Loretta Weinberg

New Jersey is toughening its law against wage theft, in which people typically in low-pay jobs don’t receive the wages or benefits to which they’re entitled.

Five state senators have called for the investigation and removal of two Family Court judges who were criticized for downplaying the actions by accused teen rapists.

A Hackensack school board member is resisting calls for her resignation in response to an email in which she said she found the state's new LGBT curriculum law to be "incredibly disturbing and frankly shocking."

A report released on Wednesday concludes that top staffers of the Murphy administration botched handling the sexual assault claim made by one state worker against another.

New questions are being raised about the hiring practices of the Murphy administration, and Gov. Phil Murphy himself said Tuesday he’s “trying to figure out” what is going on.

“I mean, the reputational consequences for the organization are extreme,” Charles Sullivan said Tuesday in testimony before a committee that had been looking into how Murphy’s team handled Katie Brennan’s allegations against Al Alvarez.

The chief of staff of the Schools Development Authority had been twice asked to leave his job. His new boss knew he was leaving – but wasn't told why.

Gov. Phil Murphy’s chief of staff said Tuesday that he told an administration official who had been accused of rape to leave his job 10 weeks earlier than it had been known he was urged to depart – but never followed up on that late March request.

A bipartisan panel of state senators will look at how sexual assault allegations were handled by top staffers and law enforcement.

The proposed law that cleared the full Senate in July and now awaits action in the Assembly would add pregnant women, in certain cases, to the pool of workers eligible for donated leave.