During his budget address at the Statehouse Tuesday Gov. Phil Murphy proposed a 2.5% Corporate Transit Fee on corporations with more than $10 million in annual profit.
A poll from the New Jersey Business & Industry Association suggests there are plenty of employers contemplating the idea of requiring vaccination among workers.
“It will get worse before it gets better because kids who go to college are going to start peeling off to go to college in a couple weeks,” Gov. Murphy said.
Following the announcement by Gov. Phil Murphy on Monday that most mask and social distance requirements in New Jersey will be lifted May 28, there is growing confusion about how this new directive impacts businesses.
As retailers and businesses struggle to hire employees, they're offering all kinds of incentives from cash to tuition to free meals as they staff up for summer.
The pandemic's impact on New Jersey businesses in 2020, plus its anticipated impact on 2021 revenues, equals fewer perks and limited pay raises next year for workers, according to a survey released by the New Jersey Business & Industry Association.
Gov. Phil Murphy on Wednesday signed an executive order that will mandate masks, temperature checks, social distancing and other protections in public and private-sector workplaces.
In the end, it took a worldwide pandemic – plus a plan for $500 checks to middle-class families in an election year – to get a millionaires tax back on the books in New Jersey.