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Section 657.010 - Definitions. - (1) "Base year" means the first four of the last...
Section 657.020 - Employing unit. - (a) Any individual or type of organization, including any partnership,...
Section 657.025 - Employer. - (2) Whenever any helper, assistant or employee of an employer...
Section 657.030 - Employment generally; educational, hospital, nursing, student service exclusions. - (2) Notwithstanding any other provisions of this chapter, "employment" includes...
Section 657.035 - Employment; effect of place of performance of service. - (a) The service is localized in this state; or (b)...
Section 657.040 - Employment; when service for pay excluded; independent contractors. - (2) A finding that an individual performed services for an...
Section 657.043 - Employment; golf course caddy service excluded; exceptions. - (1) A nonprofit employing unit; (2) This state; (3) A...
Section 657.044 - Employment; service by partners and corporate officers and directors who are family members and by certain sole corporate officers and directors excluded; election; exceptions. - (a) A corporation by corporate officers who: (A) Are directors...
Section 657.045 - Employment; agricultural labor excluded; exceptions. - (a) During any calendar quarter in the current calendar year...
Section 657.046 - Employment; operation of taxicab or passenger vehicle for nonemergency medical transportation by owner or lessee of vehicle for entity operated by board of owner-operators; exceptions. - (2) As used in this section: (a) "Leasehold" has the...
Section 657.047 - Employment; transportation of logs, poles and piling and lessor of for-hire carriers excluded; exceptions. - (a) Transportation by motor vehicle of logs, poles and piling...
Section 657.050 - Employment; domestic service, child care service and certain service not in course of employer’s trade excluded; exceptions. - (a) Domestic service performed in a private home, local college...
Section 657.053 - Employment; certain service on fishing boat excluded. - (a) "Fish" includes fish or other forms of aquatic animal...
Section 657.056 - Employment; maritime service. - (2) The term "employment" shall not include: (a) Services performed...
Section 657.060 - Employment; family service and foster care excluded. - (2) "Employment" does not include service performed as foster care...
Section 657.065 - Employment; governmental service excluded; exceptions. - (2) "Employment" does not include services that are performed in...
Section 657.067 - Employment; community work and training programs excluded; work study, work experience and work incentive programs excluded; exceptions. - (a) In a community work and training program, as defined...
Section 657.080 - Employment; news delivery service excluded. - (1) In the delivery or distribution of newspapers or shopping...
Section 657.087 - Employment; service by individuals soliciting contracts for home improvements and consumer goods sales excluded. - (1) By individuals soliciting contracts for home improvements including roofing,...
Section 657.088 - Employment; certain sports officiating services excluded; exceptions. - (2) As used in this section: (a) "Officiating services" means...
Section 657.092 - Employment; nonprofit organization employees and contestants excluded. - (2) As used in this section: (a) "Contestant" means a...
Section 657.093 - Employment; certain services provided in exchange for ski passes excluded. - (2) The provisions of subsection (1) of this section apply...
Section 657.095 - Payroll. - (2) The remuneration paid by an employer located in this...
Section 657.100 - Unemployment; rules. - (2) For the purposes of ORS 657.155 (1), an individual...
Section 657.105 - Wages; generally. - (2) Notwithstanding the provisions of subsection (1) of this section,...
Section 657.115 - Wages; exclusion of fringe benefits. - (a) Retirement. (b) Sickness or accident disability under a workers’...
Section 657.117 - Wages; inclusion of federal taxes and tips. - (1) The amount of any tax imposed upon an employee...
Section 657.130 - Wages; exclusion of payments from certain trusts and annuities. - (1) From or to a trust exempt from tax under...
Section 657.144 - Notice to individual of effect of filing claim for benefits; earned income tax credits. - (a) Benefits are subject to federal and state income tax;...
Section 657.146 - Withholding from benefits for tax purposes; rules. - (2) An election made under this section shall be on...
Section 657.150 - Amount of benefits; length of employment and wages necessary to qualify for benefits; rules. - (2)(a) To qualify for benefits an individual must have: (A)...
Section 657.155 - Benefit eligibility conditions; rules. - (a) The individual has registered for work at and thereafter...
Section 657.156 - Reemployment service assistance; eligibility; rules. - (a) Identify eligible individuals who are likely to exhaust benefits...
Section 657.158 - Self-employment assistance; eligibility; amounts payable; rules. - (a)(A) "Regular benefits" means benefits payable to an individual under...
Section 657.159 - Claimants required to submit job qualifications to Oregon State Employment Service; use of information; referring claimant to available jobs. - (2) Information submitted by an individual pursuant to the provisions...
Section 657.165 - Waiting period eligibility, condition, limitation. - (1) Unless it occurs within the benefit year that includes...
Section 657.167 - Amount and time period for payment of benefits to educational institution employees. - (2) With respect to any services described in subsection (1)...
Section 657.170 - Extending base year; limitation. - (2) If the director finds that during and prior to...
Section 657.173 - Alternate base year; rules. - (b) Notwithstanding paragraph (a) of this subsection, a determination of...
Section 657.176 - Grounds and procedure for disqualification; exceptions; rules. - (2) An individual shall be disqualified from the receipt of...
Section 657.179 - Eligibility of individuals participating in certain federally approved training. - (2) As used in this section "suitable work" means work...
Section 657.195 - Suitable work; exceptions. - (a) If the position offered is vacant due directly to...
Section 657.200 - Labor dispute disqualification; exceptions. - (2) When an employer operates two or more premises in...
Section 657.202 - Temporary lockout benefits. - (2) An individual is eligible to receive temporary lockout benefits...
Section 657.205 - Deduction of retirement pay; exceptions. - (2) In determining disqualification for any week under subsection (1)...
Section 657.213 - Ineligibility for benefits upon conviction of fraud in obtaining benefits. - (a) Be ineligible for benefits based upon wages paid to...
Section 657.221 - Ineligibility for benefits of certain educational institution employees; exceptions. - (b) Notwithstanding paragraph (a) of this subsection, benefits shall not...
Section 657.255 - Method of payment of benefits; payment of benefits due deceased person; rules. - (2) In the event of the death of any person...
Section 657.260 - Filing claims for benefits; employer to post statements concerning claim regulations; rules. - (2) Each employer shall post and maintain printed statements concerning...
Section 657.262 - Information provided by public employer to employees. - (a) May not inform an employee of the employer that...
Section 657.266 - Initial determination of eligibility and amount of benefits; notice to affected parties; cancellation of determination; determination becomes final when hearing not requested. - (2) The Director of the Employment Department shall promptly give...
Section 657.267 - Allowing or denying claim; notice of denial; amended decision; appeal. - (2) If the claim is denied under any provision of...
Section 657.269 - Decision final unless hearing requested. - (b) If the decision is to allow benefits, the director...
Section 657.270 - Hearing upon decision; application for review; dismissal of request for hearing. - (2)(a) The Director of the Employment Department shall notify the...
Section 657.273 - Restriction on use of findings, orders and judgments in other proceedings. - (1) May not be used for the purpose of claim...
Section 657.275 - Review by Employment Appeals Board. - (2) The board shall perform de novo review on the...
Section 657.280 - General procedure and records concerning disputed claims. - (2) A full and complete record shall be kept of...
Section 657.290 - Continuous jurisdiction of director; reconsideration of previous decisions. - (a) Errors of computation; (b) Clerical errors; (c) Misinformation provided...
Section 657.295 - Witness fees; disputed claim expenses; counsel; fees. - (2) Notwithstanding any other law, a person in any proceeding...
Section 657.300 - False statements or failure to report material fact by employer. - 657.305 [Amended by 1955 c.655 §16; repealed by 1971 c.743...
Section 657.310 - Repayment or deduction of benefits paid due to misrepresentation by recipient; director discretion; penalty for fraud; time limits on collection; civil action by director; disposition of amounts collected; rules. - (A) To repay the amount of the benefits to the...
Section 657.312 - Offset of moneys owed to debtor by federal and state governments against certain benefit overpayments; fees; rules. - (a) Offsetting against liquidated state debt moneys that the federal...
Section 657.315 - Deduction of benefits paid in error not due to recipient fault; director discretion; civil action by director. - (b) For purposes of paragraph (a) of this subsection, the...
Section 657.317 - Waiver of recovery of overpaid benefits; director discretion; liability extinguished. - (2)(a) Except as provided in paragraph (b) of this subsection,...
Section 657.320 - Cancellation of unrecoverable benefits. - (b) Notwithstanding paragraph (a) of this subsection, the overpayment may...
Section 657.321 - Definitions for ORS 657.321 to 657.329. - (1) "Eligibility period" of an individual means: (a) The period...
Section 657.325 - Extended benefits; eligibility; amount. - (a) Is an exhaustee; (b) Has satisfied the requirements of...
Section 657.327 - Notice of effectiveness of extended benefits; employers not to be charged for extended benefits. - (2) No employer’s account shall be charged for extended benefits...
Section 657.328 - Eligibility period adopted by rule. - Note: 657.328 was added to and made a part of...
Section 657.331 - "Additional benefits" and "additional benefit period" defined. - (a) "Additional benefits" means benefits totally financed by the state...
Section 657.335 - Definitions for ORS 657.335 to 657.360. - (1) "Career and technical training" means training or retraining and...
Section 657.340 - Eligibility for benefits. - (2) Notwithstanding provisions of this chapter relating to availability for...
Section 657.345 - Approval of programs by director. - (2) In approving career and technical training for eligible dislocated...
Section 657.357 - Apprenticeship program participants eligible for benefits; conditions. - (1) Is not ineligible for the benefits or waiting week...
Section 657.370 - Definitions for ORS 657.370 to 657.390. - (1) "Affected employee" means an individual who was continuously employed...
Section 657.375 - Plan applications; approval by director. - (2) The director may give written approval of a shared...
Section 657.380 - Eligibility of employees; benefit limitation. - (a) During the week the individual is employed as a...
Section 657.385 - Method of paying benefits; amount; applicability of law to shared work plans; rules. - (2) The provisions of ORS 657.150 (6) shall not apply...
Section 657.390 - Employer charged for benefits in same manner as for regular or extended benefits; limitations. - (2) Notwithstanding subsection (1) of this section or any other...
Section 657.392 - Benefits subject to recovery as lien on real or personal property. - (2) The lien shall be perfected and attach: (a) To...
Section 657.394 - Filing of lien statement or warrant. - (2) When a copy of the statement of lien or...
Section 657.396 - Alternative remedies for collection of amounts liable to be repaid; warrants; execution by sheriff. - (a) Assess a collection charge of $5 if the amount...
Section 657.400 - Employment Department Special Fraud Control Fund; use of funds; Lost Wages Assistance benefit overpayments. - (a) Interest and penalties described under ORS 657.310 (7)(b). (b)...
Section 657.415 - When employer ceases to be subject to this chapter. - (2) The employer shall cease to be subject effective with...
Section 657.425 - Election of coverage for services that do not constitute employment as defined in this chapter. - (2) Notwithstanding subsection (1) of this section: (a) A nonprofit...
Section 657.430 - Tax rates based on experience. - Note: Sections 2, 3 and 5, chapter 638, Oregon Laws...
Section 657.435 - Base rate for first year. - ______________________________________________________________________________ Schedule of Table A, Tax Rate ORS 657.462 Assigned...
Section 657.439 - Wage Security Program funding. - ______________________________________________________________________________ Fund Adequacy Percentage Ratio I C 190% and Over...
Section 657.457 - Penalty when employer fails to file contribution reports and pay contributions when due; notice of failure; waiver; rules. - (a) File all tax reports as required by the Director...
Section 657.458 - Definitions for employer tax rate computations; exclusion of calendar years 2020 and 2021. - (1) "Adjusted average weekly check amount" means the average weekly...
Section 657.459 - Computation of Fund Adequacy Percentage Ratio. - (a) Average monthly employment in the calendar year preceding the...
Section 657.462 - Computation of benefit ratio; grouping employers within cumulative taxable payroll percentage limits; assignment of rates. - (2) A listing shall be prepared of all employers meeting...
Section 657.463 - Tax rate schedules. - ______________________________________________________________________________ Fund Adequacy Percentage Ratio I B 190% and Over...
Section 657.467 - Amounts included in fund adequacy percentage ratio computations. - as 1967 c.435 §12; 1971 c.463 §17; 1977 c.538 §5]
Section 657.471 - Manner of charging benefits to employer; request for relief from charges. - (2) The account of an employer, other than a political...
Section 657.475 - Where a number of the same workers are normally employed by several employers; records; contributions; charging benefits. - (2) The director may, by regulation, provide for the manner...
Section 657.480 - Effect of transfer of trade or business; partial transfer; penalties; rules. - (2)(a) If a person is not an employer when the...
Section 657.485 - Notice of rate; request for hearing; procedure for redetermination. - (2) An employer whose rate has been determined in accordance...
Section 657.504 - Applicability of noncharging provisions. - (2) The noncharging provisions of this chapter apply to taxpaying...
Section 657.505 - Payment of and liability for taxes; rules. - (2) An employer shall be liable for taxes on all...
Section 657.507 - Employer’s security for payment of contributions. - (2) The director may, at the discretion of the director...
Section 657.508 - Failure to comply with ORS 657.507. - (2) Upon filing of a suit for such purpose by...
Section 657.509 - Taxes from political subdivisions and people’s utility districts; election; effect of canceling election; applicability of noncharging provisions. - (2) An election shall continue until canceled but shall be...
Section 657.510 - Refunds. - Note: Pursuant to 173.160, Legislative Counsel has not substituted specific...
Section 657.513 - Political subdivision contribution payments from Local Government Employer Benefit Trust Fund. - (2) A request shall continue until canceled but shall be...
Section 657.515 - Delinquent taxes; interest; civil penalties; collection by civil action; settlement. - (2) Interest upon the amount due from an employer shall...
Section 657.516 - Liability of certain officers, members, partners and employees for amounts in default. - (2) This section shall apply only to a person who...
Section 657.517 - Authority of director to compromise or adjust debts or overpayments; determination of uncollectible amounts. - (a) Waive, reduce or compromise any tax balance of $10...
Section 657.535 - Liens under ORS 657.525 or 657.530; priority; filing statement of lien; foreclosure. - (2) In order to assert such liens, the Director of...
Section 657.540 - Lien on property of defaulting employer; recording; priority; foreclosure. - (2) The lien shall be perfected and attach: (a) To...
Section 657.542 - Filing liens and warrants with Secretary of State. - (2) When a copy of the statement of lien or...
Section 657.545 - Release of ORS 657.540 lien by filing security. - (2) The clerk shall issue to such employer a certificate...
Section 657.552 - Limitations on notices of assessment and on actions to collect contributions, interest and penalties. - (2) In case of failure without good cause to file...
Section 657.557 - Remedies for collection of contributions not exclusive; prevailing party in civil action to recover costs. - (2) In any civil action brought under this section, the...
Section 657.565 - Unlawful practices of employer. - (2) No employer shall make a deduction from the wages...
Section 657.571 - Quarterly or annual tax report; form; filing with Department of Revenue. - (2) The report of taxes due under this chapter may...
Section 657.575 - Repayment of default by nonprofit employing unit; conditions. - (2) Reimbursement payments made pursuant to this section shall be...
Section 657.601 - Employment Department. - (1) Administer the unemployment insurance laws of this state to...
Section 657.608 - Director; term; duties; compensation. - (2) The director is responsible for providing for programs to...
Section 657.610 - Director; powers and duties generally; rules. - (1) For purposes of administration and control, and with the...
Section 657.615 - Investigations and recommendations to legislature. - (1) Carry on investigations of the operation of unemployment insurance...
Section 657.620 - Determination of adequate fund reserve; modification of benefits and eligibility regulations in case of emergency. - (2) In the event of general and extended unemployment, such...
Section 657.625 - Publication of rules, reports and information on Employment Department law. - (2) The director may also publish from time to time...
Section 657.630 - Quasi-judicial powers in administrative hearings. - (1) To hold sessions at any place within the state....
Section 657.642 - Alternative remedies for collection of taxes, interest and penalties; warrants; execution by sheriff. - (a) Assess a collection charge of $5 if the sum...
Section 657.657 - Acquisition of land and offices. - (2) Any agreement made for the purchase of property pursuant...
Section 657.660 - Records and reports of employing units. - (2) Such records shall be open to inspection by the...
Section 657.663 - Penalty for failure by employer to file reports; amount; collection procedure; review of penalty. - (2) If an employer, without good cause, fails to file...
Section 657.665 - Confidentiality of information. - (a) Is confidential and for the exclusive use and information...
Section 657.673 - Disclosure of wage information to consumer reporting agency; conditions. - (a) "Wage information" means the amount of wages as reported...
Section 657.676 - Reconsideration of determinations; conditions; rules; hearing and review. - (a) Computation errors; (b) Clerical errors; (c) Misinformation provided to...
Section 657.679 - Determination that employing unit or employment is subject to this chapter; notice; application for hearing. - (1) As to whether an employing unit is an employer...
Section 657.681 - Computation and assessment of employer contributions and interest; jeopardy assessments; application for hearing. - (2) If an employer fails to file a report when...
Section 657.682 - Assessments against reorganized business entity. - (a) A person that is solely a minority shareholder in...
Section 657.683 - Hearings on actions under ORS 657.480, 657.679, 657.681 and 657.682; decision of administrative law judge; amendment of decision. - (2) If a valid application for hearing is filed within...
Section 657.685 - Employment Appeals Board; confirmation; quorum; meetings; duties; staffing; rules. - (2) The Employment Appeals Board consists of three members who...
Section 657.690 - Employment Appeals Board powers. - (1) To hold sessions any place within the state. (2)...
Section 657.695 - Employment Department Advisory Council; members; compensation and expenses. - (2) The members of the council shall be appointed by...
Section 657.702 - Department to encourage volunteering. - (a) Update the department’s webpage to encourage volunteering and provide...
Section 657.710 - Free public employment offices; contracts relating to workforce development system; public agencies to provide information on job vacancies. - (2) The director may enter into such contracts or memoranda...
Section 657.720 - Cooperation with federal agencies, political subdivisions or private organizations in maintaining public employment service. - (2) The director may cooperate with or enter into agreements...
Section 657.730 - Workforce and labor market information system; rules. - (a) "Labor market area" means an economically integrated geographic area...
Section 657.734 - Performance Reporting Information System; rules. - (a) "Public body" has the meaning given that term in...
Section 657.747 - Department to inform employer and United States Department of Labor of employer’s noncompliance with certain federal requirements regarding federal forest maintenance activity. - (1) Inform the employer of the noncompliance; and (2) Inform...
Section 657.749 - Department actions when certain forest maintenance activity jobs listed. - (a) Confirm with the employer whether the job is open...
Section 657.755 - Cooperation with federal agencies administering unemployment insurance laws. - (1) Cooperate in all necessary respects with the appropriate agencies...
Section 657.757 - Cooperation with federal agencies administering training or retraining programs and other assistance. - (a) The Director of the Employment Department may act as...
Section 657.760 - Reciprocal agreements on coverage and collection of contributions. - (1) Potential rights to benefits accumulated under the unemployment insurance...
Section 657.765 - Reciprocal agreements concerning payroll taxes for out-of-state work. - (1) Waiving the further collection of payroll taxes in all...
Section 657.770 - Reciprocal agreements concerning wages used as basis for benefits. - (2) No such arrangement shall be entered into unless it...
Section 657.775 - Cooperation with other states on reciprocal basis for collection of contributions. - (2) The Attorney General is empowered to initiate and prosecute...
Section 657.780 - Agreements with governmental agencies to withhold benefits for child support obligations; rules. - (2) Notwithstanding ORS 657.855, the Director of the Employment Department...
Section 657.783 - Supplemental Employment Department Administration Fund. - (2) Except as provided in subsection (3) of this section,...
Section 657.785 - Agreement for Interstate Reciprocal Overpayment Recovery Arrangement. - (2) For purposes of this section, "states" includes the District...
Section 657.805 - Unemployment Compensation Trust Fund. - (1) All contributions received and collected under this chapter. (2)...
Section 657.807 - Advances, under title XII of Social Security Act, to Unemployment Compensation Trust Fund. - (2) The Director of the Employment Department shall notify the...
Section 657.810 - Deposit and use of fund. - (2) All moneys in the fund shall be mingled and...
Section 657.812 - Use of moneys credited to Unemployment Trust Fund by Secretary of the Treasury. - (a) Specifies the purposes for which the money is appropriated...
Section 657.813 - Use of moneys made available under Social Security Act for administrative expenses. - Note: 657.813 was enacted into law by the Legislative Assembly...
Section 657.815 - Unemployment Compensation Benefit Fund. - (2) This fund shall be used solely in the payment...
Section 657.820 - Unemployment Compensation Administration Fund. - (2) Such fund shall be expended solely for the purposes...
Section 657.822 - Employment Department Special Administrative Fund. - (a) All interest collected under ORS 657.515. (b) All penalties...
Section 657.823 - Employment Tax Guarantee Fund. - (a) Money deposits received under ORS 657.505 or 657.507; and...
Section 657.825 - Expenditure of federal funds; restitution of moneys lost or improperly expended. - (2) If any moneys received for the Unemployment Compensation Administration...
Section 657.830 - State Treasurer as custodian of funds. - (2) After clearance thereof, the State Treasurer immediately shall deposit...
Section 657.840 - Federal Advance Interest Repayment Fund; assessment of tax; applicability. - (a) Estimate the interest payable, accrued through the end of...
Section 657.855 - Benefits not assignable; waiver of rights invalid. - (2) The exemption from execution or other process granted under...
Section 657.870 - When operation of this chapter ceases. - (2) If the provisions of the Act of October 20,...
Section 657.880 - Health care coverage for unemployed individuals; deduction of benefits. - (1) To deduct an amount from unemployment compensation otherwise payable...
Section 657.885 - "Health care coverage" defined. - (1) Health insurance policies issued by qualified insurers and health...
Section 657.990 - Penalties. - (2) Violation of ORS 657.300 is a Class A misdemeanor....