SALEM â Oregon says it wonât be ready to start providing paid family and medical leave benefits by a January 2023 deadline and has asked lawmakers to delay the rollout of the stateâs long-anticipated program.
A bill introduced in the Oregon House on Tuesday, May 4, on behalf of the Oregon Employment Department would give the state agency until September 2022 to adopt rules to establish the program and would defer the date when employers must begin paying into the program until January 2023 â delaying both deadlines by a full year.
If the bill is adopted, Oregon workers would not start seeing benefits through the new program until September 2023, eight months after the program is currently supposed to go into effect.
With House bills 2379 and 2598, Rep. Paul Holvey is proposing to make housing more expensive by adding taxes to the wood products industry that already pays 50% more in state and local tax burden than other businesses.
It is important to first state that taxes on business are paid for in the price of the products and services they sell. A recent front-page article from The Register-Guard focused on the difficulty of rebuilding from the devastating wildfires as lumber prices are reaching new highs.
A study by Big Four accounting firm Ernst and Young for Oregon Business and Industry released in October shows Oregon is moving from a low-tax state for business to a high-tax state. The study shows the taxes added on business in the 2019 legislative session moved Oregon from No. 40 in business tax burden to No. 19, ahead of most western states.
Oregon wants to delay rollout of paid family and medical leave program
Updated May 06, 2021;
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Oregon says it won’t be ready to start providing paid family and medical leave benefits by a January 2023 deadline and has asked lawmakers to delay the rollout of the state’s long-anticipated program.
A bill introduced in the Oregon House on Tuesday on behalf of the Employment Department would give the state agency until September 2022 to adopt rules to establish the program and would defer the date when employers must begin paying into the program until January 2023 – delaying both deadlines by a full year.
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Accommodating Anxiety & Other Mental Illnesses in the Workplace
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Mental health issues can also implicate employers’ legal obligations under both the Americans with Disabilities Act and the Family and Medical Leave Act. Many employers are aware of their responsibility to identify physical limitations and engage in the interactive process to accommodate their employees, but with mental and cognitive issues being so unpredictable and largely inconspicuous, employers face unique challenges recognizing and accommodating mental issues that qualify as a disability, and this is particularly true in Oregon.