Like many states and the federal government, New Jersey has a family leave law that provides job protection to take care of a new child or certain seriously ill family members.
However, unlike the federal Family and Medical Leave Act, this doesn't cover the employee's own illness or disability.
While this looks like a disadvantage, it might not be. See Question #3 in the FAQs for the New Jersey law. For any situation that is covered by both the federal and state laws, an employee's eligibilty runs simultaneously. But if the employee must also take time off for his or her own disability, this difference in the laws may actually give him or her an added benefit:
"Thus, even though an employee may utilize all of his or her allotted time under the federal FMLA due to his or her disability, the employee may subsequently be entitled to time off under the NJFLA in connection with the birth or adoption of a child or the serious illness of a parent, child or spouse."
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