Garden State May Soon Become Even Less Hospitable to Independent Contractors Than the Golden State
By EsqSocial Corporation 01/05/25
The New Jersey Department of Labor and Industry (the Department) announced on April 28, 2025, that it was filing a notice of a proposed regulation addressing the test for independent contractor (IC) status under New Jersey law. In 2015, the New Jersey Supreme Court ruled that the three-prong test for IC status under the New Jersey Unemployment Compensation Law also governed IC status under the state’s wage laws....
By: Troutman Pepper Locke