Oregon Sick Child Public Health Emergency

Covered Employers: Employers with 25 or more employees in Oregon each working day during 20 or more calendar work weeks in the current or preceding calendar year.

Employee Eligibility: Employee must have worked for employer at least 180 days immediately prior to leave and at least 25 hours per week.

Entitlement: The state of Oregon allows an employee to take the 12 weeks of leave available to them under Oregon Sick Child leave available for a new leave reason as well: school closures and childcare unavailability due to COVID-19. This expansion was originally effective from March 18, 2020 through September 13, 2020, but has been made permanent.

12 weeks of leave in a one year period for a child's non-serious illness, injury, or other condition that requires homecare except, employers do not have to grant leave to care for a child's minor illness when another family member is available to care for the child .
An employee who has already taken 12 weeks of bonding leave under OFLA may take an additional 12 weeks of leave under this policy.

Paid? No. However, the employee or employer may choose to have the employee's family leave run concurrently with any other paid or unpaid leave. If the employee works for a company with fewer than 500 employees, they may have access to paid leave through Federal Paid Sick Leave and Federal FMLA Public Health Emergency.

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