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Article: Senate says no to paid family leave.(Legislature)(Lingering questions and a rush to adjourn do in majority Democrats' efforts to fund a safety net for workers)
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- The Register Guard (Eugene, OR)
- Article date:
- June 28, 2007
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Byline: David Steves The Register-Guard
SALEM - The Senate killed a bill Wednesday that would have created paid family leave, one of the few defeats for Democrats who enjoy a huge majority there.
The bill would have collected a penny per hour worked from each worker whose employer has at least 24 employees. The money would have been pooled by the state and then paid out at $250 a week for up to six weeks for those workers who took time off under Oregon's Family Leave Act to care for a new child or ailing family member.
The bill's defeat was one of the few surprises on a day when lawmakers followed a script to dispatch with the remaining two ...