HR-96 (12/19)

Posting # 2022-100 Issue Date: 03/29/2022 Closing Date: TBD

Title: Employment Services Trainee Range/Title Code: P95/64790 Salary: $46,431.86 - $48,351.07

Unit Scope: Statewide Public/Private Location: Wage and Hour Division and Contract Compliance-Counties Throughout New Jersey Workweek: 35 # Vacancies: 7

Job Description

Per Executive Order 253, all state employees are required to be vaccinated by October 18, 2021 or undergo frequent testing. Please do not submit
your vaccine card at this time.

The Department of Labor and Workforce Development (DOL) provides many benefits to employees to acknowledge and value their
contribution. Statewide Benefits include health insurance, pension, Flexible Spending Accounts (FSA)/Health Savings Accounts (HSA), life
insurance, deferred compensation and more. The DOL also provides tuition reimbursement (after nine months of employment), Alternate
Workweek Program (determined by division), and employee training.

Under direction of a supervisory official in the Department of Labor and Workforce Development, as a trainee and productive worker in a
local employment office, does work involved in interviewing and classifying job applicants for employment; makes field and office
investigations to determine applicant eligibility for employment disability benefits and/or unemployment insurance; assists in making
investigations involved in observance of Title 34, New Jersey Statutes, or in administration of sections of the Prevailing Wage Act for which
the office is responsible; does other related duties as required.

The position of Field Representative is an investigator responsible for enforcing a host of Wage and Hour and Public Contracts laws such as
minimum wage, overtime, child labor, earned sick leave and prevailing wage. The position requires site visits to employer establishments
and worksites, entails meetings with employers or their representatives, auditing of records and documents, interviews of workers,
calculations of any back wages to workers and the writing of reports documenting the findings of their investigation.

Civil Service Commission Requirements (Education/Experience/License
*If you have previously applied to posting #2021-296, you do not need to reapply*

EDUCATION: Graduation from an accredited college or university with a Bachelor's degree. Applicants must submit a copy of your final
unofficial transcripts, which indicates the date your degree was conferred, and the type of degree awarded. Failure to submit final unofficial
transcripts with your resume may result in your ineligibility.

RESUME NOTE: Eligibility determinations will be based only upon information presented on the resume along with other supporting
documents. Applicants who possess a degree from a college or university outside the United States must provide an evaluation of the transcripts
from a recognized evaluation service at the time of submission. Failure to do so may result in your ineligibility.

COUNTY PREFERENCE FORM NOTE: Applicants must complete the County Preference Form. Failure to return the completed County
Preference Form may result in your inability to be considered for the County of your choice.

LICENSE: Appointees will be required to possess a driver's license valid in New Jersey only if the operation of a vehicle, rather than employee
mobility, is necessary to perform the essential duties of the position.

VETERANS PREFERENCE: Are you a veteran? If so, proof of your NJ Veterans Preference is required at application. Please provide a copy
of your New Jersey Civil Service Commission NOTIFICATION OF VETERANS STATUS along with your cover letter and resume. For
information on how to apply for Veterans Preference in the State of NJ, please visit the Civil Service Commission's website at
http://www.state.nj.us/csc/seekers/veterans.

ADVANCEMENT: Appointees who successfully complete the 12-month training period will be eligible for advancement to the title Field
Representative, Wage & Hour Compliance in accordance with Civil Service Commission procedures. The inability of an employee in a trainee
title to attain a level of performance warranting advancement shall be considered cause for separation.

TO APPLY for this Position
If you qualify and would like to be considered, submit a letter of interest, transcript, county of preference form and your resume
(including daytime phone number, and email address) to the person and email address listed below. You must submit your response by
the closing date shown above, and must include the Posting number.

This is not a promotional announcement for a Civil Service Examination.
This posting may result in personnel actions which will require final approval by the Department of Labor and Workforce Development

and the Civil Service Commission in accordance with Civil Service Commission rules and regulations.

Job Posting Authorized by Tennille R. McCoy, Assistant Commissioner, Division of Human Capital Strategies

• Newly hired employees must agree to a thorough background check that will include fingerprinting.
• Any appointments made from postings which involve movement between unit scopes, may result in a forfeiture of rights to any

promotional list in a former
unit scope.

• As of September 2010, in accordance with N.J.S.A. 52:14-7, the “New Jersey First Act,” all new employees must reside in the State of

• Work Authorization: Applicants must be authorized to work in the United States according to the Department of Homeland Security,

The New Jersey Department of Labor and Workforce Development is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer.

New Jersey Department of Labor and Workforce Development
County Preference Form

Name:

Posting Number:

Title:



Please check the county (or counties) of preference for the above position and return this form with your
cover letter and resume. Please only check those counties where you will accept employment, if offered. A
failure to accept employment when offered in a county you indicated, will remove you from consideration
for all counties. (There is no guarantee that you will be employed in that County if selected for the position.)

Atlantic Bergen Burlington Camden Cape May Cumberland Essex

Gloucester Ocean

Hudson Passaic

Hunterdon Salem

Mercer Somerset

Middlesex Sussex

Monmouth Union

Morris Warren



Failure to return the completed County Preference Form with your cover letter and resume may result in your
inability to be considered for the County of your choice.

New Jersey Department of Labor and Workforce Development

PERSONAL RELATIONSHIPS DISCLOSURE STATEMENT

In accordance with the Uniform Ethics Code adopted by the NJ State Ethics Commission and the State Policy Prohibiting
Discrimination in the Workplace, the New Jersey Department of Labor and Workforce Development
(NJ DOL) requires the disclosure of all relatives, consensual personal relationships, and cohabitants. No NJ DOL employee
may supervise or exercise any authority with regard to personnel actions involving their relative, anyone with whom there is a
consensual personal relationship, or anyone with whom they cohabit.

Relative means an individual’s spouse/domestic partner/civil union partner1 or the individual or spouse’s/domestic
partner’s/civil union partner’s parent, child, brother, sister, aunt, uncle, niece, nephew, cousin, grandparent, grandchild, son-in-
law, daughter-in-law, stepparent, stepchild, stepbrother, stepsister, half-brother or half-sister, whether the relative is related to
the individual or the individual’s spouse/domestic partner/civil union partner by blood, marriage or adoption.

Consensual personal relationship means marriage, engagement, dating or other ongoing romantic or sexual relationships.

Cohabitant means non-related persons who share a household under circumstances where there is financial interdependence.

The New Jersey Department of Labor and Workforce Development requires the disclosure of all relatives and consensual
personal relationships to be promptly reported directly to the Division of Human Capital Strategies (HCS) - Director’s Office.
Confidentiality shall be maintained to the extent possible and practicable. This information may be shared with NJ DOL’s
Equal Employment Opportunity Office and/or the NJ DOL Ethics Office as deemed necessary. Upon receiving notice of the
relationship, HCS may address any situation as necessary in consultation with the EEO Office and/or the Ethics Officer. This
may include, but is not limited to, the changing of reporting relationships or transferring any of the employees involved. Failure
to provide notification to HCS may result in discipline up to and including termination and the denial of legal representation
and indemnification by the State in the event that a lawsuit is filed having a connection with a personal relationship. Employees
are under a continuing obligation to promptly report personal relationships that develop during the course of their employment.

I DO NOT have a relative or a consensual personal relationship, as defined above, with anyone working for the New Jersey
Department of Labor and Workforce Development.

I DO have a relative or a consensual personal relationship, as defined above, with anyone working for the New Jersey
Department of Labor and Workforce Development identified as follows:

Name Relationship Division and Work Location

Do you need more space for disclosure? Yes No If YES, continue writing on the back of this form.

I certify that the information on this form to the best of my knowledge and belief is true, complete and accurate. I understand
that any misleading or incorrect information, willful misstatement, or omission of a material fact, may be just cause for
disciplinary action up to and including termination. I understand my obligation to promptly report personal relationships that
develop during the course of my employment.

1 Domestic Partner as defined in NJSA 26:8A-1 et. seq. and Civil Union status as defined in NJSA 37:1-28 et. seq.