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Facing budget gap, Gov. Murphy seeks reduced spending and a …
1 day ago · The nascent Stay NJ property tax relief program requires New Jersey to maintain a surplus equal to at least 12% of spending to avoid a pause, though lawmakers overrode that provision using budget language in the current fiscal year, when reserves added up to 10.9% of spending.. The program is one source of escalating costs New Jersey faces in the coming years.
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Trump still has not signed critical transition agreements allowing access to agencies BY: Ashley Murray - November 22, 2024 WASHINGTON — Less than two months before being sworn into office, President-elect Donald Trump has yet to sign the presidential transition paperwork that unlocks critical clearances, information and access to …
Lawsuit seeks records related to Amazon worker deaths
16 hours ago · A workers’ rights group is suing a federal agency to obtain records on the deaths of three Amazon workers who died within three weeks of each other in New Jersey warehouses in 2022. WarehouseLife filed the complaint in federal court Tuesday asking a judge to force the U.S. Department of Labor to fulfill records requests and provide Occupational Health and Safety Administration reports into ...
Outdoor dining rules made permanent with new law
2 days ago · Gov. Phil Murphy signed bipartisan legislation Monday to make the state’s outdoor dining rules permanent, extending a pandemic-era practice that allowed restaurants to operate amid indoor restrictions. New Jersey has allowed outdoor dining on a temporary basis since June 2020, when Murphy issued an executive order meant to ease restaurant operations amid shutdown orders and strict limits on ...
Governor Murphy signs bill requiring pay transparency in job listings
Nov 18, 2024 · Job listings will be required to include what applicants’ potential pay would be under a new law signed by Gov. Phil Murphy Monday. The law requires New Jersey employers with more than 10 workers to disclose a compensation range and benefits in job postings. It also requires employers to disclose promotional opportunities to current employees.
Senior citizen tax relief bill wins final approval — but fate still ...
Jun 30, 2023 · Lawmakers in both chambers unanimously approved StayNJ, a program meant to slash seniors’ property tax bills that some doubt will survive until its awards begin to go out in 2026. The program will offer New Jersey homeowners 65 and over tax credits worth up to half of their property tax bills, to a cap of $6,500, as long as they make no more than $500,000 a year.
New Jersey launches website with data from police internal affairs ...
Sep 9, 2022 · Officials are lauding New Jersey’s newly launched website detailing police internal affairs complaints as a big step toward improving accountability, with criminal justice experts stressing the state’s move falls short of the kind of transparency reformers have sought.
Gun coalition targets New Jersey’s one-gun-a-month law in new …
Sep 27, 2024 · Since the U.S. Supreme Court in 2022 declared a constitutional right to carry, gun-rights advocates have targeted New Jersey’s famously tough gun laws, challenging one after the other in court, from its assault weapon ban to a prohibition on guns in sensitive places to a law that allows the state to sue gun makers as a public nuisance.. Thursday, they sued again, taking aim this time at a ...
New public database sheds light on who gets arrested in New …
Jun 13, 2023 · A law the governor signed in November 2020 directed the Attorney Genera's Office to collect aggregated information on defendants, including their demographics, offenses, case outcomes, plea agreement negotiations, and more.