Many employers commonly ignore requests from the New Jersey Division of Unemployment and Temporary Disability Insurance (“Division”) to provide the reason they terminated an employee’s employment.  With the recent amendments to the state’s Unemployment Compensation Law (UCL), effective July 31, 2023 (the Amendments), employers should rethink that practice.  This, among other changes to the UCL, should dramatically alter the way employers deal with New Jersey unemployment compensation claims.

Summarized below are key takeaways from the Amendments.