New Jersey State Wage and Hour Law Abstract 2023 Poster Required

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New Jersey Department of Labor and Workforce Development
Wage and Hour Law Abstract
N.J.S.A. 34:11-56a et seq.	
STATUTORY MINIMUM WAGE RATE
Employees are to be paid not less than the New Jersey minimum wage in 
accordance with the schedule below.	
OVERTIME
Overtime is payable at the rate of 1.5 
times the employee’s regular hourly rate 
for hours worked in excess of 40 in any 
week except where otherwise specifically 
provided by wage order.
Exempt from the overtime entitlement are:
• 	executive, administrative, and 
professional employees	
• 	employees engaged in labor on a 
farm or relative to raising or care of 
livestock; and	
• 	limousine drivers.	
WAGE ORDER REGULATIONS
Employees in the occupations found below are covered by 
this wage order and regulations and must be paid not less 
than the statutory minimum wage rate.
• 	First processing of farm products 	
• 	Hotel and motel	
• 	Food service (restaurant industry) 	
• 	Seasonal amusement	
These regulations are contained in 	N.J.A.C. 12:56-11.1 	 	
et seq.
EXEMPTIONS
Exempt from the statutory minimum wage rate are full-time 
students employed by the college or university at which 
they are enrolled at not less than 85% of the effective 
minimum wage rate; outside sales person; sales person 
of motor vehicles; part time employees primarily engaged 
in the care and tending of children in the home of the 
employer; and minors under 18 (	EXCEPT	 that minors under 	
18 in the first processing of farm products, hotels, motels, 
restaurants, retail, beauty culture, laundry, cleaning, dyeing, 
light manufacturing and apparel occupations are covered 
by the wage order rates as above and vocational school 
graduates with special permits under the Child Labor Law 
are covered by the statutory rate).
Employees at summer camps, conferences and retreats 
operated by any nonprofit or religious corporation or 
association are exempt from minimum and overtime rates 
during the months of June, July, August and September.	
LABOR ON A FARM AT PIECE-RATE
Employees engaged on a piece-rate basis to labor on a 
farm shall be paid for each day worked not less than the 
minimum hourly wage rate multiplied by the total number of 
hours worked.
PENALTIES
Any employer who violates any provisions of this act 
shall be guilty of a disorderly persons violation and upon 
conviction shall be punished by a fine of not less than $100 
nor more than $1,000.
As an alternative to or in addition to any other sanctions 
provided by law for violations, the Commissioner is 
authorized to assess and collect administrative penalties, 
up to a maximum of $250 for a first violation and up to a 
maximum of $500 for each subsequent violation.
The employer shall also pay the Commissioner an 
administrative fee equal to not less than 10% or more than 
25% of any payment due to employees. 
Penalties for violation of this order are set forth in  
N.J.S.A. 34:11-56a22.	
Date	Most Employers	
Seasonal & Small Employers	 	(fewer than 6)	
Agricultural	 	Employers	
Cash Wage 	 	for Tipped 	 	Workers	**	
Wage for Long-Term Care Facility Direct Care Staff Members	***	
1-1-20	$11	$10.30	$10.30	$3.13	$11, $14 as of 11/1/20	
1-1-2021	$12	$11.10	No Change	$4.13	$15	
1-1-2022	$13	$11.90	$11.05	$5.13	$16	
1-1-2023	$14.13	$12.93	$12.01	$5.26	$17.13	
1-1-2024	$15	$13.50	$12.50	No Change	$18	
1-1-2025	TBD	$14.30	$13.40	TBD	TBD	
1-1-2026	TBD	$15.00	$14.20	TBD	TBD	
1-1-2027	TBD	TBD	$15	TBD	TBD	
Under the law, the “effective minimum wage rate” for any given year covered by this chart is the highest of the federal minimum wage rate, the minimum wage rate set by New Jersey statute, or a minimum wage  rate  adjusted  to  account  for  increases  in  the  Consumer  Price  Index  (CPI). The  minimum  wage  rates  listed  in  the  chart  through  2023  are  the  true  effective  minimum  wage  rates  for  those  years. However, the minimum wage rates listed for 2024 and the following years reflect only the NJ statutory rates (and, thus, are estimates), in that we do not yet know whether either the federal minimum wage rate or the CPI-adjusted rates will exceed the NJ statutory rates for those years.Cash wage plus tips must equal at least the State minimum wage.As of 11/1/2020, Long-Term Care Facility Direct Care Staff Members are paid $3.00 above the State minimum hourly wage 	and increases accordingly anytime the State minimum wage increases. 	Overtime at the time and a half regular rate is due with the exception of certain truck drivers, loaders, helpers and mechanics involving vehicles weighing in excess of 10,000 lbs. GVW and 	 	who travel 	interstate.	
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