{"id":2676,"date":"2026-05-27T10:55:19","date_gmt":"2026-05-27T14:55:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/iiicareer.com\/eng\/?p=2676"},"modified":"2026-05-27T10:54:26","modified_gmt":"2026-05-27T14:54:26","slug":"new-jersey-finalizes-independent-contractor-rule","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/iiicareer.com\/eng\/2026\/05\/27\/new-jersey-finalizes-independent-contractor-rule\/","title":{"rendered":"New Jersey Finalizes Independent Contractor Rule"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"alignright size-full is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" src=\"https:\/\/iiicareer.com\/eng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Independent-Contractor-Resized-01.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1835\" style=\"width:300px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/iiicareer.com\/eng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Independent-Contractor-Resized-01.png 800w, https:\/\/iiicareer.com\/eng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Independent-Contractor-Resized-01-300x200.png 300w, https:\/\/iiicareer.com\/eng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Independent-Contractor-Resized-01-768x512.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The New Jersey Department of Labor and Workforce Development (NJDOL) adopted on May 5, 2026 final regulations codifying its interpretation of the \u201cABC Test,\u201d which governs whether workers are classified as employees or independent contractors under multiple New Jersey statutes. The new regulations are scheduled to take effect on October 1, 2026.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>Morgan Lewis:<\/em><br><em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.morganlewis.com\/pubs\/2026\/05\/new-jersey-adopts-final-independent-contractor-regulations\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">New Jersey Adopts Final Independent Contractor Regulations<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The New Jersey Department of Labor and Workforce Development (NJDOL) adopted on May 5, 2026 final regulations codifying its interpretation of the \u201cABC Test,\u201d which governs whether workers are classified as employees or independent contractors under multiple New Jersey statutes. The new regulations are scheduled to take effect on October 1, 2026. Morgan Lewis:New Jersey [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1003,"featured_media":1835,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","header_top_description":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[412,413,66],"class_list":["post-2676","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-legal","tag-abc-test","tag-independent-contractor","tag-new-jersey"],"aioseo_notices":[],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"lightning_design_setting_object":{"layout":"","hidden_page_header":"","hidden_breadcrumb":"","siteContent_padding":"","header_trans":"","section_base":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/iiicareer.com\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2676","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/iiicareer.com\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/iiicareer.com\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iiicareer.com\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1003"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iiicareer.com\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2676"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/iiicareer.com\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2676\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2677,"href":"https:\/\/iiicareer.com\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2676\/revisions\/2677"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iiicareer.com\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1835"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/iiicareer.com\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2676"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iiicareer.com\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2676"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iiicareer.com\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2676"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}