New Jersey has recently passed a law to expand benefits to employees under the New Jersey Family Leave Act (NJFLA), Family Leave Insurance (FLI) and Temporary Disability Insurance (TDI).

NJFLA

- The number of employees an employer must have to be eligible for NJFLA is being reduced from 30 or more employees to “15 or more employees for each working day during each of 20 or more calendar workweeks in the then current or immediately preceding calendar year.”

- The number of days employed and hours worked for an employee to be eligible for NFLA benefits has been reduced. Currently, an employee must be employed for at least 12 months and work at least 1000 hours in the previous 12 months to be qualified. The new rules reduce this requirement so the individual only needs to be employed for 3 months and needs to have only worked 250 hours in the previous 12 months.

TDI/FLI

- Any employee receiving these benefits will now have job-protected leave upon return.

- The law also clarified that employees have the option of using New Jersey Earned Sick Leave or receiving TDI or FLI benefits and may determine the order in which they are received. However, the new law states that employees cannot receive more than one kind of paid leave simultaneously during any period of time.

Employers will now have several onerous compliance burdens. New employers (those between 15-29 employees) must now take on the NJFLA administrative duties, including keeping track of employee hours worked and leave earned.

These changes are set to take effect on or around 7.15.2026.

You can read the new law HERE.