"[M]ost employers with 10 or more employees in Oregon [will be required] to provide employees with up to 40 hours per year of paid sick leave.... Oregon employers with fewer than 10 employees (or six in Portland) will be required to provide up to 40 hours per year of unpaid sick leave. The new sick leave law applies to virtually all people working in the state: full-time and part-time hourly, salaried, commissioned and piece-rate employees, as well as home care employees who provide hourly or live-in care to the elderly or disabled and who receive money from the Oregon Department of Human Services. Only independent contractors, employees who receive paid sick leave under federal law, participants in certain work-training or work-study programs, and children employed by their parents, are excluded from coverage."  MORE >>