Governor Christie Conditionally Vetoes New Jersey’s Pay Equity Bill

On Monday, Governor Chris Christie conditionally vetoed proposed amendments to the New Jersey Law Against Discrimination concerning equal pay for women in the workplace. As we reported previously, both the Assembly and Senate passed a bill that would impact New Jersey employers by making it an unlawful employment practice for an employer to discriminate on the basis of gender under a “substantially similar work” standard.  The bill also would have allowed employees to be compared even if they do not work in the same establishment, with no geographic limitation; and, unlike other recently-enacted fair pay laws in New York and California, would have permitted unlimited back pay.

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