2016 | Fair Pay, Leave, Paid Family Leave
STATUS: Enacted
The Universal Paid Leave Amendment Act of 2016 provides up to: 2 weeks to care for an employee's pregnancy; 12 weeks to bond with a new child.; 12 weeks to care for a family member with a serious health condition and to care for own serious health condition, explicitly including stillbirth and miscarriage.
Read More2021 | Leave, Paid Family Leave
STATUS: Enacted
This legislation adds siblings to the definition of family member for the purposes of paid family leave.
Read More2016 | Fair Pay, Leave, Paid Family Leave
STATUS: Enacted
The Paid Family Leave Benefits Law allows individuals to receive sixty-seven percent of their average weekly wage for no more than twelve weeks in which an employee cannot perform their work duties in order to care for a family member, to bond with a child during the first twelve months of the child's birth or the child's placement for adoption or foster care, or because of any qualifying exigency arising when a spouse or partner is on active duty without fear of being terminated, retaliation, or losing any health benefits afforded by employer.
Read More2019 | Leave, Paid Family Leave
STATUS: Enacted
Revises law concerning family leave, temporary disability and family temporary disability leave, and domestic or sexual violence safety leave, and amends N.J. Stat. Ann. § 43:21-38. An employee shall be entitled to a family leave of 12 weeks in any 24-month period upon advance notice to the employer.
Read More2008 | Fair Pay, Leave, Paid Family Leave
STATUS: Enacted
43:21-25 states that any individual elegible for benefits during a period of family temporary disability leave shall recieve 6 times their weekly benefit amount or one third of their total wages, whichever is lesser, under a private or state plan of disability benefits to care for a seriously ill or injured family member, or bond with a newborn, newly adopted or newly placed foster child for a maximum of twelve consecutive weeks in a calendar year. This bill was expanded in 2019 by A3975, which increased the paid leave to 12 weeks from July 1, 2020.
Read More2017 | Leave, Paid Family Leave
STATUS: Enacted
The New Parent Leave Act (also known as “SB 63”) provides eligible employees with up to 12 weeks of job-protected parental leave to bond with a new child in the 12 months following the child’s birth, adoption, or foster care placement.
Read More2013 | Leave, Paid Family Leave
STATUS: Enacted
SB 770 expanded California’s PFL benefits to workers who take time off work to care for a seriously ill parent-in-law, grandparent, grandchild, or sibling. The new law took effect July 1, 2014.
Read More2002 | Fair Pay, Leave, Paid Family Leave
STATUS: Enacted
The legislation provides up to six weeks of wage replacement benefits to workers who take time off of work to care for a seriously ill child, spouse, parent, or domestic partner, or to bond with a new child. The law took effect July 1, 2004. In 2013, SB 770 expanded California’s PFL benefits to workers who take time off work to care for a seriously ill parent-in-law, grandparent, grandchild, or sibling. In 2019, SB 83 extended the PFL from six to eight weeks.
Read More2019 | Fair Pay, Leave, Paid Family Leave
STATUS: Enacted
This legislation extends the Paid Family Leave from six weeks to eight weeks of wage replacement benefits to workers who take time off work to care for a seriously ill family member or to bond with a new child.
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