On Aug. 11, New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie signed the Opportunity to Compete Act into law, making his state the sixth in the U.S. to “ban the box.” Ban-the-box laws, which have been passed for private employers in six states and seven cities over the last few years, from Hawaii and Minnesota to Buffalo and Seattle, prevent companies from asking job seekers to check a box on their job applications indicating whether they’ve ever been convicted of a crime.
“This is really a growing movement,” Daniel Saperstein, an associate in the labor and employment law department at Proskauer Rose’s Newark office, told CorpCounsel.com.
