Bill Text: NJ A4028 | 2024-2025 | Regular Session | Introduced
Bill Title: Provides certain resources to county prosecutors for enforcement of law regarding failure to pay wages; makes appropriation.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 8-0)
Status: (Introduced) 2024-03-07 - Introduced, Referred to Assembly Labor Committee [A4028 Detail]
Download: New_Jersey-2024-A4028-Introduced.html
Sponsored by:
Assemblywoman SHAVONDA E. SUMTER
District 35 (Bergen and Passaic)
Assemblyman WILLIAM B. SAMPSON, IV
District 31 (Hudson)
Assemblywoman GARNET R. HALL
District 28 (Essex and Union)
Co-Sponsored by:
Assemblywoman Katz
SYNOPSIS
Provides certain resources to county prosecutors for enforcement of law regarding failure to pay wages; makes appropriation.
CURRENT VERSION OF TEXT
As introduced.
An Act concerning enforcement of law regarding failure to pay wages, supplementing Title 34 of the Revised Statutes and Title 2A of the New Jersey Statutes, and making an appropriation.
Be It Enacted by the Senate and General Assembly of the State of New Jersey:
1. The Department of Labor and Workforce Development shall provide funds and training to the county prosecutor of each county for the investigation and prosecution of violations of the provisions of State wage and hour laws and the provisions of section 10 of P.L.1999, c.90 (C.2C:40A-2).
2. The county prosecutor of each county shall establish and assign an assistant prosecutor to the investigation and prosecution of violations of the State wage and hour laws and the provisions of section 10 of P.L.1999, c.90 (C.2C:40A-2).
3. There is appropriated from the General Fund to the Department of Labor and Workforce Development such sums as may be necessary, but not to exceed $2,000,000, as shall be determined by the Director of the Division of Budget and Accounting in the Department of the Treasury, to effectuate the provisions of this act.
4. This act shall take effect immediately.
STATEMENT
This bill requires the Department of Labor and Workforce Development (DOLWD), for purposes of supporting the enforcement of the provisions of State wage and hour laws, to provide funds and training to each county prosecutor's office for the investigation and prosecution of the abovementioned laws and worker exploitation. The bill requires the county prosecutor of each county to establish and assign an assistant prosecutor to the investigation and prosecution of violations of the State wage and hour laws. The bill makes an appropriation from the General Fund to the DOLWD, not to exceed $2,000,000, for purposes of effectuating the provisions of the bill.
