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Terms Used In New Jersey Statutes 43:21-17

  • Appeal: A request made after a trial, asking another court (usually the court of appeals) to decide whether the trial was conducted properly. To make such a request is "to appeal" or "to take an appeal." One who appeals is called the appellant.
  • Division: means the Division of Unemployment and Temporary Disability Insurance of the Department of Labor and Workforce Development, and any transaction or exercise of authority by the director of the division thereunder, or under this chapter (R. See New Jersey Statutes 43:21-19
  • Employer: means : (1) Any employing unit which in either the current or the preceding calendar year paid remuneration for employment in the amount of $1,000. See New Jersey Statutes 43:21-19
  • Pro se: A Latin term meaning "on one's own behalf"; in courts, it refers to persons who present their own cases without lawyers.
  • State: includes , in addition to the states of the United States of America, the District of Columbia, the Virgin Islands and Puerto Rico. See New Jersey Statutes 43:21-19
(a) In any civil action to enforce the provisions of this chapter, the Commissioner of Labor and the State may be represented by any qualified attorney, who is a regular salaried employee of the Department of Labor or is designated by it for this purpose, or, at the commissioner’s request, by the Attorney General.

(b) In any administrative proceeding before the Division of Unemployment and Temporary Disability Insurance of the Department of Labor, the board of review or the appeal tribunal, the claimant or the employer may appear pro se or employ an attorney or a nonattorney to represent him.

Amended by L.1984, c. 24, s. 11, eff. Oct. 1, 1984.