Multnomah County Board of Commissioners passed a resolution to provide Paid Parental Leave (PPL) beginning Nov 1, 2015, for employees who are new parents, to support the arrival of a new child into a family.

This benefit will work side-by-side with the current FMLA/OFLA parental leave approval process. Below are the basic steps:

• Employees notify County leave administration that they are expecting to add a new child to their family either through birth, adoption or foster care placement. A FMLA/OFLA leave request is submitted.
• Leave administration sends a parental leave approval designated under FMLA/OFLA if eligible.
• Employees notify their supervisor when they have their baby. Employee (or supervisor) fills out the new online new child notification form. This notice goes out to leave administrator, departmental HR leave partners, and the payroll office.
• Payroll loads the paid parental leave banks for 6 weeks of paid leave.
• Employee's time is entered in Workday with PPL codes for default of first 6 weeks of their parental leave (post birth/placement only), followed by paid leave codes (FMLA/OFLA designated as applicable), then with unpaid leave codes (FMLA/OFLA designated as applicable).