OAR 471-070-1420: Benefits: Leave Periods and Increments

(1) A claimant may request family, medical, or safe leave provided under ORS chapter 657B in either consecutive or intermittent periods of leave. (2) Notwithstanding section (1) of this rule, a claimant may take pre-placement leave only on an intermittent basis. (3) Leave may be taken, and benefits may be claimed in increments that are equivalent to one work day or one work week, as defined in OAR 471-070-1000. When claiming an increment of less than a full work week, the number of work days that can be reported during a week is established by the average number of work days worked per week by the claimant as defined in OAR 471-070-1040. (4) When benefits are claimed in an increment that is equivalent to one work day or one work week, leave must be taken from all employers and from all self-employed work for the entirety of that period to receive benefits. Example 1: Kelsey is taking family leave and is currently an employee at a university and an architecture firm. Kelsey works for the university in the morning of their work day and the architecture firm in the evenings on the same work day. Kelsey must take leave from both places of employment for the work day in order to claim benefits for the work day. If Kelsey only missed work from the university due to the family leave for that one work day, it would not qualify for benefits. Example 2: Chloe is taking medical leave and is currently an employee at a department store and a self-employed delivery driver. Chloe works four work days total per work week: Monday and Tuesday at the department store and Wednesday and Saturday as a self-employed delivery driver. Chloe must take leave for all four work days from both jobs in order to claim a full work week of benefits. If Chloe only missed work on Monday and Saturday due to medical leave, Chloe would qualify for benefits for two work days instead of a work week.