Title 34. Labor and Workers’ Compensation § 34:21-5. Establishment of response team, N.J. Stat. § 34:21-5
Summary
a. There is established, in the Department of Labor and Workforce Development, a response team. The purpose of the response team is to provide appropriate information, referral and counseling, as rapidly as possible, to workers who are, or may be, subject to plant closings or mass layoffs, and the management of establishments where those workers are or were employed.
b. In the case of each transfer or termination of the operations in an establishment which results in the termination of 50 or more employees, the response team shall:
(1) Offer to meet with the representatives of the management of the establishment to discuss available public programs which may make it possible to delay or prevent the transfer or termination of operations, including economic development incentive and workforce development programs, shared work unemployment compensation benefit programs, and coordinated utilization of any of those programs which are applicable;