Workforce Bulletin

On October 5, 2021, New Jersey Governor Phil Murphy signed A681 (“Law”) into law, strengthening the state’s protections against age discrimination by amending the Law Against Discrimination (LAD) to:

• delete the provision that had allowed employers not to hire or to promote employees over age 70 because of their age;
• delete the provision that permitted higher education institutions to require tenured employees to retire at 70 years old; and
• provide that an employee may seek all remedies permitted by the LAD if required to retire because of age, instead of being limited to ...