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Save New Jersey Call Center Jobs Act - passes in the assembly

Ogletree Deakins
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USA
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April 4 2012

A bill (A2651) introduced on March 9, 2012 and passed in the Assembly on March 15, 2012, would have a dramatic impact on New Jersey employers intending to outsource a call center (telephone-based or email-based) overseas

Third Circuit disallows cost shifting of the majority of ESI expenses

Ogletree Deakins
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USA
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April 4 2012

In a matter of first impression (for any federal appeals court), the Third Circuit has determined that the majority of costly activities related to the discovery and production of electronically stored information (ESI) undertaken by the defendants’ ESI vendor, such as hard drive imaging, data processing and keyword searching, were not litigation expenses recoverable by the prevailing defendants

Bill seeks to more than double the minimum wage for tipped workers by July 2013

Ogletree Deakins
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USA
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April 4 2012

On March 8, 2012, a bill (A2708) was introduced to the Assembly Labor Committee (and has since advanced to a second reading in the Assembly), which would substantially alter the laws governing the compensation of tipped workers in New Jersey

New Jersey Assembly proposes bill to expand the list of permissible wage deductions

Ogletree Deakins
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USA
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October 15 2012

On October 1, 2012, a bill (S2213) was introduced that would expand the list of permissible deductions for two specific purposes

New Jersey senate proposes “New Jobs for New Jersey Act” that provides tax credits to small private sector employers

Ogletree Deakins
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USA
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October 15 2012

On September 20, 2012, a bill (S2211) was introduced that, generally speaking, would make employers with 100 or fewer full-time employees eligible for a tax credit (against the corporation business tax or the gross income tax, whichever applies), for each employee hired into a full-time position, so long as the employee was previously unemployed for more than 30 days

New Jersey bill seeks to make independent contractor relationship onerous and risky

Ogletree Deakins
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USA
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October 15 2012

On September 27, 2012, a bill (A3310) was introduced that seeks to place onerous requirements on employers that engage independent contractors (for $600 or more), and that would impose significant damages and penalties for noncompliance with pay arrangements

Bills proposed in New Jersey to require payment of unemployment benefits during lengthy appeals

Ogletree Deakins
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USA
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October 15 2012

In late September, two bills (S2212 and A3309) were introduced which would provide that if a claimant appeals an unemployment determination and no decision is made within 60 days, he or she would be paid any benefits withheld while waiting for the appeal determination

Workplace bullying law reintroduced in New Jersey

Ogletree Deakins
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USA
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October 15 2012

On September 24, 2012, the “Healthy Workplace Act” (A3249) was re-introduced, seeking once again to make workplace bullying, abuse, and harassment unlawful

Social networking privacy bill close to New Jersey Governor’s desk

Ogletree Deakins
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USA
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October 15 2012

As previously reported in several issues of the New Jersey eAuthority (July 2012, June 2012, and May 2012), several bills are pending that seek to, among other things, prohibit employers from seeking or requiring current or prospective employees to disclose their user names or passwords for their personal social networking sites (such as Facebook and Twitter

New pay equality poster and notice law enacted in New Jersey

Ogletree Deakins
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USA
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September 24 2012

On September 21, 2012, New Jersey Governor Christopher Christie signed into law a bill that will require many employers to post and distribute to employees a notice of their right to be free from gender-based pay discrimination in the workplace, and obtain employees’ acknowledgment of receipt of the notice

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