While some employers deduct the cost of supplies and uniforms from their employees’ paychecks, and others deduct money to pay for cash register shortages or breakage, these deductions are not always legal. Some states, including New Jersey, forbid these types of deductions by employers from their employees’ paychecks. In states in which these deductions are
Workers in New Jersey must be paid at their regular hourly rates for all of the regular hours that they work, excluding overtime. For your overtime hours, your employer must pay you at a rate of one-and-one-half times of your regular hourly rate. If your employer owes you regular or overtime pay, you may recover
In 1993, Congress passed the Family and Medical Leave Act so that employees who are forced to miss work to care for their own serious medical conditions, to care for the health conditions of their family members, to care for new children or because of their family members’ military service can have job security. One
The New Jersey governor signed an equal pay amendment into law on April 24, 2018, which amends the New Jersey Law Against Discrimination. The new law will be effective on July 1, 2018, and it increases the equal pay protections for workers who are members of certain protected classes. Under the act, pay differences that