Protected Sick Time
Requirement for Portland Employers

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If you are a Portland area employer, you will be required to begin accruing sick leave for your employees beginning Jan. 1, 2014.

This requirement will apply to all businesses within the Portland City limits and/or employers with employees who work in Portland for a total of 240 hours or more during the year.

Employees will begin accruing paid or unpaid sick leave on Jan. 1, 2014 or on the first day of employment after that date. Those employees are not eligible to take the time they’ve accrued until they have worked for their employer for 240 hours and 90 days, unless allowed sooner by the employer.

Full- and part-time employees accrue one hour of unpaid (5 or fewer employees) or paid (6 or more employees) sick time for every 30 hours worked, up to at least 40 hours per year. This is a minimum floor and employers can allow more than 40 hours.

The employer must track employees’ accrual and usage of sick days and keep records in a manner consistent with current standards regarding employment records under state law.

Employees who have earned sick time may use it for issues related to their own health, to care for the health of a family member, or to address issues caused by domestic violence, sexual harassment, assault or stalking. Sick time may be used in increments of one hour or greater, unless your employer allows for smaller time increments. Sick time may be used to cover all or part of a shift.

If an employer already allows employees to accrue 40 or more hours of Paid Sick Time, Paid Time Off (PTO) or paid vacation days per year, which can be used without notice for the sick leave purposes in the new ordinance, then their existing policy already meets the minimum requirement and the new law will not require any changes to it.

For more information about Portland protected sick leave, please visit:
http://www.portlandoregon.gov/sicktime/

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