NJ Rev Stat § 52:39A-2 (2021)
2021 New Jersey Revised Statutes|Title 52 - State Government, Departments and Officers|Section 52:39A-2 - Definitions relative to labor harmony agreements in connection with hospitality projects.

52:39A-2 Definitions relative to labor harmony agreements in connection with hospitality projects.  2. As used in this act: "Contractor" means a business entering into a contract or agreement to undertake a covered hospitality project, or to serve as the owner or operator of any facility, including but not limited to a hospitality establishment that is part of a covered hospitality project, or to provide services integral to the operations of the covered hospitality project or the facilities. "Commissioner" means the Commissioner of Labor and Workforce Development. "Covered hospitality project" or "covered project" means a project undertaken pursuant to an agreement entered into after the effective date of this act between a public body and a contractor in which: (1) one or more hospitality establishments are part of the project; (2) the public body has a proprietary interest in the project or in a hospitality establishment in the project; and (3) the project includes not less than one hospitality establishment which will have more than 10 employees. "Labor harmony agreement" means an agreement between a contractor and one or more labor organizations which represent hospitality employees, which requires, for the duration of the agreement: that any participating labor organization which represents hospitality employees and its members agree to refrain from picketing, work stoppages, boycotts, or other economic interference against the contractor.  "Labor organization which represents hospitality employees" means a labor organization that is the collective bargaining agent for employees at any hospitality establishment within a 50-mile radius of the covered hospitality project and is the collective bargaining agent for not less than 1,000 employees at hospitality establishments in the State of New Jersey, or if no such organization exists, any labor organization that is the collective bargaining agent for not less than 1,000 employees at hospitality establishments in the State of New Jersey. "Proprietary interest" means an economic and non-regulatory interest of a public body in the economic or financial success of a covered hospitality project, or the success of any facility in the project, including a hospitality establishment, that could be adversely affected by labor-management conflict, including, but not limited to, the proprietary interest of the public body as a financier, investor, lessee, lessor, operator, or owner of the project, facility, or property on which the project or facility is located, or as the provider or facilitator of financial assistance to or for the project, facility, or property, whether by direct loan or grant, or by a guarantee, subsidy, deposit, credit enhancement or similar method, and any interest of a public body derived from the ongoing receipt by the public body of revenues from the project or facilities of the project. "Public body" means the State of New Jersey, any of its political subdivisions, and any authority, instrumentality, or agency of the State of New Jersey or of any of its political subdivisions, or any other entity authorized to conduct economic development activity on behalf of a public body. L.2019, c.438, s.2.