While many laws regulate the payment of wages for long hours (the broadest and most famous of these being the FLSA’s overtime requirement), few if any statutes purport to require workweeks of a certain length. However, that is exactly what Jersey City, NJ has now attempted to do in a new ordinance requiring a 30-hour
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Trenton Sick Leave Law Withstands Judicial Challenge; Philadelphia Sick Leave Law May Become Preempted
By Noel P. Tripp on
Trenton, New Jersey, like numerous other municipalities (especially in New Jersey), recently enacted its own paid sick leave law. As with Seattle’s recent minimum wage rulemaking, a coalition of New Jersey business groups challenged the city’s authority to do so, urging that the ordinance exceeded the city’s police powers and offended constitutional protections. New…
New Jersey Amends State Constitution to Increase Minimum Wage
By Noel P. Tripp on
Posted in Minimum Wage, New Jersey
Overriding the March 2013 veto by Governor Chris Christie of a proposed bill increasing the state’s minimum wage, New Jersey’s Democratic legislative majority successfully pushed through a constitutional amendment through a voter referendum (not subject to gubernatorial veto) to increase the New Jersey minimum wage from $7.25/hour to $8.25/hour effective January 1, 2014. This request…
New Jersey Federal Court Dismisses Truck Driver Misclassification Claims
By Noel P. Tripp on
Even as the New Jersey legislature contemplates amendments to the law (similar to those enacted in New York) limiting the classification of certain truck drivers as independent contractors, a New Jersey federal judge has granted an industry employer’s motion to dismiss claims that its drivers were misclassified as independent contractors. Luxama v. Ironbound Express, …