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ORDINANCE NO. 20537 <br />AN ORDINANCE CONCERNING SICK LEAVE; ADDING SECTIONS <br />4.570 THROUGH 4.584 TO THE EUGENE CODE, 1971; AMENDING <br />SECTION 4.996 OF THAT CODE; ADOPTING A SEVERABILITY <br />CLAUSE; AND PROVIDING FOR AN EFFECTIVE DATE. <br />THE CITY OF EUGENE DOES ORDAIN AS FOLLOWS: <br />Section 1. <br />Sections 4.570 through 4.584 of the Eugene Code, 1971, are added to <br />provide as follows: <br />SICK LEAVE <br />4.570Sick Leave-Purpose. <br />The purposes of sections 4.570 through 4.584 of <br />this code are: (a) to promote a sustainable, healthy and productive <br />workforce and school population by establishing minimum standards for sick <br />leave for employers engaged in business inside the city; and (b)to ensure <br />that all persons working inside the city will have the right to earn and use <br />paid sick leave. When employers fail to provide sick days, employees who <br />are ill must choose between coming to work sick, which could spread <br />illnesses to co-workers and customers, or staying home and losing the <br />income possibly needed for rent, food, clothes or utilities. Similarly, parents <br />must choose between sending their sick children to school, which could <br />infect other children and teachers, or staying home and losing income <br />possibly needed to survive. Allowing employees to earn and take sick leave <br />will maintain a healthier workforce and school population. <br />4.572Sick Leave –Applicability. <br />(1) <br />The provisions of sections 4.570 through 4.584 of this code apply to <br />employers engaged in business inside the city but only to the extent <br />that employees are working in or scheduled to work inside the city. <br />(2) <br />Notwithstanding subsection (1) of this section, the provisions of <br />sections 4.570 through 4.584 of this code do not apply to: <br />(a)The United States Government; <br />(b)The State of Oregon, including any office, department, agency, <br />authority, institution, association, society or other body of the <br />state, including the legislature and the judiciary; <br />(c)Any unit of local government as that term is defined by ORS <br />190.003, except for the City of Eugene, including any county, city, <br />district, authority, public corporation, municipal utility or other <br />public entity; or <br />Ordinance -Page 1of 6 <br />