Bill Text: NJ S2970 | 2022-2023 | Regular Session | Amended
Bill Title: Provides employee access to employee's employment records on file with DOLWD.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 3-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2024-01-08 - Substituted by A4740 (1R) [S2970 Detail]
Download: New_Jersey-2022-S2970-Amended.html
[First Reprint]
SENATE, No. 2970
STATE OF NEW JERSEY
220th LEGISLATURE
INTRODUCED AUGUST 8, 2022
Sponsored by:
Senator NILSA I. CRUZ-PEREZ
District 5 (Camden and Gloucester)
SYNOPSIS
Provides employee access to employee's employment records on file with DOLWD.
CURRENT VERSION OF TEXT
As reported by the Senate Budget and Appropriations Committee on December 21, 2023, with amendments.
An Act concerning employee access to employment records, and supplementing Title 34 of the Revised Statutes.
Be It Enacted by the Senate and General Assembly of the State of New Jersey:
1. a. 1[Notwithstanding the provisions of R.S.43:21-11 et seq., or any other law, rule or regulation to the contrary, the Department of Labor and Workforce Development shall provide to any person, upon that person's written request, that person's wage, employment, and unemployment compensation records and information, and any other records related to that person's employment maintained by the department. The documentation shall be provided free of charge.
b.]1 Notwithstanding the provisions of R.S.43:21-11 et seq., or any other law, rule or regulation to the contrary, the Department of Labor and Workforce Development shall provide for and undertake the electronic transmission of a person's wage, employment, and unemployment compensation records and information, and any other records related to that person's employment maintained by the department, upon the request of that person, to any third party or vendor authorized pursuant to an agreement with the department to receive and transmit such information.
1[c.] b.1 The Department of Labor and Workforce Development is authorized to enter into an agreement with one or more third parties to implement the provisions of subsection 1[b.] a.1 of this section.
2. This act shall take effect immediately.
