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Business leaders Say New Jersey is Just Too Expensive

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NJBIA 64th Annual Business Outlook Survey Details Affordability, Inflation Challenges for NJ Businesses

Trenton NJ, while affordability was the talk in Trenton a year ago, New Jersey’s business community is clearly feeling left out of that conversation.

In NJBIA’s 64th annual Business Outlook Survey, released today, a large majority (75%) said Gov. Phil Murphy and lawmakers have not done enough to address business affordability in the past 12 months – compared to just 5% who said policymakers are doing enough.

Further, a combined 82% said New Jersey is either somewhat unaffordable for business (46%) or not affordable at all for business (36%).

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1 in 6 Hiring Managers Have Been Told to Stop Hiring White Men

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Ridgewood NJ, according to ResumeBuilder.com , while the overwhelming majority agree that DEI initiatives have played an overall positive role at their company, many also expressed concerns about what some are calling “reverse discrimination” in the hiring process.

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“Temporary Worker’s Bill of Rights”, Protecting Temporary Worker Jobs

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Trenton NJ,  the New Jersey Staffing Alliance (NJSA), the voice for staffing firms across the Garden State, has over the past year discussed its views with members of the state legislature on S-511/A-1474 also referred to “Temporary Worker’s Bill of Rights” to include language that would ensure staffing agencies remain in compliance with new administrative regulations while protecting the safety and health of the workers they serve. NJSA firmly believes that while Governor Murphy’s conditional veto of A-1474 addressed several administrative issues, it left in place significant elements that would cause not only great harm to the law-abiding temporary staffing industry, but also its clients and ultimately the citizens whom this bill’s sponsors purported to benefit and protect.

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New Jersey Job Numbers Soft Despite Plunge in Unemployment Rate

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  • Private-sector jobs fall for first time since the worst of the pandemic
  • Sharp drop in the unemployment rate reflects decline in labor force, as well as increase in numbers working
  • Sharp decline in construction, as government jobs grow

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Morristown NJ, on October 20th, New Jersey’s Department of Labor and Workforce Development issued the monthly jobs report for September 2022. Dr. Charles Steindel, former Chief Economist of the State of New Jersey, analyzed the report for the Garden State Initiative: Continue reading New Jersey Job Numbers Soft Despite Plunge in Unemployment Rate

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The Average New Jersey job Seeker Admits their Resume is Only 72% Accurate

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Fake it till you make it? The average New Jersey job seeker admits their resume is only 72% accurate, survey finds.

  • This compares to a national resume accuracy rate of 72%.
  • Of those who would lie about the college they attended, most would falsely claim they attended Harvard.
  • Interactive map showing resume inaccuracies in each state.

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Ridgewood NJ, Embellishing your career achievements can result in serious consequences, most likely eliminating you from the pool of candidates for a prospective job. If you do get hired and your resume lie is later discovered, you will likely be asked to leave.

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Unemployment rate edged down to 3.5 percent Job Growth Continues to Slow

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Washington DC, (8:33am) total nonfarm payroll employment increased by 263,000 in September, and the unemployment rate edged down to 3.5 percent, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics reported today. Notable job gains occurred in leisure and hospitality and in health care.

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New Jersey Announces $500K to Expand Small Business Exporting

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Trenton NJ, the New Jersey Department of State’s Business Action Center has announced today that it has been awarded $500,000 in federal funds for the State Trade Expansion Program (STEP) to support new-to-exporting food and beverage manufacturers in underserved business communities.

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NJ Senator Schepisi Seeks Permanent Solution for Temp Workers

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River Vale NJ, Senator Holly Schepisi today introduced legislation that would protect temporary workers and the agencies that employ them from the detrimental effects of another bill that could soon be on its way back to the Governor’s desk.

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Flaws in NJ Temp Workers Bill Could Cause Further Job Loss

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Trenton NJ, the NJ Staffing Alliance (NJSA) requests that Governor Murphy conditionally veto the Temp Workers Bill of Rights A-1474/ S-511, to allow the fixing of several flaws that would place undue hardship on temporary staffing agencies and potentially force their closure and loss of jobs for thousands of temp workers.

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Assemblyman Christopher DePhillips Renews calls to cut N.J. corporate tax to compete with Pennsylvania

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Trenton NJ,  Pennsylvania’s corporate tax cut must be a catalyst for change in New Jersey, says Assemblyman Christopher DePhillips. The lawmaker is calling on legislative leadership to prioritize his bill to lower New Jersey’s highest-in-the-nation 11.5% corporate business tax rate before companies, jobs and families move to the Keystone State.

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Pharmaceutical Companies Next on the Democrats Hit List

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Trenton NJ, New Jersey advertises itself as the “Medicine Chest of the World.” Nine of the largest drug companies in the nation are either headquartered in, or have major operations clustered in the Garden State.
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Payrolls Increased a More than Expected 372,000 in June

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Washington DC, total nonfarm payroll employment rose by 372,000 in June, and the unemployment rate remained at 3.6 percent, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics reported today. Notable job gains occurred in professional and business services, leisure and hospitality, and health care.

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The Port Authority of New York and New Jersey Says No Deal on Amazon Cargo Hub at Newark Liberty International Airport

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Newark NJ, on Thursday the  Port Authority of New York and New Jersey Says No Deal on Amazon Cargo Hub at Newark Liberty International Airport.  The $125M Amazon cargo hub had promised  1,000 new jobs . The Port Authority of New York and New Jersey today released the following statement from Chief Operating Officer Huntley Lawrence:

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Jersey Mike’s Subs Fined Nearly $25K in penalties following investigation of child labor compliance

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Ridgewood NJ, the Ridgewood location remains unaffected, but according to the U.S. Department of Labor officials an investigations of 10 locations of Jersey Mike’s Subs in four states, including Freehold, Long Branch, Neptune and Red Bank in New Jersey, found the teen employees were allowed to work past 7 p.m. on school days, past 9 p.m. in the summer and more than three hours on school days.

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Google Searches for “remote crypto jobs” increase 614% in a year

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Ridgewood NJ, Since the pandemic we have seen a growing interest in remote jobs and preferences in working from home – particular among employees in the tech industry.

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