Unemployed workers aren't required to be looking for work during the pandemic – but they must still certify they're ready, willing and available to work.
The labor department would have to assign full-time unemployment claims handlers to legislative districts under a bill responding to continuing frustrations.
The Monmouth County Board of Commissioners has put together a guide for restaurants, small businesses and businesses of any kind looking to set up shop outdoors with how and where they can do so.
An Assembly committee endorsed a package of bills designed to boost New Jersey's alcohol makers, including some with a revenue benefit for cities and towns.
With changes to emphasis innovation, a plan to create the Government Efficiency and Regulatory Review Commission is one vote from legislative approval.
The New Jersey Senate Republican caucus have sent a letter to Senate President Steve Sweeney and Assembly Speaker Craig Coughlin asking them to schedule votes in both houses of the Legislature as they hope to override a bill Governor Phil Murphy vetoed which would help save New Jersey’s struggling restaurant industry.
The state Treasury Department announced last week that a diversity study will be conducted. Activists say nothing happened after the last one 15+ years ago.
In the spring, Gov. Phil Murphy declined to take a regional approach to imposing pandemic-driven shutdowns. A bill would require it and based it on local data.