N.J. lawmakers to again consider barring comp for undocumented workers

New Jersey lawmakers are once more contemplating a invoice that will block many undocumented immigrants from receiving employees compensation and momentary incapacity advantages.

S.B. 1521, launched Tuesday and despatched to the Senate Labor Committee, states that sure non-citizens who’re within the U.S. with out lawful standing can be ineligible for wage-replacement advantages usually accessible to injured employees underneath state employees compensation regulation and to staff who’re briefly disabled and unable to work.

The invoice would pertain to “staff who’re aliens until they have been lawfully admitted for everlasting residence on the time the employment was carried out, have been lawfully current for the aim of performing the employment, or in any other case have been completely residing in america underneath shade of regulation on the time the employment was carried out.”

Comparable and unsuccessful proposals in previous periods explicitly barred undocumented immigrants from accumulating momentary incapacity advantages underneath state regulation and would have carved out eligibility from statutes that in any other case cowl most employees, no matter immigration standing.

The latest measure would amend present statutes so as to add immigration standing as a think about figuring out eligibility for these advantages.