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Committee hears omnibus Paid Leave bill giving BOLI oversight and adding airline crew exception
Summary
Senate Bill 69 (dash‑2 amendment) would make administrative and technical changes to Paid Leave Oregon and OFLA, shift some oversight to the Bureau of Labor and Industries (BOLI), and create a limited OFLA exception for airline flight crew employees subject to federal hours‑of‑service rules.
Senate Bill 69, with a dash‑2 amendment, received a public hearing on Jan. 28, 2025. The amendment replaces the underlying measure and makes administrative and technical modifications to Paid Leave Oregon and the Oregon Family Leave Act (OFLA). The bill also creates an exception to OFLA eligibility for employees based in Oregon who are subject to federal regulations as airline flight crew and who meet the federal hours‑of‑service requirements; that section would become operative Jan. 1, 2026.
Karen Hummelbaugh, director for Paid Leave Oregon at the Employment Department, told the committee the dash‑2 changes move rulemaking and administrative oversight for specified job‑protection, retaliation and administrative provisions within Paid Leave Oregon to the Bureau of Labor and Industries (BOLI). "We do not have any concerns with Senate Bill 69 with those -two amendments," Hummelbaugh said.
Josh Nasby of BOLI described two technical fixes in sections 3 and 10 to ensure the tolling of statutes of limitations and both administrative appeal processes are referenced correctly; he also said BOLI added clarifying language to the airline flight crew provision to require that affected employees also meet the federal hours requirement. Worker and employer representatives testified in support. Paloma Sparks of Oregon Business and Industry and Katie Tyson of the Oregon AFL‑CIO said the product of a bipartisan work group was a careful set of technical fixes intended to keep Paid Leave Oregon and OFLA functioning. Both spoke in support of BOLI having rulemaking authority for job‑protection and retaliation provisions.
The committee closed the public hearing on SB 69 and set the bill for a work session on Thursday. Witnesses asked the committee to notify the record if additional technical issues related to airline crew language arise; staff indicated they would schedule additional testimony only if necessary.
