Paid Leave Oregon website launches – KTVZ

SALEM, Ore. (KTVZ) – Paid Depart Oregon’s web site is now on-line at paidleave.oregon.gov.

Paid Depart Oregon is a brand new program that permits workers to take paid day off for a few of life’s most essential moments. It covers depart for the start or adoption of a kid, for severe sickness or harm, for taking good care of a critically in poor health member of the family, and for home violence, sexual assault, stalking or harassment.

Beginning Jan. 1, 2023, most workers and enormous employers in Oregon will start paying contributions towards paid depart. Staff can pay 60 p.c, and enormous employers can pay 40 p.c of the 1 p.c contribution fee. For instance, if an worker makes $1,000, the worker can pay $6 and the employer can pay $4. Small employers with lower than 25 workers are usually not required to make funds.

Paid depart contributions will go right into a belief fund, which in flip, will present the income for workers’ paid depart advantages beginning Sept. 3, 2023.  

Details about advantages, contributions and extra is on the brand new web site at paidleave.oregon.gov:

• Data for employers, workers and self-employed folks
• Continuously requested questions
• Guidelines on how this system will work
• Program assets and reality sheets 
• A “Get Concerned” part with:
  • A calendar itemizing upcoming engagement alternatives
  • A request portal for the Paid Depart staff to current to your small business or group
  • A contact kind, the place anybody can submit questions and obtain a response inside two enterprise days. We encourage employers, workers and the general public to make use of this manner to contact us with questions.

The brand new website additionally has Google translate options, is extra accessible, and is mobile-friendly.

This winter, the web site will relaunch in 11 languages with interactive instruments for employers and workers, akin to a advantages calculator.