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The Pay Transparency Act Makes Its Splash this Summer in New Jersey

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Key Points: June 1, 2025, the Pay Transparency Act takes effect in the state of New Jersey. Under the Act, employers are required to include the salary and/or hourly wage range being considered for a vacant position....more

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Shining a Light on Pay: Understanding New Jersey’s New Transparency Mandate for Employers

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On June 1, 2025, New Jersey’s Pay and Benefit Transparency Act (“the Act”) took effect, ushering in a new era of openness around pay and benefits for job applicants and employees. This law is part of a growing national...more

Troutman Pepper Locke

Navigating New Jersey’s Pay Transparency Act, Effective June 1

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On June 1, new job posting requirements took effect in New Jersey under the New Jersey Pay and Benefit Transparency Act. The “Pay Transparency Act,” signed into law by Governor Phil Murphy in November 2024, requires employers...more

Fisher Phillips

New Jersey’s Pay Transparency Law Takes Effect June 1: Who’s Covered, What’s Required, and 6 Steps for Employers to Comply

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New Jersey’s far-reaching pay transparency law is about to take effect – is your business ready to comply? Starting June 1, covered employers, including certain businesses outside of the state, must disclose compensation and...more

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Are You Ready? New Jersey’s Wage Transparency Law Takes Effect on June 1, 2025

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New Jersey’s wage transparency law that was signed by Governor Phil Murphy on November 18, 2024, will take effect on June 1, 2025. For a more fulsome discussion of the ins and outs of New Jersey’s pay transparency law, check...more

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Third Circuit Predicts No Private Right of Action for Denied Job Applicants Under New Jersey Cannabis Law

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On Dec. 9, 2024, a divided panel of the Third Circuit Court of Appeals affirmed the dismissal of a class action lawsuit by New Jersey job applicants denied employment by Walmart because they tested positive for cannabis. The...more

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Federal Appeals Court Holds New Jersey’s Cannabis Law Provides No Private Right of Action

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The Third Circuit Court of Appeals has held that the New Jersey Cannabis Regulatory, Enforcement Assistance, and Marketplace Modernization Act (“CREAMMA”) does not permit a private citizen to bring a civil action for...more

Saul Ewing LLP

Third Circuit Rules That Employees Cannot Sue Employers for Discrimination Based on Marijuana Use

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On December 9, 2024, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit held that New Jersey’s Cannabis Regulatory, Enforcement Assistance, and Marketplace Modernization Act (“CREAMMA”) does not provide workers with a private...more

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Third Circuit Affirms That New Jersey’s Cannabis Law Does Not Allow a Private Right of Action

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On December 9, 2024, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit upheld the New Jersey district court’s previous ruling that there is no private right of action under New Jersey’s Cannabis Regulatory, Enforcement...more

Seyfarth Shaw LLP

Update: Governor Murphy Signs NJ Pay Transparency Legislation

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On November 18, 2024, Governor Murphy signed into law pay transparency legislation, Senate Bill 2310, which will require employers to include a pay range in job postings and provide notice of promotional opportunities to...more

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3rd Circuit Declines to Find Employment-Related Cause of Action in New Jersey’s Marijuana Laws

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The U.S. Court of Appeals for the 3rd Circuit issued an opinion earlier this week that will have significant ramifications on the abilities of plaintiffs to bring employment-related disputes arising out of New Jersey’s...more

Greenbaum, Rowe, Smith & Davis LLP

An Overview of New Jersey’s New Pay Transparency Legislation for Employers

On November 18, 2024, New Jersey Governor Phil Murphy signed into law new pay transparency requirements. The legislation, which makes New Jersey the latest state to embrace pay transparency by requiring employers to include...more

Cole Schotz

New Jersey Passes New Pay Transparency Law

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On November 18, 2024, Governor Phil Murphy signed into law A4151/S2310, which will require employers to provide pay transparency for employment opportunities advertised internally or externally to the general public. The new...more

Vorys, Sater, Seymour and Pease LLP

New Jersey Employers: Prepare for New Pay Transparency Requirements

The New Jersey legislature recently built on its 2019 efforts to increase pay-related protections for job applicants and current employees. Most employers will now be required to disclose pay ranges in their job postings and...more

Saul Ewing LLP

New Jersey Enacts Pay Transparency Law for 2025

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The number of states enacting pay transparency laws increased by one on November 18, 2024, when New Jersey Governor Phil Murphy signed into law a pay transparency act (P.L.2024, c.91) that requires covered employers to...more

Epstein Becker & Green

On Trend: New Jersey Hops on the Pay Transparency Bandwagon

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New Jersey has joined the growing ranks of jurisdictions that have enacted pay transparency laws. Senate Bill 2310 (“the Law”) was enacted on November 10, 2024, and approved on November 18, 2024 as Public Law 2024, chapter...more

Lowenstein Sandler LLP

New Jersey Joins Jurisdictions Requiring Pay Disclosure in Job Postings

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In line with several other states and localities with pay transparency laws, New Jersey has joined the ranks by enacting a law that will require employers to share salary information in job postings. Effective June 1, 2025,...more

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NJ State Assembly Passes Pay Transparency Legislation

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New Jersey is positioned to join the growing number of jurisdictions that have adopted pay transparency requirements. The New Jersey State Assembly recently passed Senate Bill 2310, which, if enacted, will require employers...more

Jackson Lewis P.C.

Getting Clear on NJ’s Upcoming Pay Transparency Law: Terms, Requirements + Noncompliance Consequences Employers Need to Know

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New Jersey is poised to join the growing list of states requiring employers to include the range of the hourly wage or salary in postings for new jobs or transfer opportunities. Senate Bill 2310 requires most businesses to...more

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New Jersey Passes Wage Transparency Law

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On September 26, 2024, the New Jersey Legislature passed Senate Bill 2310. This new law requires New Jersey employers to include certain information about compensation and benefits in both internal and external job postings. ...more

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New Jersey's Proposed Pay Transparency Law: Preparing for Potential New Compliance Obligations

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Real World Impact: The New Jersey legislature has passed a bill that, if signed, would require covered employers to disclose the compensation range and general description of benefits and other compensation programs for any...more

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NJ Employer Faces Scrutiny for Failing to Hire Medical Marijuana Patient: 7 Key Compliance Reminders

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A telecom company allegedly violated New Jersey’s anti-discrimination law by refusing to hire a job applicant after he tested positive for THC as a result of medical marijuana use, according to the state’s Attorney General....more

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New Jersey Considers Restricting Use of Artificial Intelligence in the Hiring Process

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As employers have increasingly used artificial intelligence (AI) and other Automated Employment Decision Tools (AEDTs) to assist human resource professionals and hiring managers in reviewing voluminous resumes, federal and...more

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Failure to Hire Claims Go Up In Smoke for Pot-Using New Jersey Job Applicant

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On May 25, 2023, the U.S. District Court for the District of New Jersey granted an employer’s motion to dismiss a putative class action in Zanetich v. Wal-Mart Stores E., Inc. Addressing an issue of first impression, the...more

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New Jersey and New York Introduce Bills to Regulate Sale and Use of “Automated Employment Decision Tools”

As previously reported, employers’ use of artificial intelligence to assist in employment decision-making is being subjected to ever-increasing regulatory scrutiny at all levels of government―local, state, and federal. In the...more

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