Two recent investigations by the New Jersey Department of Labor and Workforce Development’s Wage & Hour Compliance Division yielded $162,000 due to nearly 300 workers.

A two-count suit was filed in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia by the group Save Long Beach Island, a nonprofit that says proposals from the Biden and Murphy administrations haven’t thoroughly examined how to avoid harming the state's commercial fishing and tourism industries, or its marine ecosystems. 

The Garden State's unemployment rate dipped to 6.3% in December, lagging behind the national average of 3.9%.

Organized under the banner EmpowerNJ, more than 120 environmental and other social justice groups are challenging the New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection, asserting it refuses to go ahead with rulemaking tied to cutting the state’s emissions by 2030.

NJ Aspire is a flagship program under the state’s $14.5 billion 2020 Economic Recovery Act that Gov. Phil Murphy has touted as an initiative to help advance housing and commercial development projects in “overlooked” communities.

The model pairs partners with colleges and universities to give students the opportunity to concurrently fulfill requirements by earning college credits for their work-based learning.

“The omicron tsunami has washed across our state,” the governor said Tuesday during the first public appearance of his second term. “We are no longer going to look past those who continue to put their colleagues … and those who are their responsibility in danger of COVID. That has to stop.”

The legislation ranges from state subsidies allowing for businesses to hire disabled workers, to funds for a major NAACP conference in Atlantic City.

“We can all listen more, including me,” the governor said during his second inauguration at the Trenton War Memorial Theater on Jan. 18.

The additions from the New Jersey Assembly Office and the state Department of Education join the former chief spokesperson for U.S. Sen. Bob Menendez, who came on board with the group at MikeWorldWide in the fall.

Officials in the Garden State municipality are initially using the technology for health inspections, open records requests, dog and cat licenses, special event management and non-emergency constituent concern reporting.

Tom Bracken, the president and CEO of the New Jersey Chamber of Commerce, cautioned that any requirement “would cause some serious damage to certain companies because a lot of employees do not not want to be vaccinated or they would leave, and I think that was already happening.”