Bill > A5532

Introduced Session

This bill establishes the "Business Growth Protection Act" and revises the law concerning temporary help service firms and temporary laborers. The bill limits its applicability to temporary laborers working in the State. Under current law, New Jersey residents who are temporary laborers working outside the State are covered, which was causing third party clients in other states to reduce their use of temporary laborers from New Jersey. The bill changes what information is required to be provided in itemized statements by temporary help service firms to temporary laborers from a daily commission rate to the option of calculating hours worked, for itemized statements and placement fee calculation, based on total hours worked during a weekly or other pay period. The bill protects proprietary information of temporary help service firms by providing that the firms do not have an obligation to disclose pay rates to third party clients or third party client bill rates to temporary laborers. The bill revises the law to change the pay equity provision from equal pay and benefits to just equal pay. The bill provides that equal pay means temporary help service firms are required to pay temporary laborers a wage not less than the client's current entry level pay rate for client employees with the minimum qualifications for the position. The bill revises the surety bond requirement for temporary help service firms. Specifically, the bill reduces the bond requirement from not less than $200,000 to a minimum of $50,000 and a cap of $200,000, depending on the revenue of the temporary help service firm. The bill changes the rebuttable presumption of retaliation under the law with respect to termination of an assignment. The bill provides that no presumption of retaliation will be raised based solely on the termination of a scheduled temporary assignment.

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Yvonne Lopez (D)*, 

Introduced, Referred to Assembly Labor Committee (on 04/10/2025)

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