Assemblyman CHARLES MAINOR
District 31 (Hudson)
Assemblyman NELSON T. ALBANO
District 1 (Atlantic, Cape May and Cumberland)
Assemblyman GORDON M. JOHNSON
District 37 (Bergen)
Co-Sponsored by:
Assemblyman Wimberly, Assemblywoman Sumter and Assemblyman S.Connors
SYNOPSIS
Provides for sick leave injury program of 30 days for State employees who are members of PFRS or SPRS.
CURRENT VERSION OF TEXT
As introduced.
An Act concerning a sick leave injury program for State employees who are members of the Police and Firemen's Retirement System or the State Police Retirement System, and amending N.J.S.11A:6-8.
Be It Enacted by the Senate and General Assembly of the State of New Jersey:
1. N.J.S.11A:6-8 is amended to read as follows:
11A:6-8. Sick leave injury in State service. a. Leaves of absence for career, senior executive and unclassified employees in State service due to injury or illness directly caused by and arising from State employment shall be governed by rules of the Civil Service Commission. Leaves of absence for career and unclassified employees of a political subdivision directly caused by or arising from employment shall be governed by rules of the political subdivision. Any sick leave with pay shall be reduced by the amount of workers' compensation or disability benefits, if any, received for the same injury or illness.
b. The rules promulgated by the commission to govern leaves of absence under subsection a. of this section shall not apply, nor shall a leave of absence pursuant to this section be available, to any career, senior executive or unclassified employee in State service who sustains an injury or illness on or after the effective date of P.L.2010, c.3, or the expiration of a collective negotiations agreement with a relevant provision in effect on that effective date, directly caused by and arising from State employment. This subsection shall not be construed as impairing the obligations set forth in any collective negotiations agreement between the State and its employees in effect on the effective date of P.L.2010, c.3.
c. Leaves of absence due to injury or illness incurred on or after the effective date of P.L. , c. (pending before the Legislature as this bill) and directly caused by and arising from State employment for employees in State service who are enrolled in the Police and Firemen's Retirement System, P.L.1944, c.255 (C.43:16A-1 et seq.), or the State Police Retirement System, P.L.1965, c.89 (C.53:5A-1 et seq.) shall be governed by rules of the Civil Service Commission. The rules shall provide for a leave of absence with pay for a period up to 30 days, and shall require an examining physician designated and compensated by the appointing authority to certify to such injury or illness. Any sick leave with pay shall be reduced by the amount of workers' compensation or disability benefits, if any, received for the same injury or illness.
(cf: P.L.2010, c.3, s.6)
2. This act shall take effect on the 60th day following enactment, but the Civil Service Commission and the Chairperson thereof may take such anticipatory administrative action in advance as shall be necessary for the implementation of this act.
STATEMENT
This bill provides for a sick leave injury program for State employees who are members of the Police and Firemen's Retirement System (PFRS) or the State Police Retirement System (SPRS), predominantly corrections officers and troopers.
A change in the law enacted in 2010 ended the sick leave injury program for career, senior executive, and unclassified employees in State service who sustain an injury or illness on or after the effective date of May 21, 2010, or the expiration of a collective negotiations agreement with a relevant provision in effect on that effective date, when the injury or illness was directly caused by and arising from State employment. That program had provided for leaves of absence with pay during a period up to one year beginning on the initial date of the injury or illness.
This bill reinstates a sick leave injury program to provide paid leave for a maximum of 30 days for members of the PFRS and SPRS who are State employees.