Dec 19, 2023 | Atlantic City Airport | Baggage Scale Testing | Credit Card Surcharge Laws | Hidden Credit Card Surcharges | New Jersey Consumer Fraud Act (“CFA”) | Newark Liberty International Airport (“EWR”) | No Cash Payment Policies | Consumer Protection | Division of Consumer Affairs | Division of Law | Press Release | Protecting New Jersey in Court
Attorney General Matthew J. Platkin and the Division of Consumer Affairs (“the Division”) today announced educational and enforcement initiatives that will help protect consumers from being overcharged as they shop, dine, and travel to celebrate the season with family and friends.
Dec 11, 2023 | Back Wages | Complaint | fines | Independent Contractors | Misclassification of Drivers | New Jersey Department of Labor and Workforce Development | penalties | Defending our Workforce | Department of Labor | Division of Law | Press Release
Attorney General Matthew J. Platkin and New Jersey Department of Labor and Workforce Development (NJDOL) Commissioner Robert Asaro-Angelo announced today that they have filed the first lawsuit under a 2021 law against employers who have misclassified workers as independent contractors.
Nov 28, 2023 | Affirmative Civil Enforcement Practice Group | CFA | Consumer Fraud Act | Division of Consumer Affairs | Division's Office of Weights and Measures | Dollar General | OWM | OWM Enforcement Unit | Pricing Violations | Settlement | Weights and Measures Act | WMA | Consumer Protection | Division of Consumer Affairs | Division of Law | Press Release | Protecting New Jersey in Court
Attorney General Matthew J. Platkin and the Division of Consumer Affairs today announced that Dollar General Corp. (“Dollar General”), a national discount retail chain has agreed to pay $1.2 million to resolve allegations of pricing violations.
Nov 16, 2023 | Morgan Stanley | Multistate Settlement | personal information | Security Lapse | Smith Barney LLC | Consumer Protection | Division of Consumer Affairs | Division of Law | Press Release | Protecting New Jersey Consumers
Security Lapses Affected Personal Information Belonging to More than 755,000 NJ Residents.
Nov 8, 2023 | Brick | Clifton | Cosmetology School | Defrauded Students | Division of Consumer Affairs | Kenilworth | Licensure | Paramus | Settlement | State Board of Cosmetology and Hairstyling | Consumer Protection | Division of Consumer Affairs | Division of Law | Press Release
A now-defunct New Jersey cosmetology school and its related entities have agreed to pay nearly $640,000 to resolve the State’s lawsuit alleging they defrauded students and engaged in substandard business practices that financially harmed students.
Oct 30, 2023 | COVID-19 | Disability Discrimination | Division of Law | Division on Civil Rights | Mercer County Community College | Settlement | Bias and Discrimination | Civil Rights | Division of Law | Division on Civil Rights | Press Release
Attorney General Matthew J. Platkin and the Division on Civil Rights (DCR) announced today that DCR has entered into a Consent Order and Decree resolving a complaint alleging that Mercer County Community College discriminated against an employee who contracted COVID-19.
