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 ...
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