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War on Independent Contractors: UPDATE
November 22, 2019As you know, Senate Bill 4204, legislation that effectively prohibits the use of independent contractors in New Jersey, was released from the Senate Labor committee last Thursday, November 14th. The legislation was released with a few modest amendments, exempting accountants, as well as realtors and insurance agents, with caveats. On Monday, November 18th, the legislation More »
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November 15, 2019Update on S4204 Independent Contractor Legislation: Yesterday the Senate Labor Committee released Senate Bill 4204, legislation that effectively prohibits the use of independent contractors in New Jersey. The bill is sponsored by Senate President Steve Sweeney. NJCJI testified against the legislation, arguing that the independent contractor model not only serves an important economic function, it More »
Read More »Does Atalese Apply to All Contracts? Appellate Courts at Odds.
September 27, 2019Contributed by: Shalom D. Stone, Managing Partner at Stone Conroy LLC in Florham Park. Please email Shalom Stone or Alida Kass if you would like more information. Five years ago this week, the Supreme Court of New Jersey held in Atalese that arbitration agreements — or at least some arbitration agreements — are unenforceable unless More »
Read More »New Jersey’s War on Independent Contractors: Criminal and Civil Penalties for Independent Contractor Misclassification Signed into Law
September 12, 2019Legislation targeting independent contractors has been signed into law by Governor Phil Murphy. Although sold as legislation addressing “wage theft”- simplefailure to pay agreed-upon lawful wages – the legislation was designed to deter the use of independent contractors. This legislation criminalizes misclassification and other wage and hour violations – 3-5 years in jail – including good More »
Read More »NJCJI’s Spring Luncheon
April 16, 2019Appellate Advocacy and the Role of Amici at the New Jersey Supreme Court Registration is now open for our Annual Spring Luncheon, featuring Justice Anne Patterson. We hope you can join us on Wednesday, May 29th from 12:00pm – 2:00pm at the Trenton Country Club in West Trenton, NJ. Space is limited – please visit More »
Read More »Wage & Hour Coalition
April 12, 2019Wage Hour Fairness Coalition Letter
Read More »A2903 Memo – Interested Parties
April 9, 2019A2903 Memo – Interested Parties
Read More »Letter to NJ Senators
November 12, 2018A letter shared this week from Senate Judiciary Chairman Chuck Grassley indicates that New Jersey’s senators, Senators Menendez and Booker, have not met with the Third Circuit judicial nominee, Paul Matey, and have not returned the “blue slips” – a courtesy which has historically been extended to home state senators of proposed nominees, to ensure they More »
Read More »Decision from New Jersey Supreme Court on Accutane Appeal
October 3, 2018We had more good news coming out of the New Jersey Supreme Court this morning in the other Accutane appeal that was heard earlier this year. Today’s decision addressed the applicability of New Jersey’s Product Liability (PLA) to Accutane claims consolidated in MCL in Atlantic County, and the adequacy of Roche’s warning label under the More »
Read More »Save the Date!
September 25, 2018Mark your calendars and plan to join us on October 9th for our annual Fall Legal Reform Conference, featuring New Jersey Labor Commissioner Robert Asaro-Angelo as our keynote speaker. This year’s event will be held at PriceWaterHouseCoopers Campus in Florham Park from 8:30AM-1:00PM. NJCI is pleased to announce New Jersey Labor Commissioner Robert Asaro-Angelo will be the keynote speaker for our More »
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