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 ...
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