New Jersey law requires non-exempt employers to provide paid sick leave to their employees, accrued at a rate of one hour of leave for every 30 hours worked. The employee may use and accrue up to 40 hours of such leave per year, all of which can be carried forward into the following year. The employee may take paid leave for the diagnosis, care, treatment of, or recovery from their own or their family member’s mental or physical injury, illness, or medical condition, as well as for preventative care. Paid sick leave may also be taken for care and services for themselves if they or their family member have experienced domestic violence or sexual assault.
Other uses of paid sick leave include time taken for a child’s school related conference or due to closures at an employees place of work or their child’s school resulting from a public health emergency. For the purposes of this law, “family member” is defined as a biological or nonbiological child or parent, a grandchild, sibling, spouse, domestic partner, civil union partner, or grandparent or the above specified family members of the employee’s domestic partner, civil union partner, or spouse “or any other individual related by blood to the employee or whose close association with the employee is the equivalent of a family relationship.
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