A bill would raise the maximum weekly benefit for temporary disability and family leave by more than $200, helping people who make roughly $60,000 to $73,700.
A significant expansion of paid family leave appears likely to be approved. It could bring with a $360 million payroll tax hike for middle-class workers.
The Senate is set to give final legislative approval to a plan to expand New Jersey’s paid family leave – more time off, with more pay, for more reasons.
Democratic legislative leaders say more people would take paid family leave if the benefit was bigger. But they lack consensus yet on the path forward.