NJ Temp Worker Equal Pay Law Weathers Associations’ Appeal (1)

New Jersey’s first-of-its-kind law requiring companies to pay temporary workers the same as traditional employees survived a bid by a trio of business groups to pause the change on constitutional grounds.

The suing groups failed to demonstrate that the law likely runs afoul of the US Constitution’s dormant commerce clause, so the district judge’s decision to deny them a preliminary injunction stands, the US Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit said unanimously in a Wednesday ruling. The law doesn’t selectively burden out-of-state firms or benefit in-state ones, but instead “imposes uniform wage restrictions on all firms doing business in ...