New Jersey Administrative Code
Title 10 - HUMAN SERVICES
Chapter 90 - WORK FIRST NEW JERSEY PROGRAM
Subchapter 4 - WFNJ WORK REQUIREMENTS
Section 10:90-4.11 - Good cause

1. The mandatory WFNJ participant is certified by DFD to be physically or mentally unable to engage in an assigned WFNJ work requirement or to cooperate with a WFNJ program requirement;

2. The conditions of employment are a risk to the WFNJ individual's health and safety (subject to review and determination by the Division of Family Development);

3. Child care is needed and not available. (See 10:90-5.2, Supportive services, child care); or

4. The mandatory WFNJ participant is unable to engage in an assigned WFNJ work requirement or to cooperate with a WFNJ program requirement due to family violence. If noncompliance relates to family violence, the FVO Initiative procedures are to be followed (see N.J.A.C. 10:90-20).

1. WFNJ participants shall be temporarily excused from participation if the WFNJ activity for which they are scheduled, as set forth in the IRP, is not available. Excused participation is to be reviewed once every week up to once every month, depending on the circumstances surrounding the reason for the excused participation.

2. Absence from a particular day of employment or a WFNJ activity scheduled session shall be considered temporarily excused participation under the following circumstances (when the participant has notified his or her employer or an appropriate person at the work activity of the need for an absence from a particular day or appropriate documentation is provided):