Establishes additional manner of employer compliance to provide earned sick leave for certain employees subject to collective bargaining agreements.
S 3249 creates an alternative way for employers to meet New Jersey's earned sick leave requirements for unionized employees. Instead of providing separate sick leave, employers can offer a paid time off (PTO) plan of at least 40 hours per benefit year (which employees can use for sick leave purposes) to workers covered by collective bargaining agreements. This provision applies only to unionized employees, not all workers, and is retroactive to the 2018 effective date of the original earned sick leave law.
Bill status
in committee
1 of 4 stages cleared
Introduction
May 2024
Committee Review
Floor Vote
Governor
Introduced May 16, 2024
Last action Jun 2, 2025
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What changed between versions
Reprint SLA 5/12/25 1R
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Reprint Senate 6/2/25 2R
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3 edits
MINOR
The bill moved from a Senate Labor Committee report (First Reprint) to full Senate passage (Second Reprint). The key substantive change is a new paragraph 2 that limits the amendment's applicability, ensuring it does not extend earned sick leave protections to employees who are already excluded under the original law (P.L.2018, c.10). Remaining changes are formatting and line-break adjustments.
SCOPE
A new paragraph 2 was added stating that the amendment's provisions shall not apply to any employee to whom the original earned sick leave law (P.L.2018, c.10) does not already apply pursuant to its section 1. This prevents the amendment from inadvertently expanding coverage to workers or employers who were originally exempt.
TECHNICAL
Section e. text was reformatted with different line breaks but the substantive content remains unchanged.
Version header updated from 'As reported by the Senate Labor Committee on May 12, 2025, with amendments' to 'As amended by the Senate on June 2, 2025,' reflecting full Senate passage.
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Total actions
3
Key actions
2
Committee
1
Amendments
1
Jun 2, 2025
Upper · Passed
Senate Amendment (Voice) (Ruiz)
upper
May 12, 2025
Upper · Passed
Reported out of Senate Committee with Amendments, 2nd Reading
upper
May 16, 2024
Introduced
Introduced in the Senate, Referred to Senate Labor Committee
upper
2 primary · 1 co-sponsor
Sponsors
Role
Legislator
Party
State
District
P
Gordon Johnson
DDemocratic
P
Tony Bucco
RRepublican
Co
Doug Steinhardt
RRepublican
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