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Assembly Labor Panel to Consider Bill Allowing Unemployment Benefits for Striking Workers

(TRENTON) – The Assembly Labor Committee will meet Monday to consider, among other bills, legislation to permit the payment of unemployment insurance benefits during labor disputes.
The Assembly Labor Committee will meet on Monday at 10 a.m. in Committee Room 15 on the Fourth Floor of the State House Annex in Trenton.
Audio of the hearing will be streamed live at:
http://www.njleg.state.nj.us/media/live_audio.asp
The following bills will be considered:
A-319
Singleton/Wisniewski/
Conaway/Caride/Quijano/Sumter/Wimberly Permits reimbursement of COBRA health benefit costs of survivors of certain deceased public safety employees; appropriates $750,000.
A-3597
Singleton/DeAngelo/
Space/Phoebus Requires certain contractors to register under “The Public Works Contractor Registration Act.”
A-3606
Eustace/DeAngelo/
Webber
S-2004
Beach/Madden Requires DOLWD to permit veterans and other groups to apply for UI benefits online.
A-3819
Quijano/DeAngelo/Giblin/Benson/Zwicker/
Danielsen/Houghtaling Concerns unemployment compensation and labor disputes.
AR-153
Houghtaling/DeAngelo Urges Congress and President to remove barriers to providing employees continuation health insurance coverage during strikes.