Bill Text: NJ A5110 | 2016-2017 | Regular Session | Introduced
Bill Title: Requires employers to maintain health insurance benefits for employees during certain labor disputes.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 2-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2017-07-13 - Introduced, Referred to Assembly Labor Committee [A5110 Detail]
Download: New_Jersey-2016-A5110-Introduced.html
Sponsored by:
Assemblywoman JOANN DOWNEY
District 11 (Monmouth)
Assemblyman ERIC HOUGHTALING
District 11 (Monmouth)
SYNOPSIS
Requires employers to maintain health insurance benefits for employees during certain labor disputes.
CURRENT VERSION OF TEXT
As introduced.
An Act concerning health insurance benefits and certain labor disputes 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. An employer that provides a health benefits plan to its employees in this State shall continue to provide coverage for its employees for a period of 60 days following a stoppage of work which exists because of a labor dispute at the factory, establishment, or other premises at which the employee is or was last employed if it is shown that the employee has been prevented from working by the employer, even though the employee's recognized or certified majority representative has directed the employees in the collective bargaining unit to work under the preexisting terms and conditions of employment, and the employees had not engaged in a strike immediately before being prevented from working.
b. As used in this act:
"Carrier" means an entity that contracts or offers to contract to provide, deliver, arrange for, pay for, or reimburse any of the costs of health care services under a health benefits plan, including: an insurance company authorized to issue health benefits plans; a health maintenance organization; a health, hospital, or medical service corporation; a multiple employer welfare arrangement; an entity providing or administering a self-funded health benefits plan; an entity under contract with the State Health Benefits Program and the School Employees' Health Benefits Program to administer a health benefits plan; or any other entity providing a health benefits plan.
"Health benefits plan" means a benefits plan which pays or provides hospital and medical expense benefits for covered services, and is delivered or issued for delivery in this State by or through a carrier.
2. This act shall take effect immediately.
STATEMENT
This bill requires employers to maintain health insurance benefits for employees during certain labor disputes.
The bill requires employers that provide health benefits plans to their employees to continue to provide coverage for employees for a period of 60 days following a stoppage of work which exists because of a labor dispute at the factory, establishment, or other premises at which the employee is or was last employed if it is shown that the employee has been prevented from working by the employer, even though the employee's recognized or certified majority representative has directed the employees in the collective bargaining unit to work under the preexisting terms and conditions of employment, and the employees had not engaged in a strike immediately before being prevented from working.
