Oregon Governor Kate Brown recently signed Senate Bill 299 into
law, which makes some clarifications and changes to Oregon's
Paid Sick Time law, which took effect on January 1, 2016.
Foremost among the changes was the addition of language in the
statute that permits employers to limit the accrual of paid or
unpaid sick time of their employees to 40 hours per year.
Previously, the statute only allowed employers to limit to 40 hours
carryover of sick hours from one year to the next, but was
ambiguous as to whether employers could otherwise limit sick time
accrual within a single year. This change brings greater
clarity to the law and its application for employers following the
"accrual" method of calculating time for their
employees. Employees are still capable of having a maximum
bank of 80 hours if they have 40 hours of carryover from a prior
year, and 40 hours accrued within the current year.
