With New Jersey students returning to school this week, Senator Carmen Amato (R-9) is renewing the call to reinstate the annual back-to-school sales tax holiday, which was eliminated by Governor Murphy as part of the FY25 year’s state budget negotiations. Reports estimated that the repeal forced parents, teachers, and other back-to-school shoppers to pay roughly $35 million […] The post Amato Renews Call to Reinstate Sales Tax Holiday for School Supplies appeared first on New Jersey Bus...| New Jersey Business & Industry Association
MBI Statement on the ROAD To Housing Act While the country faces a dire housing shortage and we are encouraged to see strong bipartisan momentum on this issue, there are both promising and concerning provisions of the ROAD To Housing Act. The Act was recently passed unanimously out of the Senate Banking Committee. We are... The post MBI Statement on the ROAD To Housing Act appeared first on Modular Building Institute.| Modular Building Institute
Oregon HB 2688 Passage Statement Today, Governor Tina Kotek of Oregon signed HB 2688 into law. This disastrous legislation, which narrowly passed out of the legislature despite bipartisan opposition, will require Oregon-based modular manufacturers working on public projects to pay prevailing wages. Paying on-site construction wages for distinctly different factory work conducted under fundamentally different…| Modular Building Institute
Longtime businessman, educator and public officeholder Edward H. Salmon will receive the Distinguished Lifetime Achievement Award and the Civility in| New Jersey Business & Industry Association
Another set of legislators have asked the state Department of Labor and Workforce Development to pause a new rule that would classify many more| New Jersey Business & Industry Association
It was a national opportunity to show how New Jersey is taking its regulatory efforts way too far to reduce independent contractor work in the Garden| New Jersey Business & Industry Association