Now that Paid Leave Oregon is live, we are bringing you the experts to discuss how things are working. Paid Leave Oregon staff will provide detailed information for employers on the program, how employers can help employees access this important resource, and answer your specific questions about Paid Leave Oregon. BOLI will also provide an update on how Paid Leave Oregon, OFLA and FMLA interplay. After a brief overview of the basics on Paid Leave Oregon, the workshop will get into the nuts and bolts of how Paid Leave Oregon works and all these leave laws “fit” together. Send in your questions and we will forward to the presenters in advance. BOLI will send out a questionnaire to guide their presentation content.
About our Presenters:
Sarah Ambrosek joined the Oregon Employment Department in 2020 as a Business Employment Specialist serving Oregonians with access and knowledge within the special programs center to include; Work Share, Self-Employment Assistance, Training Unemployment Assistance, and Disaster Unemployment Assistance. In 2022, Sarah joined Paid Leave Oregon as an Operations and Policy Analyst providing outreach and customer care support. Prior to joining the Employment Department, she worked in Digital Marketing for a fortune 500 company.
Joseph Tam is a Training and Development Specialist with the Employer Assistance, and a former Senior Civil Rights Investigator with the Civil Rights Division, of the Oregon Bureau of Labor and Industries. He has been working for the agency for about 39 years. He is a graduate of Ricks College, Rexburg, Idaho and Portland State University. He conducts in-person seminars and webinars on Oregon Family Leave Act (OFLA), federal Family and Medical Leave Act (FMLA), Family and Medical Leave Insurance (aka Paid Leave Oregon), Oregon Sick Time Law, Leave Law Basics, Advanced Leave Laws, Leave Laws in Oregon – 2-day training, Workplace Accommodations Issues, Workplace Harassment and Discrimination, Wage and Hour Laws, Payroll Issues, Effective Supervisory Practices, Legal Hiring Practices, Documentation, Discipline and Discharge, Dealing with Difficult Employees, Injured Workers Laws, Life of a Workers’ Compensation Claim, Disability Laws, Drug and Alcohol Issues in the Workplace, etc. throughout Oregon. He is known to make the Recordkeeping seminar “interesting.” He regularly presented in BOLI’s Annual Employment Law Conference. After BOLI’s presentation before PSHRA in June 2023, one participant said, “it was very informative.“ Another participant wrote, “Joseph – the presentation was amazing!”
