For employers looking to hire, a recent New Jersey law is mandating an important change on transparency requirements. On November 18, 2024, New Jersey Governor Phil Murphy signed legislation into law requiring most covered businesses to disclose wage or salary information and a description of benefits in job postings.
Set to take effect in June 2025, this new law covers private businesses with ten (10) or more employees over a 20-calendar week period that do business, employ persons, or take applications for employment in New Jersey. This will also cover public sector employers, job placement and referral agencies, and other employment agencies.
For those covered employers, this new law requires them to make “reasonable efforts to announce, post, or otherwise make known opportunities for promotion that are advertised internally at the employer’s place of business or externally on internet-based advertisements, postings, etc. prior to making a promotion decision. The notification requirements do not apply to a promotion of a current employee based upon years of experience or performance.”
What this new requirement means is that when an employer posts for a new job, transfer or promotion opportunity, it must include the hourly wage or salary in the posting, or a range of the hourly wage or salary, along with a general description of benefits and other compensation.
While there will not be a private right to sue based on a violation of this law, this law will be enforced by the New Jersey Division of Labor and Workforce Development. A first violation will cost an employer $300.00 and further violations will cost $600.00 per violation.
See the PTGB Law Blog for more information.
