Eligibility
To qualify for NJFLA leave, you must have:
Worked for the Company for at least 12 months; and Worked at least 1,000 hours during the immediately preceding 12 months.
Leave Entitlement
Eligible employees may take up to 12 weeks of unpaid NJFLA leave in a 24-month period. The 24-month period is measured rolling backward from the date leave is used, and leave may be used for any of the following reasons: The birth of a child and to care for such child (leave must be completed within one year of the child’s birth). The placement of a child with you for adoption or foster care and to care for the newly placed child (leave must be completed within one year of the child’s placement). To care for a family member with a serious health condition. Where a state of emergency is declared by the governor or is considered necessary by the Commissioner of Health or other public health authority, due to an epidemic of a communicable disease, a known or suspected exposure to the communicable disease, or efforts to prevent the spread of a communicable disease, which: o Requires in-home care or treatment of your child due to the closure of the school or place of care, by order of a public official due to the epidemic, or other public health emergency; o Prompts the issuance by a public health authority of a determination, including by mandatory quarantine, requiring or imposing responsive or prophylactic measures as a result of illness caused by the epidemic or exposure because the presence of a family member for whom you provide care would jeopardize the health of others in the community; or o Results in the recommendation of a healthcare provider or public health authority that a family member for whom you provide care voluntarily undergo self-quarantine as a result of suspected exposure to a communicable disease because the presence in the community would jeopardize the health of others. Child means a biological, adopted, foster child, or resource family child, stepchild, legal ward, or child of a parent, including a child who becomes the child of a parent pursuant to a valid written agreement between the parent and a gestational carrier. Family member means a child, parent, parent-in-law, sibling, grandparent, grandchild, spouse, domestic partner, or one partner in a civil union couple, or any other individual related by blood to you, and any other individual that has a close association with you that is the equivalent of a family relationship. Parent means a person who is the biological parent, adoptive parent, foster parent, resource family parent, stepparent, parent-in-law, or legal guardian who has a “parent-child relationship” with a child as defined by law, or has sole or joint legal or physical custody, care, guardianship, or visitation with a child, or who became the parent of the child pursuant to a valid written agreement between the parent and a gestational carrier.
Serious health condition means an illness, injury, impairment, or physical or mental condition requiring:
Inpatient care in a hospital, hospice, or residential medical care facility; or Continuing medical treatment or continuing supervision by a healthcare provider.
Leave taken because of the birth or placement for adoption of a child may begin at any time within a year after the date of the birth, or placement for foster care or adoption.
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