Helping to ease commuting costs for New Jersey workers, legislation sponsored by Assemblyman Daniel Benson, D-14th District, was approved by the assembly on Jan. 31, 62-12-2. Assembly Bill 2425 will now head to Gov. Phil Murphy for further review. The bill requires every employer in New Jersey with at least 20 employees, not subject to ...

New Jersey will be the latest state to pursue a $15 minimum wage after Gov. Phil Murphy signed a bill Monday afternoon to increase the wage to $15 an hour for most workers by 2024. “Today, we start our way on this path. Today, we make our economy fairer and stronger,” Murphy said, flanked by ...

Lawmakers want to give municipalities the option to provide a dedicated funding source for local arts and culture, a move proponents argue will help the towns nurture these sometimes struggling segments of local economies.

A little-known provision of the $15 minimum wage bill — a tax credit for employers who hire workers with disabilities — could provide a career boost for thousands of state residents.

U.S. Sen. Cory Booker touted his seven-year mayorship in Newark, and what he called the city’s “biggest economic development period,” after becoming the latest Democrat to throw his hat in the ring for the 2020 presidential nomination on Friday. “My time here in Newark during the worst economy of my lifetime, we did things that ...

The state Legislature sent Gov. Phil Murphy a proposal allowing municipalities to create their own stormwater utilities – a move praised by environmental activists as a way to aid the state’s aging stormwater systems and reduce flooding, but decried by businesses as a potentially frivolous tax. Senate Bill 1073, which the Assembly approved in a ...

U.S. Sen. Cory Booker, the former mayor of Newark, announced Friday that he is running for president. “I’m Cory Booker and I’m running for president of the United States of America,” he says in the video announcement. Booker also notes that he is “the only senator who goes home to a low-income, inner city community” ...

Lawmakers sent Gov. Phil Murphy a bill that would ban the use of non-disclosure agreements in workplace sexual harassment settlements – a mechanism proponents of the measure say is used to silence harassment victims. Senate Bill 121, introduced on the heels of the #MeToo movement, would prevent those kinds of agreements in the future and ...

The state Assembly approved a bill that would effectively hike the gas tax on United Airlines, the largest airline company doing business in New Jersey, in order to finance the extension of the PATH Train to Newark Liberty International Airport. Senate Bill 2892, sponsored by Senate President Stephen Sweeney, D-3rd District, and approved in a ...