Caregiving
Workers can use their Earned Sick Leave or take Family Leave Insurance to care for a seriously ill loved one. The difference is usually the duration of the caregiving needs. If it’s short term you usually Earned Sick Leave and your employer pays you directly for long-term leave, you use Family Leave Insurance and you apply to receive benefits from the state.
For information about Earned Sick Leave and access to those materials visit https://mysickdays.nj.gov/
And the new handout regarding taking Family Leave Insurance for caregiving, see below and download it here.:
Caregiving is essential to our economy and the livelihoods of our families, from learning how to care for a newborn to caring for our aging loved or disabled community members. We all have people we love whom we would do anything for. We’ve made promises to those people, like being there for them when they need us most.
Below, you can find different resources that delve into New Jersey caregiving policies:
A 15-minute clip taken from the New Jersey Paid Leave Outreach Collaborative’s Convening on Paid Leave & Caregiving. Rebecca Glinn from the New Jersey Department of Labor goes over New Jersey’s Paid Family and Medical Leave programs, NJ’s inclusive family definition, employer coverage requirements, employee eligibility requirements, taking intermittent leave, job protection laws, the intersection of earned sick leave & caregiving, as well as a Q&A session.
A copy of the NJ Department of Labor Presentation (Rebecca Glinn goes over this in the previous video) which goes over everything caregivers need to know when taking leave.
Information regarding cash benefits in NJ and taking leave to care for a loved one. You can also learn more at https://myleavebenefits.nj.gov/
