On March 28, 2019, New Jersey Governor Phil Murphy signed A-4134, the New Jersey Secure Choice Savings Program Act, also called the NJ Auto-IRA Act (the “Act”), “for the purpose of promoting greater retirement savings for private sector employees in convenient, low cost, and portable manner.” The implementation date of the Act was postponed
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U.S. Department of Labor Clarifies Small Business and Health Care Provider Exceptions to FFCRA
On April 6, 2020, the United States Department of Labor (DOL) published a set of regulations in the Federal Register implementing the paid sick leave and emergency family medical leave expansion provisions of the Families First Coronavirus Response Act (FFCRA). The regulations are effective through December 31, 2020.
As discussed in our previous blog posts,…
Employer Alert: Current Status of the Families First Coronavirus Response Act
The federal government is actively working to adopt the Families First Coronavirus Response Act (FFCRA) into law in an effort to help combat the current COVID-19 health pandemic sweeping our nation. While the final text and application of the anticipated legislation remains subject to debate and revisions, the current version of the FFCRA (which was…
New Jersey Continues to Aggressively Pursue Measures to Halt the Misclassification of Independent Contractors
In recent months, New Jersey’s Department of Labor has ramped up its efforts to crack down on employers misclassifying workers as independent contractors rather than employees. While employees in certain situations request being engaged as an independent contractor for a variety of personal or unique circumstances, the State of New Jersey is concerned that such…
New Jersey Requires Employers to Offer Transportation Fringe Benefits
On March 1, 2019, New Jersey became the first state to enact legislation, Senate Bill No. 1567 (“An Act concerning pre-tax transportation fringe benefits”), requiring employers with 20 or more employees to offer pre-tax transportation benefits (“NJ Transit Law”). The significance of this New Jersey legislation is that the state is requiring employers to offer…