills, training and education needed to perform a job, and are critically important in furtherance of an employer’s compliance efforts when interviewing candidates; properly classifying employees as ...
Effective November 1, 2022, employers advertising jobs to be performed in New York City must include a good faith salary range for every job, promotion, and transfer opportunity advertised.
The salary transparency provisions of the New York City Human Rights Law apply to all employers that ...
On October 19, 2022, the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) released an updated poster regarding the federal laws prohibiting discrimination in the workplace. The new “Know Your Rights” poster replaces the former “EEO is the Law” poster and can be obtained and printed ...
The Executive Director for the New Jersey Cannabis Regulatory Commission (“CRC”) issued interim guidance on how to navigate the recreational cannabis landscape in the workplace while the CRC continues to work on creating standards for the Workplace Impairment Recognition Expert ...
As businesses transition back to the office, employers are confronted with a unique scenario: employees seeing one another again in-person, sometimes for the first time in over two years. With this comes a period of acclimation for the workforce. Co-workers must adjust to being in close ...
In the last several weeks, “quiet quitting” trended on TikTok and has crept into the lexicon of more traditional media outlets. What is it and what can employers do about it?
Quiet quitting is a misnomer—employees are not truly quitting. Advocates of quiet quitting say it is a reflection ...
Effective August 1, 2022, the New Jersey Division on Civil Rights adopted new and amended regulations regarding the display and distribution of posters required to be provided to employees by employers. Of particular note to employers are the requirements that apply to the Law Against ...
On August 2, 2022, the New Jersey Supreme Court issued an opinion that examines what it means for a worker to be an independent contractor.
In general, under the New Jersey Unemployment Compensation Act, to determine whether a worker is an employee or independent contractor, the facts are to be ...
On July 12, 2022, the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) updated its COVID-19 guidance on employer-required COVID testing. Throughout the pandemic, the EEOC has maintained that employers could require their employees to be regularly tested for COVID.
Until now ...