New Jersey Equal Pay for Temps Goes Live, With Illinois Up Next

New Jersey employers that contract with temporary workers will soon face an equal pay mandate and joint liability for violations alongside the agencies providing those workers, in a novel approach to employment protections that could spread to other blue states.

The New Jersey law, set to take effect Saturday, will impose a broad range of requirements on temporary staffing agencies and the companies that use their workers in specific, mostly blue-collar occupations such as construction, manufacturing, and warehousing.

They include providing detailed notices and pay stubs to workers about each job, paying workers for a half day for last-minute ...