Seeking to tighten worker misclassification enforcement in New Jersey, on January 20, 2020, Governor Phil Murphy signed into law a package of legislation to add misclassification penalties, allow stop-work orders against employers for legal violations, promote agency information sharing, hold contractors and employers jointly liable for misclassification, and allow the state agency to publish information about state law violators.
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