Takeaways
- Beginning on or about 07.17.26, New Jersey employers with at least 15 employees must provide employees with leave under the New Jersey Family Leave Act. Out-of-state employers with at least 15 employees also must provide leave to their New Jersey based employees.
- Benefits may potentially include job‑protected leave for employees receiving short-term disability or family leave insurance benefits, because employers may now be required to reinstate employees to the same or equivalent position. However, significant open questions remain as to whether this law creates any new leave rights or simply layers additional job protection on existing leave rights when an employee receives short-term disability or family leave insurance benefits.
- Employers face operational and compliance implications, including handbook updates, COBRA considerations, and challenges managing extended employee absences.
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New Jersey Gov. Murphy signed into law A3451/S2950 to greatly expand employer coverage and employee eligibility under the New Jersey Family Leave Act (NJFLA) on Jan. 18, 2026, as one of his last acts before leaving office. The law potentially converts receipt of Temporary Disability Insurance benefits (TDI) and Family Leave Insurance benefits (FLI) into job-protected leave. The law will go into effect on or about July 17, 2026, six months after its effective date.
Gov. Murphy stated in a press release that these changes will provide over 400,000...
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