{"id":4401,"date":"2020-04-02T11:29:51","date_gmt":"2020-04-02T15:29:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lindabury.com\/firm\/?p=4401"},"modified":"2025-02-24T13:17:48","modified_gmt":"2025-02-24T18:17:48","slug":"new-jersey-expands-earned-sick-leave-family-leave-and-temporary-disability-benefits-in-light-of-the-coronavirus-pandemic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lindabury.com\/firm\/insights\/new-jersey-expands-earned-sick-leave-family-leave-and-temporary-disability-benefits-in-light-of-the-coronavirus-pandemic.html","title":{"rendered":"New Jersey Expands Earned Sick Leave, Family Leave, and Temporary Disability Benefits in light of the Coronavirus Pandemic"},"content":{"rendered":"

On March 26, 2020, Governor Murphy signed into law S-2304 expanding the scope of the New Jersey Earned Sick Leave Law, the New Jersey Family Leave Act, and the New Jersey Temporary Disability Benefits Law to broaden benefits available to employees who are absent from work due to epidemics such as the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic.\u00a0 These changes, as set forth more fully below, became effective immediately.<\/p>\n

New Jersey Earned Sick Leave Law<\/b><\/p>\n

Under New Jersey\u2019s Earned Sick Leave Law, employees may use earned sick leave for absences related to, among other reasons, the closure of the \u201cemployee\u2019s workplace, or the school or place of care of a child of the employee, by order of a public official due to an epidemic or other public health emergency, or because of the issuance by a public health authority of a determination that the presence in the community of the employee, or a member of the employee\u2019s family in need of care by the employee, would jeopardize the health of others\u201d.<\/p>\n

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On March 26, 2020, Governor Murphy signed into law S-2304 expanding the scope of the New Jersey Earned Sick Leave Law, the New Jersey Family Leave Act, and the New Jersey Temporary Disability Benefits Law to broaden benefits available to employees who are absent from work due to epidemics such as the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic.\u00a0 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[65,247,291],"tags":[],"coauthors":[296],"class_list":["post-4401","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-insights","category-labor-employment-insights","category-gingeleskie"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\nNew Jersey Expands Earned Sick Leave, Family Leave, and Temporary Disability Benefits in light of the Coronavirus Pandemic — April 2, 2020 — Lindabury, McCormick, Estabrook & Cooper, P.C. 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