Signed by Governor Phil Murphy

Vote Smart's Synopsis:

Vote to pass a bill that requires transparency on compensation with promotional opportunities and in employment listings in New Jersey.

Highlights:

• Requires employers to make reasonable efforts to announce, post, or otherwise make known opportunities for promotion that are advertised internally within the employer or externally on internet-based advertisements, postings, printed flyers, or other similar advertisements to all current employees in the affected department or departments of the employer’s business prior to making a promotion decision (Sec. 1).

• Specifies that each failure to announce, post, or otherwise make known one promotional opportunity will constitute a separate violation (Sec. 1).

• Requires employers to disclose in each posting for promotions, new jobs, and transfer opportunities that are advertised by the employer either externally or internally the hourly wage or salary, or a range of the hourly wage or salary, and a listing of benefits and other compensation programs for which the employee would be eligible within the employee’s first 12 months of employment (Sec. 1).

• Specifies each failure to include the information required in a particular job posting will constitute a separate violation (Sec. 1).

• Authorizes the Commissioner of Labor and Workforce Development may enforce the provisions of the bill in a summary proceeding, and an employer who violates the bill will be subject to a civil penalty in an amount not to exceed (Sec. 1):

• $1,000 for the first violation;

• $5,000 for the second violation; and 

• $10,000 for each subsequent violation.

• Specifies that the provisions of this bill shall take effect 7 months following passage and approval by the Governor (Sec. 2).

Full Bill Text