NewJersey

New Jersey does not have a legitimate tech or staffing industry, as far as we are currently aware.

Note

Opinion: It’s generally in your best interest to avoid New Jersey if you work in Tech.

Warning about International Phone Relays

Treat New Jersey area codes with deep suspicion as they are often used for fruad and identity theft.

New Jersey is known as a place where a lot international PBX phone relays are used to make the owners look like domestic american companies. This type of Misrepresentation is actively illegal in most states, but they do it anyway because they are threat actors who are choosing NJ because NJ allows it when nobody else does.

These same relays are also used by scammers and con-artists based on our research and experience.

Make sure you protect yourself from the worst NJ has to offer.

Social Media Privacy Law

NJ has a law against companies asking for or accessing your socia media. That law is at https://lis.njleg.state.nj.us/nxt/gateway.dll?f=templates&fn=default.htm&vid=Publish:10.1048/Enu

NJ WARN Act

The New Jersey has a business closing/mass layoff notification law (i.e., New Jersey’s mini-WARN Act), known officially as the “Millville Dallas Airmotive Plant Job Loss Notification Act,”. You can find that law at https://lis.njleg.state.nj.us/nxt/gateway.dll?f=templates&fn=default.htm&vid=Publish:10.1048/Enu. The state act affords fewer exemptions to notice delays than does the federal WARN Act, and damages can be far steeper.

NJ WAGEs MUST BE FULLY PAID WITHOUT DEDUCTIONS

No employer may withhold or divert any portion of an employee’s wages unless the employer is required or empowered to do so by New Jersey or federal law or unless the amounts withheld or diverted are pursuant to one of the specifically enumerated reasons set forth in New Jersey’s Wage Payment Law at https://lis.njleg.state.nj.us/nxt/gateway.dll?f=templates&fn=default.htm&vid=Publish:10.1048/Enu. This basically means they have to get your signature to be able to do this. So if you don’t accept it, then they can’t legally do it.

NJ Non-Exempt Wages paid twice a month by law.

Every employer must pay the full amount of wages due to its employees at least twice per month, on regular pay days designated in advance, except that employees who are exempt from overtime may be paid only once per month on a regularly established schedule. Employees must be paid no more than 10 days after the end of the pay period for which the wages were earned. - N.J.S.A. § 34:11-4.2.

Final payment must happen within 10 dats. - N.J.A.C. § 12:55-2.4.

They may not force you to accept payment that is not cash in your hands or bank account. § 12:55-2.4 Must be met.