The bill would offer more protections to temporary workers, but staffing agencies say it’ll impact small businesses.
State labor advocates have pushed for more regulations for temp agencies for years, a call that gained new urgency this year followingin the logistics and warehouse sector, where temp workers fuel at least a quarter of the labor. But staffing agencies have lobbied hard against the bill in recent months, setting up a tight fight on Monday over the future of temporary work in New Jersey.encouraged temp agencies to give their employees two hours to call and email lawmakers and oppose the bill.
Monday’s vote is expected to be close and will depend on whether bill sponsor Sen. Joe Cryan can muster the support of 21 lawmakers, largely along party lines. Last month, a pair of Senate Democrats withdrew support at the last minute and the bill was pulled from a final vote, angering labor and immigrant groups that expected it to pass. That version had been a revision prompted by, asking the Legislature to set aside funding and include "robust enforcement" mechanisms.
The bill would ban temp agencies from making unitemized paycheck deductions for costs such as meals or, which would often lower a worker’s pay below minimum wage. It would also require temp agencies to tell their workers where they are going to work and how much they will get paid. Workers who are taken to job sites but are sent home without work would also have to be compensated for at least four hours of work.
Janeth Caicedo, whose brother Edilberto Caicedo died in 2019 while working at an unlicensed New Jersey temp agency, testified during the committee hearing.
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