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NJ Magazine Distributor Ordered To Pay $300K In Back Wages, Penalties: Attorney General
A New Jersey magazine and newspaper distributor will be paying nearly $300,000 in back wages and penalties after misclassifying employees as independent contractors, authorities said.
The New Jersey Department of Labor began investigating NJ Penn, which has offices in Jersey City, and determined that between 2018 and 2022, NJ Penn misclassified at least 105 newspaper delivery, warehouse, and other workers as independent contractors instead of employees, in violation of New Jersey law, the New Jersey Attorney General's Office said.
NJ Penn violated numerous labor laws, including failing to p…
$20K In Tools Stolen From Camden County Contractor
An independent contractor in Camden County recently was robbed of all his lifelong tools.
Bob Costello, 67, had collected the tools over a 46-year period, according to his daughter, Aubrié Costello of Mount Ephraim.
"Every single one of his tools was taken," she wrote on this GoFundMe page.
He's old school. A one-man show who draws his own plans by hand. Costello lives extremely minimally, those who know him say.
"He lives humbly and for those of you who know him, he'll be the first to tell you his business gives him purpose, and life, and is, as he says, the only thing he really has…
