Washington, D.C., December 11, 2024 – The ERISA Industry Committee (“ERIC”) last week submitted public comments on regulatory changes outlined in “Paid Leave Oregon – Batch 12 – Amending and Adopting Paid Leave Benefits, Confidentiality, and Self-Employed Rules” (“Proposed Rules”). The proposed changes were issued by the Oregon Employment Department (“Department”) and cover implementation and administration of the Paid Leave Oregon program.
In its public comment, ERIC praised the Department for integrating an administrative recommendation that ERIC offered in 2023 to share claim information about the frequency of leave and potential weekly amounts with employers. The change will provide employers comprehensive information that they need to voluntarily “top off” the paid leave wage replacement that their employees receive via supplemental private benefit plans.
“While ERIC member companies already offer a wide range of high quality, cost-efficient paid leave benefits to their Oregon workforces, provisions in the original Proposed Rules needlessly limited the information that employers were able to receive and hampered their ability to coordinate and improve benefits,” said Dillon Clair, Director of State Advocacy. “We are pleased that the Department worked with the employer community and included meaningful disclosure changes that will allow employers to better assist affected employees with their paid leave needs.”
ERIC is a national advocacy organization exclusively representing the largest employers in the United States in their capacity as sponsors of employee benefit plans for their nationwide workforces. With member companies that are leaders in every economic sector, ERIC is the voice of large employer plan sponsors on federal, state, and local public policies impacting their ability to sponsor benefit plans. ERIC member companies offer benefits to tens of millions of employees and their families, located in every state and city across the country.
The full text of ERIC’s comments can be found here