Covid 19 Coronavirus

On April 1, 2020, the Families First Paid Emergency Sick Leave Act Law became law. The Act provides sick time to employees who are unable to work due to Covid 19 related illness. Learn more about your Sick Leave rights and your rights under the New Jersey Workers Compensation law if you or your family member gets sick with Covid 19.

In September 2020, New Jersey Governor Phil Murphy signed into law legislation that created a rebuttable presumption for “essential workers” that if they get sick with Covid-19 (also known as Coronavirus) that the Covid-19 was acquired at work. Before this new law, an essential worker would have to prove that they acquired the Coronavirus was contracted at work. Since the virus travels through the air and does not immediately show symptoms of infection, it would be difficult, if not impossible to establish without extensive and expensive litigation that the virus was acquired at work.
To learn more about the NJ Essential Workers Legislation and the Sick Leave Act by reading more at NJAccident.com

The Legislation provides a presumption that if an essential worker contracts Covid 19 that there shall be a rebuttable presumption that the contraction of the disease is work-related and fully compensable under the New Jersey Workers Compensation Act and the State Ordinary and Accidental Disability Law. The prima facie presumption may however be rebutted by a preponderance of the evidence showing that the workers were not exposed to the disease while working in the place of employment.

New Jersey Governor Phil Murphy issued an Executive Order in March which made grocery stores, delivery personnel, and others, Essential Workers which required them to continue working at their jobs.  For Grocery workers and delivery personnel having a job was good news because many of their friends and neighbors were being laid off because of […]