NJ Transit

Newark, NJ

documented benefits (3)

No experience needed	Bus Operator: you qualify for the training programme at 21 or older, with fewer than five points on your driving record and either a non-provisional NJ driver's licence held for the last three years, an NJ CDL permit, or a full CDL from NJ, NY or PA. No high school diploma requirement is stated and no CDL is needed - NJ Transit will help you get the permit. RESIDENCY: NJ Transit adheres to the NJ First Act, New Jersey's residency requirement for public employees.
Paid training	NJ Transit fully trains and certifies every bus operator in-house, including helping candidates who have no CDL permit obtain one. Signing bonus scales inversely with what you bring: up to $6,000 with a full CDL, up to $3,000 with only a permit, and still up to $3,000 if NJ Transit has to get you the permit. No repayment or clawback clause is published.
Pension	Bus Operators get a pension plan plus a 457 tax-deferred savings plan, and continued medical benefits after meeting full retirement eligibility - retiree healthcare being the rarer half of that. NJ Transit does not publish the plan name or formula on the recruitment page; most NJ Transit staff are in New Jersey's Public Employees' Retirement System.

the legal floor where they are

Set by law, not by NJ Transit. It applies to every employer in Newark, NJ.

IVF cycles the state covers	THERE IS NO FEDERAL MANDATE. No US law requires an employer health plan to cover IVF or any infertility treatment, so coverage comes either from the insurance mandate in the state where the plan is written or from the employer's own choice. And the state mandates reach less far than they look: they bind fully insured plans bought from a state-regulated carrier, while a self-funded employer plan is governed federally under ERISA and is preempted from state insurance regulation. KFF's 2025 employer survey puts 67% of covered workers in a self-funded plan, and 80% of those at firms of 200 or more — so at the size of employer this site mostly covers, the state mandate usually does not apply, and any fertility benefit is a genuine company choice rather than a restatement of law. That is precisely why it belongs on a benefits page here. Perks has not yet read this employer's own state insurance mandate from an official source; the states that have been read carry their own entry. (No federal statute requires an employer health plan to cover infertility treatment or IVF. The Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 (ERISA) preempts state insurance regulation as applied to self-funded employer plans, which is why a state mandate does not reach them.)
Adoption leave the law gives	12 workweeks of UNPAID job-protected leave in any 12-month period on the placement of a child for adoption or foster care, and only for employees who meet the FMLA eligibility test. There is no federal paid adoption leave. (Family and Medical Leave Act of 1993, 29 U.S.C. 2612(a)(1)(B) and 2612(c); eligibility at 29 U.S.C. 2611(2) and (4). Quoted from the 2023 edition of the US Code.)
Pay when you are ill	No federal law requires any paid sick leave. The FLSA does not require payment for time not worked, and the FMLA gives 12 workweeks of UNPAID job-protected leave in any 12-month period for a serious health condition, and only for employees who meet the FMLA eligibility test. Any paid sick time comes from a state or city law, or from the employer's own choice. (Fair Labor Standards Act, per the Department of Labor's statement on payment for time not worked; Family and Medical Leave Act of 1993, 29 U.S.C. 2612(a)(1)(D) and 2612(c). Quoted from the 2023 edition of the US Code on govinfo.gov.)

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