Article: Legislature wrestles with paid leave bill

Article: New Jersey Paid Leave Makes ...
Business Wire;  March 4, 2008 ;     700+ words ... ... arguing that requiring paid leave would harm New Jersey businesses. Critics ... bill provides for paid leave by expanding New Jersey's Temporary Disability ... estimates that 38,000 New Jersey workers would take paid leave each year. If you ...

Article: Ballard Spahr Lawyers Issue Alert About New Jersey ...
Business Wire;  May 2, 2008 ;     628 words ... ... written the following alert. Today, New Jersey employers have new requirements ... that provides up to six weeks of paid leave to care for a new child or a seriously ... or private employer subject to New Jersey's unemployment compensation law ...

Article: New Jersey's Paid Leave Plan Pleases ...
Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News;  January 15, 2004 ;     700+ words ... ... out shopping with her 15-month-old son and looking ahead to the day when she'll go back to the office, called the paid leave a "wonderful idea," and agreed it should be restricted to tending to kids. Otherwise, she said, the benefit could be ...

Article: Food and Commercial Workers Urge New Jersey Senate ...
Business Wire;  June 20, 2007 ;     686 words ... ... establish a paid Family Medical Leave Act for the state of New Jersey. Time off would be granted from employment under the proposed ... 1360 & RW108 represent more than 70,000 workers in New Jersey. The UFCW was part of a broad coalition that fought for passage ...

Article: New Jersey Legislature Passes Law Providing Six ...
Mondaq Business Briefing;  April 10, 2008 ;     700+ words ... ... higher. Under the New Jersey law, the employer ... other fully-paid" leave provided by the ... any such fully-paid leave provided by the ... employer-provided paid leave, then the employee ... FMLA") and the New Jersey Family Leave Act ...

Article: Paid leave approved in New Jersey: ...
Employee Benefit News;  June 15, 2008 ;     700+ words ... ... Leave Law, making New Jersey the third state ... to guarantee paid leave for family members ... family member. New Jersey's new law allows up to six week of paid leave. It covers all ... subject to the New Jersey unemployment compensation ...

Article: ASSEMBLY REPUBLICAN WHIP BRAMNICK: GOV. CORZINE SIGNING ...
US Fed News Service, Including US State News;  May 2, 2008 ;     528 words ... ... take up to six weeks of paid leave after obtaining a signed ... Bramnick noted that New Jersey has lost 10,400 jobs ... costs imposed by the paid leave program. He said this ... to find employment in New Jersey. "At a time when the ...