43:21-39.3 - Payment of benefits for period of family temporary disability leave, birth or adoption of child
43:21-39.3 Payment of benefits for period of family temporary disability leave, birth or adoption of child.
12. a. All of the disability benefits paid to a covered individual during a period of family temporary disability leave with respect to any one birth or adoption shall be for a single continuous period of time, except that the employer of the covered individual may permit the covered individual to receive the disability benefits during non-consecutive weeks in a manner mutually agreed to by the employer and the covered individual and disclosed to the division by the employer.
b.The covered individual shall provide the employer with notice of the period of family temporary disability leave with respect to birth or adoption not less than 30 days before the leave commences, unless it commences while the individual is receiving unemployment benefits, in which case the covered individual shall notify the division. The amount of benefits shall be reduced by two weeks worth of benefits if the individual does not provide notice to an employer as required by this subsection b., unless the time of the leave is unforeseeable or the time of the leave changes for unforeseeable reasons.
c.Family temporary disability leave taken because of the birth or placement for adoption of a child may be taken at any time within a year after the date of the birth or placement for adoption.
L.2008, c.17, s.12.