{"id":4344,"date":"2020-03-19T20:34:05","date_gmt":"2020-03-20T00:34:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lindabury.com\/firm\/?p=4344"},"modified":"2025-02-05T11:02:37","modified_gmt":"2025-02-05T16:02:37","slug":"the-employers-guide-to-federal-and-state-employee-leave-rights-and-income-protection-for-coronavirus-related-absences","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lindabury.com\/firm\/insights\/the-employers-guide-to-federal-and-state-employee-leave-rights-and-income-protection-for-coronavirus-related-absences.html","title":{"rendered":"The Employer&#8217;s Guide to Federal and State Employee Leave Rights and Income Protection for Coronavirus-related Absences"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Updated as of April 1, 2020<\/em><\/p>\n<p>In recent days employers have been faced with very difficult and unanticipated situations in the workplace.\u00a0 Employee absences from the workplace, whether related to personal or family illness due to the virus, voluntary or involuntary quarantines, fear of contracting the virus, reductions in hours, workplace furloughs or closures, may implicate leave rights under the federal Family and Medical Leave Act (FMLA) and the New Jersey Family Leave Act (NJFLA), as well as paid sick leave rights under the New Jersey Paid Sick Leave law. \u00a0 In addition, employees may be eligible for additional income protection from state unemployment, temporary disability and workers compensation funds.<\/p>\n<p>Signed into law on March 18, 2019 the Families First Coronavirus Response Act has several components, including paid sick leave and paid FMLA leave obligations aimed at easing the financial\u00a0 impact of the virus upon employees. 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