Under a new executive order by Gov. Phil Murphy this week, nonessential businesses can open with curbside restrictions.
As NJBIA President and CEO Michele Siekerka explained to NJNN reporter Heather Fordham on Thursday, some businesses will have to get creative to be profitable with their limitations.
And that’s why NJBIA and other business groups released a Reinvention and Recovery framework earlier this month.
“This is going to be a challenge, but this is an opportunity to be innovative,” Siekerka said. “And that’s why we call it a reinvention framework, because everyone is going to change as a result of this.”
Siekerka also explained that some retail businesses that have been closed will need money to survive, even with their partial reopenings.
“These companies are going to need immediate operating funds to open up,” Siekerka said. “They’ve been closed for eight weeks. They may have to rebuild up their inventory, so we’re working on operational grants for them.”
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It isn’t just retail businesses. It’s all small businesses. I’m an Pre-employment background Screening company and until the court houses are open we can get criminal records in NJ. Essentially it puts us out of business.We’re paying employees withPPP to do nothing. This money would be best used when the courts open and we can resume business. We’ll need the help then. Employees should have stayed on unemployment until the states fully opened, then PPP kicks in. After the PPP money is gone, how do I pay my employees? With every little income coming in. The ramp up should have started when NJ fully opened everything. What us essential vs. non-essential? I think my business is essential. Medical us hiring without background checks. How scary is that. Those medical employers are unable to see if these workers have committed crimes. Because of the archaic system in NJ the only why to get criminal records us through public access terminals in the court house. So why was this closed? Why weren’t we paying a clerk to work and let researchers into the court area where these terminals were with social distancing? The ides of PPP Was good but it’s delivery was poorly thought out. Did anyone in government talk to small business leaders?