Employers Beware: the NY Wage Theft Prevention Act is a Potential Misclassification Minefield! The NY Wage Theft Prevention Act, which became effective April 9, 2011, requires all private sector employers with New York employees (regardless of how many) to provide those employees with a “pay notice” at the time of
The New Jersey state legislature recently proposed a bill that would increase the state minimum wage to $8.50/hour effective July 1, 2012. This would make New Jersey’s minimum wage the third highest in the country (Washington and Oregon are higher). Although the bill is likely to pass the NJ State
The NJ Trade Secrets Act was signed into law in January 2012. The Act establishes principles governing the protection of trade secrets and remedies for their misappropriation. The statutory definition of a “trade secret,” fundamentally, is information which is: (1) safeguarded, (2) valuable, and (3) not common knowledge. The Act
