Bill Text: NJ A4621 | 2024-2025 | Regular Session | Amended

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Bill Title: Requires employer to disclose information concerning leave eligibility in hiring package.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 2-0)

Status: (Introduced) 2024-09-19 - Reported out of Asm. Comm. with Amendments, and Referred to Assembly State and Local Government Committee [A4621 Detail]

Download: New_Jersey-2024-A4621-Amended.html

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[First Reprint]

ASSEMBLY, No. 4621

STATE OF NEW JERSEY

221st LEGISLATURE

 

INTRODUCED JUNE 24, 2024

 

 

Sponsored by:

Assemblywoman  ANNETTE QUIJANO

District 20 (Union)

Assemblyman  WILLIAM B. SAMPSON, IV

District 31 (Hudson)

 

 

 

 

SYNOPSIS

     Requires employer to disclose information concerning leave eligibility in hiring package.

 

CURRENT VERSION OF TEXT

     As reported by the Assembly Labor Committee on September 19, 2024, with amendments.

  

An Act concerning leave eligibility and supplementing Title 34 of the Revised Statutes.

 

     Be It Enacted by the Senate and General Assembly of the State of New Jersey:

 

      1.   a.  At the time that an employer makes an offer of employment to an applicant, the employer shall disclose, in writing, information concerning the applicant's eligibility for leave under the "Family Leave Act," P.L.1989, c.261 (C.34:11B-1 et seq.), the federal "Family and Medical Leave Act of 1993," Pub.L.103-3 (29 U.S.C. s.2601 et seq.), family temporary disability leave benefits under P.L.2008, c.17 (C.43:21-39.1 et al.), the "New Jersey Security and Financial Empowerment Act," P.L.2013, c.82 (C.34:11C-1 et seq.), and temporary disability benefits under the "Temporary Disability Benefits Law," P.L.1948, c.110 (C.43:21-25 et al.).  A disclosure through email or by distribution of paper by mail or in person shall constitute disclosure in writing in accordance with this subsection.

      b.   If an applicant will not be eligible as an employee of the employer for any of the leave or benefits ¹[provided]¹ for ¹which disclosure is required¹ in ¹accordance with¹ this section, the employer shall notify the applicant of the applicant's ineligibility for each type of leave or benefit for which the applicant will be ineligible to use as an employee of the employer, and the reason for the applicant's ineligibility.  As part of the disclosure required by this section, the employer shall provide information to the applicant on how to access the webpage concerning employee leave and benefits that the Department of Labor and Workforce Development is required to maintain by section 1 of P.L.2015, c.248 (C.34:1A-1.15).

     c.     An employer that fails to provide the information required by this section shall be subject to a civil penalty of not more than $500 per violation, collectible by the Commissioner of Labor and Workforce Development in a summary proceeding pursuant to the "Penalty Enforcement Law of 1999," P.L.1999, c.274 (C.2A:58-10 et seq.).  Each failure to disclosure the information required by this section to an applicant shall constitute one violation.

 

     2.    This act shall take effect on the first day of the second month next following the date of enactment.