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Breaking Down the New “Service Workers” Employment Protection Act for Community Associations and Commercial Property Owners
Presenter: Andrew Podolski, Esq., Shareholder at Stark & Stark
On October 22, 2023, New Jersey Assembly Bill 4682 / Senate Bill 2389 went into effect. This legislation establishes strict employment protections for “service employees” during changes in service vendor companies, including multi-family residential buildings with more than 50 units, office buildings with more than 100,000 square feet, industrial sites, and cultural centers such as museums, convention centers, performance halls, etc. When any of these “covered locations” changes vendors of “service employees,” such as maintenance workers, security guards, front desk workers, janitors, etc., the owner of the covered location and the replacement vendor must offer the prior vendor’s service employees the option to work in the same capacity for the successor vendor for 60 days. The law imposes significant notice and other requirements on both the covered location owner, the prior vendor and the successor vendor. Violations of this legislation impose steep per-diem penalties and even the possibility of jail time for intentional violations.