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More Murphy Administration Mandates on Business without any balance whatsoever for the concerns of employers

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Trenton NJ, New Jersey Business & Industry Association President and CEO Michele Siekerka issued the following statement regarding the announcement of an executive order by Gov. Phil Murphy today mandating workplace safety protections on New Jersey businesses.

“While we have always shared the Governor’s priority to establish workplaces that follow federal safety guidelines, today’s directive again makes New Jersey an outlier in terms of mandates – without any balance whatsoever for the concerns of employers.

“Our policymakers must strike a better balance toward trying to help our employers by prioritizing legislation for liability protections supporting those businesses that are doing the right thing already – in addition to bringing them more sorely needed resources.

“Sadly, we heard no such balance from the Governor today. We only heard about applying more financial burdens on the same job creators who simultaneously have many of the greatest capacity restrictions in the nation.

“Further, most businesses already have protective safeguards in place and are critically concerned about safeguarding their workforce and their workplaces. Mechanisms already exist to call out bad actors and hold them accountable. There is no need to now mandate additional costs on the good actors through unnecessary policy. In fact, more resources should be

“We once again urge the Governor and our policymakers to put a pause on any further mandates, recognizing that New Jersey’s business climate was already consistently ranked amongst the worst in the nation pre-COVID because of the excessive cost of doing business. Further mandates only exacerbate that.”

One thought on “More Murphy Administration Mandates on Business without any balance whatsoever for the concerns of employers

  1. Who’s paying for this. Does this fall under state of emergency for municipalities. Is that part of separate line item in the budget for COVID-19. We know that the mayor and council meeting last week regarding funding correct. Have we received any funding from the state yet. And if so how much, that should be disclosed. And have we submitted a bill to them yet. And if so how much. We haven’t heard Any amount yet. I’m sure they have figures on this. I could imagine.

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