Sponsored by:
Assemblyman BOB ANDRZEJCZAK
District 1 (Atlantic, Cape May and Cumberland)
Assemblyman WAYNE P. DEANGELO
District 14 (Mercer and Middlesex)
SYNOPSIS
Reinstates State sick leave injury program 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 certain State employees 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 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, with the exception of a State employee who is a member of 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.), 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.
(cf: P.L.2010, c.3, s.6)
2. This act shall take effect immediately.
STATEMENT
This bill reinstates the State's sick leave injury program for State employees who are members of the Police and Firemen's Retirement System or the State Police Retirement System, predominantly corrections officers and troopers. P.L.2010, c.3 provides that the State's sick leave program will not apply to any career, senior executive or unclassified employee in State service who sustains an injury or illness on or after its effective date of May 21, 2010, 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 bill revives the sick leave injury program with limited application to these State employees.