2021 Oregon Revised Statutes
Chapter 653 - Minimum Wages; Employment Conditions; Minors
Section 653.010 - Definitions for ORS 653.010 to 653.261.


(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, 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.
(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]

Structure 2021 Oregon Revised Statutes

2021 Oregon Revised Statutes

Volume : 16 - Trade Practices, Labor and Employment

Chapter 653 - Minimum Wages; Employment Conditions; Minors

Section 653.010 - Definitions for ORS 653.010 to 653.261.

Section 653.017 - Local minimum wage requirements; preemption; exceptions.

Section 653.020 - Excluded employees.

Section 653.022 - "Piece-rate-work-day" defined for ORS 653.020.

Section 653.025 - Minimum wage rate; rules.

Section 653.026 - "Nonurban county" defined for ORS 653.025.

Section 653.033 - Schedule to increase certain subminimum wage rates for individuals with disabilities.

Section 653.035 - Deducting value of lodging, meals and other benefits furnished by employer; treatment of commissions and tips.

Section 653.040 - Powers of commissioner; rules.

Section 653.045 - Records to be kept by employers; itemization of deductions from wages.

Section 653.055 - Liability of noncomplying employer; contrary agreements no defense; wage claims; suits to enjoin future violations; attorney fees.

Section 653.060 - Discharging or discriminating against employee prohibited.

Section 653.065 - Application of Administrative Procedures Act.

Section 653.070 - Student-learners special wage; conditions; rules; penalties.

Section 653.075 - Legislative findings on breast-feeding.

Section 653.077 - Expressing milk in workplace; rules.

Section 653.079 - Advisory committee on expressing milk in workplace; membership; duties.

Section 653.256 - Civil penalty for general employment statute or rule violations.

Section 653.261 - Minimum employment conditions; overtime; rules; meal periods; exemptions; penalty.

Section 653.263 - Overtime for persons employed by seafood processors.

Section 653.265 - Overtime for persons employed in canneries, driers and packing plants; exceptions; remedies; penalties.

Section 653.268 - Overtime for labor directly employed by public employers; special provisions for correctional facility nursing staff.

Section 653.269 - Exceptions to ORS 653.268; rules.

Section 653.280 - Employer to safeguard employee’s trade equipment.

Section 653.295 - Noncompetition agreements; bonus restriction agreements; applicability of restrictions.

Section 653.300 - Health benefit plan options for certain employees; limitation on cost to employer or health benefit plan for exercise of option.

Section 653.307 - Annual employment certificates; effect of failure by employer to comply; school districts required to cooperate with bureau; rules.

Section 653.315 - Working hours for children under 16 years of age; exceptions; mealtimes; posting notice of hours.

Section 653.320 - Employment of children under 14 years; exceptions.

Section 653.326 - Employment of professionally trained minors allowed with permit.

Section 653.330 - Employment of minors in certain logging operations prohibited.

Section 653.340 - Employment of minors for message and delivery service.

Section 653.350 - Employment of children under 12 years for certain agricultural labor; conditions.

Section 653.360 - Employment of minors in certain boating, fishing and agricultural situations.

Section 653.365 - Civil penalty exemption for unlawful employment of minors by parents or persons standing in place of parents.

Section 653.370 - Civil penalty for unlawful employment of minors.

Section 653.403 - Visitation rights of bureau; prosecution of offenses against child labor laws.

Section 653.412 - Definitions.

Section 653.422 - Covered employees; integrated enterprises; rules.

Section 653.428 - Good faith estimate of work schedule.

Section 653.432 - Voluntary standby list; penalties.

Section 653.436 - Advance notice of work schedule.

Section 653.442 - Right to rest between work shifts.

Section 653.450 - Employee right to input into work schedule.

Section 653.455 - Compensation for work schedule changes; exceptions.

Section 653.460 - Notice and posting requirements.

Section 653.465 - Record retention requirements.

Section 653.470 - Retaliation prohibited.

Section 653.480 - Enforcement; right of action; penalties.

Section 653.485 - Legislative intent.

Section 653.490 - Local work schedule requirements; preemption; exceptions.

Section 653.547 - Definitions; overtime; meal and rest periods; employment conditions; rules.

Section 653.549 - Rules.

Section 653.551 - Unlawful employment discrimination; civil remedies and penalties.

Section 653.553 - Short title.

Section 653.601 - Definitions for ORS 653.601 to 653.661.

Section 653.606 - Employee count; paid and unpaid sick time; rules; accrual, use and carryover amounts.

Section 653.611 - Substantially equivalent policies.

Section 653.616 - Allowable uses of sick time.

Section 653.621 - Minimum use increments; notice to employer; rules.

Section 653.626 - Medical verification.

Section 653.631 - Accrual amount records.

Section 653.641 - Unlawful practices.

Section 653.646 - Multiemployer exception; mandate to establish sick time policy for home care workers and consumer employed personal support workers.

Section 653.651 - Enforcement.

Section 653.656 - Rules.