Sponsored by:
Assemblywoman PAMELA R. LAMPITT
District 6 (Burlington and Camden)
Assemblywoman CELESTE M. RILEY
District 3 (Cumberland, Gloucester and Salem)
Assemblyman PAUL D. MORIARTY
District 4 (Camden and Gloucester)
Co-Sponsored by:
Assemblywomen Mosquera, Watson Coleman and Assemblyman Fuentes
SYNOPSIS
Requires employers post notice of worker rights under certain State and federal laws.
CURRENT VERSION OF TEXT
As introduced.
An Act concerning employer notices and supplementing P.L.1952, c.9 (C.34:11-56.1 et seq.).
Be It Enacted by the Senate and General Assembly of the State of New Jersey:
1. Every employer in this State shall conspicuously post notification, in a place or places accessible to all workers in each of the employer's workplaces, in a form issued by regulation promulgated by the Commissioner of Labor and Workforce Development, of worker rights under every applicable State and federal law that provides for gender pay equity or that prohibits wage discrimination based on gender.
The employer shall provide each worker of the employer with a written copy of the notification: not later than 30 days after the form of the notification is issued by the commissioner; at the time of the worker's hiring, if the worker is hired after the issuance; and at any time, upon the first request of the worker.
The commissioner shall make the notification required by this section available in English, Spanish, and any other language that the commissioner determines is the first language of a significant number of workers in the State and the employer shall post and provide the notification in English, Spanish, and any other language for which the commissioner has made the notification available and which is the first language of a significant number of the employer's workforce.
2. This act shall take effect on the 61st day after the date of enactment.
STATEMENT
This bill requires every employer in the State to post notification, in a place or places accessible to all workers in each of the employer's workplaces, in a form proscribed by the Commissioner of Labor and Workplace Development, of worker rights under every applicable State and federal law that provides for gender pay equity or that prohibits wage discrimination based on gender.
The bill also requires that every employer provide each worker of the employer with a written copy of the notification: not later than 30 days after the form of the notification is issued by the commissioner; at the time of the worker's hiring, if the worker is hired after the issuance; and at any time, upon the first request of the worker.
Finally, the bill requires that the commissioner make the notification required by this bill available in English, Spanish, and any other language that the commissioner determines is the first language of a significant number of workers in the State and that the employer post and provide the notification in English, Spanish, and any other language for which the commissioner has made notification available and which is the first language of a significant number of the employer's workforce.