ORS 653.010
Definitions for ORS 653.010 to 653.261

As used in ORS 653.010 (Definitions for ORS 653.010 to 653.261) to 653.261 (Minimum employment conditions), unless the context requires otherwise:

(1)

“Commissioner” means the Commissioner of the Bureau of Labor and Industries.

(2)

“Employ” includes to suffer or permit to work but does not include voluntary or donated services performed for no compensation or without expectation or contemplation of compensation as the adequate consideration for the services performed for a public employer referred to in subsection (3) of this section, or a religious, charitable, educational, public service or similar nonprofit corporation, organization or institution for community service, religious or humanitarian reasons or for services performed by general or public assistance recipients as part of any work training program administered under the state or federal assistance laws.

(3)

“Employer” means any person who employs another person including the State of Oregon or a political subdivision thereof or any county, city, district, authority, public corporation or entity and any of their instrumentalities organized and existing under law or charter.

(4)

“Minor” means any person under 18 years of age.

(5)

“Occupation” means any occupation, service, trade, business, industry, or branch or group of industries or employment or class of employment in which employees are gainfully employed.

(6)

“Organized camp” means a day or resident camp, whether or not operated for profit, established to give campers recreational, creative, religious or educational experience in cooperative group living wherein the activities are conducted on a closely supervised basis, whether or not the camp is used primarily by an organized group or by members of the public and whether or not the activities or facilities are furnished free of charge or for the payment of a fee.

(7)

“Outside salesperson” means any employee who is employed for the purpose of and who is customarily and regularly engaged away from the employer’s place or places of business in making sales, or obtaining orders, or obtaining contracts for services and whose hours of work of any other nature for the employer do not exceed 30 percent of the hours worked in the workweek by the nonexempt employees of the employer.

(8)

“Piece-rate” means a rate of pay calculated on the basis of the quantity of the crop harvested.

(9)

“Salary” means no less than the wage set pursuant to ORS 653.025 (Minimum wage rate), multiplied by 2,080 hours per year, then divided by 12 months.

(10)

“Wages” means compensation due to an employee by reason of employment, payable in legal tender of the United States or check on banks convertible into cash on demand at full face value, subject to such deductions, charges or allowances as are permitted in ORS 653.035 (Deducting value of lodging, meals and other benefits furnished by employer).

(11)

“Work time” includes both time worked and time of authorized attendance. [1967 c.596 §2; 1979 c.153 §2; 1983 c.274 §1; 1985 c.99 §1; 1985 c.170 §1; 1989 c.446 §1; 1991 c.829 §2; 1993 c.739 §24; 2003 c.14 §398]

Source: Section 653.010 — Definitions for ORS 653.010 to 653.261, https://www.­oregonlegislature.­gov/bills_laws/ors/ors653.­html.

Notes of Decisions

Where defendants worked for subcontractor on construction project, used their own tools to perform work, did not communicate directly with plaintiff contractor and were paid by subcontractor, defendants were not employed by plaintiff contractor under economic realities test that determines whether plaintiff contractor had functional control over defendants so that defendants were dependent on plaintiff contractor; overruling Chard v. Beauty-N-Beast Salon, 148 Or App 623, 941 P2d 611 (1997). Cejas Commercial Interiors, Inc. v. Torres-Lizama, 260 Or App 87, 316 P3d 389 (2013)

653.010
Definitions for ORS 653.010 to 653.261 653.015
Statement of policy 653.017
Local minimum wage requirements 653.020
Excluded employees 653.022
“Piece-rate-work-day” defined for ORS 653.020 653.025
Minimum wage rate 653.026
“Nonurban county” defined for ORS 653.025 653.027
Wage rate for persons under 18 years of age in agriculture 653.030
Commissioner may prescribe lower rates in certain cases 653.033
Schedule to increase certain subminimum wage rates for individuals with disabilities 653.035
Deducting value of lodging, meals and other benefits furnished by employer 653.040
Powers of commissioner 653.045
Records to be kept by employers 653.050
Employers to post summary of law and rules 653.055
Liability of noncomplying employer 653.060
Discharging or discriminating against employee prohibited 653.065
Application of Administrative Procedures Act 653.070
Student-learners special wage 653.075
Legislative findings on breast-feeding 653.077
Expressing milk in workplace 653.079
Advisory committee on expressing milk in workplace 653.256
Civil penalty for general employment statute or rule violations 653.261
Minimum employment conditions 653.263
Overtime for persons employed by seafood processors 653.265
Overtime for persons employed in canneries, driers and packing plants 653.268
Overtime for labor directly employed by public employers 653.269
Exceptions to ORS 653.268 653.280
Employer to safeguard employee’s trade equipment 653.285
Liability of employer 653.295
Noncompetition agreements 653.300
Health benefit plan options for certain employees 653.305
Bureau’s inquiry into employment of minors 653.307
Annual employment certificates 653.310
Employment certificates on file 653.315
Working hours for children under 16 years of age 653.320
Employment of children under 14 years 653.326
Employment of professionally trained minors allowed with permit 653.330
Employment of minors in certain logging operations prohibited 653.335
Employment of minors as elevator operators prohibited 653.340
Employment of minors for message and delivery service 653.345
Legislative findings 653.350
Employment of children under 12 years for certain agricultural labor 653.355
Exemption of certain employers 653.360
Employment of minors in certain boating, fishing and agricultural situations 653.362
Exemption of minors serving as soccer referees 653.365
Civil penalty exemption for unlawful employment of minors by parents or persons standing in place of parents 653.370
Civil penalty for unlawful employment of minors 653.400
Rules 653.403
Visitation rights of bureau 653.412
Definitions 653.422
Covered employees 653.428
Good faith estimate of work schedule 653.432
Voluntary standby list 653.436
Advance notice of work schedule 653.442
Right to rest between work shifts 653.450
Employee right to input into work schedule 653.455
Compensation for work schedule changes 653.460
Notice and posting requirements 653.465
Record retention requirements 653.470
Retaliation prohibited 653.480
Enforcement 653.485
Legislative intent 653.490
Local work schedule requirements 653.547
Definitions 653.549
Rules 653.551
Unlawful employment discrimination 653.553
Short title 653.560
Authority of Bureau of Labor and Industries 653.565
Investigating compliance with rules 653.601
Definitions for ORS 653.601 to 653.661 653.606
Employee count 653.611
Substantially equivalent policies 653.616
Allowable uses of sick time 653.621
Minimum use increments 653.626
Medical verification 653.631
Accrual amount records 653.636
Minimum requirements 653.641
Unlawful practices 653.646
Multiemployer exception 653.651
Enforcement 653.656
Rules 653.661
Preemption 653.991
Penalties
Green check means up to date. Up to date

Current through early 2024

§ 653.010’s source at oregon​.gov