New Jersey has passed the Opportunity to Compete Act which establishes certain employment rights for persons with criminal records by prohibiting employers from asking applicants about their criminal record history during the initial employment application process. 

We would like to remind New Jersey clients of their obligation to annually distribute to their New Jersey employees, via written or electronic means, the required notice under the Conscientious Employee Protection Act (CEPA) in both English and Spanish. 

The cities of Passaic, East Orange, Paterson, and Irvington recently passed their own paid sick leave ordinance that will provide the majority of private employees working in those cities with paid sick leave.

We have updated our sick leave toolkit based on additional guidance issued in New Jersey which clarifies some issues that were ambiguous or not addressed in the underlying law.

NJ law requires NJ employers with 50 or more employees to “conspicuously post” and distribute a notification stating employees’ rights to be free from gender inequity or bias in pay, compensation, benefits or other terms or conditions.

We would like to remind New Jersey clients of their obligation to annually distribute to their New Jersey employees, via written or electronic means, the required notice under the Conscientious Employee Protection Act (CEPA) in both English and Spanish.