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NJBIA has been pushing for both the state government and Congress to enact liability protections for businesses as they reopen. It looks like those efforts may be yielding some results. According to NJBIZ, legislative leaders have begun showing support for the concept of providing businesses with limited legal immunity against COVID-19 lawsuits as the state […]
The need to reopen New Jersey’s economy during the coronavirus pandemic has legislators on the Senate Budget and Appropriations Committee embracing the outdoors. The committee today released two bills that will make it easier for businesses like restaurants and small stores to operate on the sidewalk and even closed city streets to protect public health […]
On Thursday, Gov. Phil Murphy signed legislation which temporarily extends the deadline to file a property tax appeal to July 1, 2020. Bill A-4157, which was supported by NJBIA, also extends the deadline for county boards of taxation to render decisions in tax appeal cases to September 30, 2020. The bill takes effect immediately and […]
The federal Paycheck Protection Program’s (PPP) rules on how the forgivable business loans can be spent and the unrealistic eight-week timeframe need to be changed to save small businesses from going under as a result of the coronavirus pandemic, NJBIA said Friday. In comments to the U.S. Small Business Administration, which administers the program with […]
The Senate went ahead with a plan that would shift COVID-19 medical costs onto New Jersey’s workers’ compensation system despite warnings that it could cost the state millions of dollars in federal funding for the same purposes. The Senate on Thursday passed S-2380 (Sweeney, D-3), which would create a rebuttable presumption that if an essential […]
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