Concerns temporary disability insurance and family leave insurance benefits.

# Summary of New Jersey Disability and Family Leave Bill This bill amends New Jersey's Temporary Disability Benefits Law (P.L.1948, c.110) and Family Leave Insurance Law (P.L.2008, c.17) with several significant changes: 1. **Expanded Coverage**: Extends temporary disability insurance (TDI) and family leave insurance (FLI) benefits to cover care for family members needed due to public health emergencies or states of emergency (including school closures when federal funds are available). 2. **Military-Related Benefits**: Extends FLI benefits to cover certain exigencies arising from active military service. 3. **Eligibility Changes**: - Eliminates the seven-day waiting period for TDI benefits - Changes eligibility requirements - employees only need to have earned at least $1,000 during their base year (regardless of work duration or total earnings) - Provides that weekly benefit rates for TDI or FLI taken during unemployment are set at TDI/FLI rates (not unemployment compensation rates) 4. **Employer Requirements**: - Requires employers to maintain health insurance coverage during leave periods on the same terms as when employees are working - Sets requirements for employer notification to employees about their rights, including right to unemployment benefits if not restored to employment after leave due to reduction in force - Requires employers to provide written notices of benefits to employees 5. **Employee Rights**: - Provides reinstatement rights to equivalent employment after leave for all TDI/FLI benefits (extending this to FLI leave takers at employers with fewer than 30 employees) - Allows employees eligible for both earned sick leave and TDI/FLI benefits to choose which to use, but not to receive more than one kind of paid leave simultaneously - Makes an employee's statement that they or a family member is a victim of domestic or sexual violence sufficient documentation for benefits 6. **Self-Employed Coverage**: Provides self-employed individuals the option to obtain TDI and FLI coverage by making equivalent contributions to the TDI fund. The bill aims to modernize New Jersey's disability and family leave system, making benefits more accessible and comprehensive while strengthening employee protections.