The COVID Project
The record
- Jurisdiction
- New Jersey; Legislature (enforced by the Commissioner of Labor and Workforce Development) · New Jersey
- Level
- State
- Authority
- P.L. 2020, c. 9
- Issued
- 2020-03-20 Mar. 20, 2020
- Effective
- 2020-03-20 (§ 3: 'This act shall take effect immediately') (read as 2020-03-20)
- End
- Operative 'during the Public Health Emergency and State of Emergency declared by the Governor in Executive Order 103 of 2020'; the public health emergency ended June 4, 2021 (P.L. 2021, c. 103) while the state of emergency continued through 2021 Q3 and after (read as 2021-09-30)
- In force
- Mar. 20, 2020 to Sept. 30, 2021
- Quarters
- 2020 Q22020 Q32020 Q42021 Q12021 Q22021 Q3
2020 Q22020 Q32020 Q42021 Q12021 Q22021 Q3
- Limitation types
- Workplace rulesQuarantine and isolation
- Addressees
- every New Jersey employer
- Functions reached
- WF workforce availability (protected absence of ill or exposed employees)
- HR discipline and reinstatement
- OP staffing
- Collection
- State labor and workplace-safety agencies AGY-ST-LABOR-WORKPLACE
Operative words
1. An employer shall not, during the Public Health Emergency and State of Emergency declared by the Governor in Executive Order 103 of 2020 concerning the coronavirus disease 2019 pandemic, terminate or otherwise penalize an employee if the employee requests or takes time off from work based on the written or electronically transmitted recommendation of a medical professional licensed in New Jersey that the employee take that time off for a specified period of time because the employee has, or is likely to have, an infectious disease...
Enforcement
N.J.S.A. 34:11D-13: complaint to the Commissioner of Labor and Workforce Development or civil action; reinstatement ordered; $2,500 civil penalty per violation
Notes
Every industry statewide; companion to EO 192 (NJ-036) and to P.L. 2020, c. 17 (Ex. 006).