N.J. Admin. Code § 12:70-1.2
The following words and terms, when used in this chapter, shall have the following meanings unless the context clearly indicates otherwise:
"Act" means P.L. 2020, c. 9.
"Commissioner" means the Commissioner of the Department of Labor and Workforce Development, or his or her designee.
"Department" means the Department of Labor and Workforce Development.
"Employ" means to suffer or permit to work.
"Employee" includes any individual employed by an employer.
"Employer" includes any individual, partnership, association, corporation, and the State and any county, municipality, or school district in the State, or any agency, authority, department, bureau, or instrumentality thereof, or any person, or group of persons, acting directly or indirectly in the interest of an employer in relation to an employee.
"Infectious disease" means "infectious disease" as that term is defined at N.J.S.A. 26:13-2.
"Medical professional licensed in New Jersey" means a physician, physician assistant, advanced practice nurse, or registered nurse who is appropriately licensed by the State of New Jersey.
"Protected leave" means leave from work taken by an employee during the Public Health Emergency and State of Emergency declared by Governor Murphy in Executive Order No. 103 (2020) concerning the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic, based on the written or electronically transmitted recommendation of a medical professional licensed in New Jersey that the employee take that time off for a specified period of time because the employee has, or is likely to have, an infectious disease that may infect others at the employee's workplace.
N.J. Admin. Code § 12:70-1.2