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The Senate Labor Committee today voted to exclude unemployment benefits paid during the pandemic from the calculation of employer contributions to the state unemployment insurance system. NJBIA testified in favor of the bill. The legislation, S-2504 (Ruiz, D-29), would protect businesses from having to pay higher rates for unemployment insurance because their businesses were shut […]
The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) announced last week that it will begin issuing charge closure documents that were suspended because of the COVID-19 pandemic. The EEOC has continued enforcing the nation’s employment non-discrimination laws during the COVID-19 pandemic while ensuring that all of our activities are consistent with public health guidelines. On March […]
Before the Murphy administration can start borrowing money to plug state budget gaps, a challenge to the new law has to get past the New Jersey State Supreme Court, which yesterday heard arguments for and against this unprecedented authority. Last month, lawmakers approved a law allowing the state to borrow nearly $10 billion to cover […]
Officials from the governor’s office characterize reopening as a success from the perspective of preventing the spread of COVID-19, though they emphasize that more work needs to be done. From NJBIA’s point of view, however, the pace of reopening, given the fact that our numbers continue to trend in the right direction, is threatening the […]
New Jersey’s job market has recovered impressively in the second quarter, setting new records for monthly job growth, but its re-employment rate is behind the national average even though many states are seeing a surge in coronavirus infections. That’s according to the latest Rutgers Regional Report by economist and professor James Hughes, former New Jersey […]
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