2021 Oregon Revised Statutes
Chapter 653 - Minimum Wages; Employment Conditions; Minors
Section 653.455 - Compensation for work schedule changes; exceptions.


(a) "Group communication" means communication to all eligible employees, either written or oral.
(b) "Ticketed event" means a sporting, entertainment, civic, charitable or other event that requires a ticket for admission. The ticket may be electronic, physical or a name on a list held by the event organizer.
(2) An employer shall provide the following compensation to an employee for each employer-requested change that occurs to the employee’s written work schedule without the advance notice required in ORS 653.436:
(a) One hour of pay at the employee’s regular rate of pay, in addition to wages earned, when the employer:
(A) Adds more than 30 minutes of work to the employee’s work shift;
(B) Changes the date or start or end time of the employee’s work shift with no loss of hours; or
(C) Schedules the employee for an additional work shift or on-call shift.
(b) One-half times the employee’s regular rate of pay per hour for each scheduled hour that the employee does not work when the employer:
(A) Subtracts hours from the employee’s work shift before or after the employee reports for duty;
(B) Changes the date or start or end time of the employee’s work shift, resulting in a loss of work shift hours;
(C) Cancels the employee’s work shift; or
(D) Does not ask the employee to perform work when the employee is scheduled for an on-call shift.
(3) The requirements for additional compensation in this section do not apply when:
(a) An employer changes the start or end time of an employee’s work shift by 30 minutes or less;
(b) An employee mutually agrees with another employee to employee-initiated work shift swaps or coverage. The employer may require that work shift swaps or coverage under this paragraph be preapproved by the employer. The employer may assist employees in finding such arrangements, provided that any employer assistance must be limited to helping an employee identify other employees who may be available to provide work shift swaps or coverage and may not include the employer arranging the work shift swap or coverage;
(c) An employee requests changes to the employee’s written work schedule, including adding or subtracting hours, and the employee documents the request in writing;
(d) An employer makes changes to an employee’s written work schedule at the employee’s request under ORS 653.436 (6);
(e) An employer subtracts hours from an employee’s work schedule for disciplinary reasons for just cause, provided the employer documents the incident leading to the employee’s discipline in writing;
(f) An employee’s work shift or on-call shift cannot begin or continue due to threats to employees or property or due to the recommendation of a public official;
(g) Operations cannot begin or continue because public utilities fail to supply electricity, water or gas or there is a failure in the public utilities or sewer system;
(h) Operations cannot begin or continue due to a natural disaster or a similar cause not within the employer’s control, including when the natural disaster or similar cause physically affects the work site;
(i) Operations hours change or are substantially altered because a ticketed event is canceled, rescheduled or changes in duration due to circumstances that are outside the employer’s control and that occur after the employer provides the written work schedule under ORS 653.436;
(j) An employer requests that an employee on a voluntary standby list work additional hours as described in ORS 653.432 and the employee consents to work the additional hours; or
(k)(A) An employer requests that an employee work additional hours to address unanticipated customer needs or unexpected employee absence;
(B) The employee consents in writing to work the additional hours;
(C) If the employer maintains a voluntary standby list described in ORS 653.432, the employer has contacted all of the employees listed on the voluntary standby list and requires additional employee coverage; and
(D)(i) If the employee is working a work shift at the time the employer makes the request, the employer makes the request either individually or as part of a group communication; or
(ii) If the employee is not working a work shift at the time the employer makes the request, the employer makes the request through a group communication. [2017 c.691 §7]
Note: See note under 653.412.

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.