N.J. Labor Chief Calls for New Enforcement Powers

New Jersey Labor and Workforce Development Commissioner David Socolow asked lawmakers to give workers' compensation judges and regulators new powers to crackdown on stakeholders who deliberately drag out cases and who misclassify workers to skirt mandatory workers' compensation coverage.Socolow and other state officials testified during a special session of the New Jersey Senate Labor Committee on Monday. The committee called the hearing to review allegations raised in a series of articles by the Star-Ledger newspaper detailing politics, delays and conflicts of interest in the state...