Effective July 17, 2026, amendments to New Jersey’s Family Leave Act (“NJFLA”) will require more New Jersey employers to offer NJFLA leave to more workers. Employers need to note these new requirements and plan accordingly to ensure compliance.

What is NJFLA?

NJFLA, since its inception in 1989, has required covered employers to provide job-protected leave to eligible employees. Eligible employees are entitled to take up to 12 weeks of unpaid, job-protected leave during a 24-month period for qualifying family-related reasons.

NJFLA leave is only available for certain enumerated purposes and differs from other job-protected leave entitlements, such as the Family Medical Leave Act, in that it provides leave to employees to care for others with serious health conditions, but does not provide for leave for an employee’s own health condition. Employers should note that leave for any employee’s own health condition may be required as a reasonable accommodation, under the Family Medical Leave Act if the employer has 50 or more employees within a 75-mile radius and the employee meets eligibility requirements, or pursuant to other applicable laws.

While NJFLA is “unpaid leave”, New Jersey’s Family Leave Insurance, a program administered by the State and not by employers, provides pay to eligible employees who take family leave. The NJFLA eligibility and implementation requirements have been expanded and amended throughout the years.

What is new?

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