As used in this chapter, unless the context requires otherwise: (1) “Base year” means the first four of the last five completed calendar quarters preceding the benefit year. (2) “Benefits” means the money allowances payable to unemployed persons under this chapter. (3) “Benefit year” means a period of 52 consecutive weeks commencing with the first […]
As used in this chapter, unless the context requires otherwise, “employee” means any person, including aliens and minors, employed for remuneration or under any contract of hire, written or oral, express or implied, by an employer subject to this chapter in an employment subject to this chapter. “Employee” does not include a person who volunteers […]
(1) As used in this chapter, unless the context requires otherwise, “employing unit” means: (a) Any individual or type of organization, including any partnership, association, limited liability company, limited liability partnership, trust, estate, joint stock company, insurance company or corporation, whether domestic or foreign, or the receiver, trustee in bankruptcy, trustee, or successor thereof, or […]
(1) As used in this chapter, unless the context requires otherwise, “employer” means any employing unit which employs one or more individuals in an employment subject to this chapter in each of 18 separate weeks during any calendar year, or in which the employing unit’s total payroll during any calendar quarter amounts to $1,000 or […]
(1) As used in this chapter, except as provided in ORS 657.035, 657.040 and 657.043 to 657.094, “employment” means service for an employer, including service in interstate commerce, within or outside the United States, performed for remuneration or under any contract of hire, written or oral, express or implied. (2) Notwithstanding any other provisions of […]
(1) The term “employment” includes an individual’s entire service, performed within, or both within and without, this state if: (a) The service is localized in this state; or (b) The service is not localized in any state, and such service is not covered under the unemployment compensation law of any other state, the Virgin Islands […]
(1) Services performed by an individual for remuneration are deemed to be employment subject to this chapter unless and until it is shown to the satisfaction of the Director of the Employment Department that the individual is an independent contractor, as that term is defined in ORS 670.600. (2) A finding that an individual performed […]
“Employment” does not include service performed by a person as a caddy at a golf course in an established program for the training and supervision of caddies under the direction of a person who is an employee of the golf course. However, the provisions of this section do not apply to services performed for: (1) […]
(1) As used in this chapter, “employment” does not include service performed for: (a) A corporation by corporate officers who: (A) Are directors of the corporation; (B) Have a substantial ownership interest in the corporation; and (C) Are members of the same family. (b) A corporation by an individual who is the sole corporate officer […]
(1) “Employment” does not include agricultural labor unless such labor is performed after December 31, 1977, for an employing unit who: (a) During any calendar quarter in the current calendar year or the preceding calendar year paid remuneration in cash of $20,000 or more to individuals employed in agricultural labor; or (b) On each of […]
(1) As used in this chapter, “employment” does not include service performed in the operation of a passenger motor vehicle that is operated as a taxicab or a passenger motor vehicle that is operated for nonemergency medical transportation, by a person who has an ownership or leasehold interest in the passenger motor vehicle, for an […]
(1) As used in this chapter, “employment” does not include: (a) Transportation by motor vehicle of logs, poles and piling by any person who both furnishes and maintains the vehicle used in such transportation; or (b) Transportation performed by motor vehicle for a for-hire carrier by any person that leases their equipment to a for-hire […]
(1) As used in this chapter, “employment” does not include: (a) Domestic service performed in a private home, local college club or local chapter of a college fraternity or sorority, unless the domestic service is performed for an employing unit that paid to individuals employed in the domestic service cash remuneration of $1,000 or more […]
(1) As used in this section: (a) “Fish” includes fish or other forms of aquatic animal life. (b) “Boat” includes one or, in the case of a fishing operation, more than one boat. (2) “Employment” does not include service performed by an individual on a boat engaged in catching fish under an arrangement with the […]
(1) “Employment” includes an individual’s entire service as an officer or member of a crew of an American vessel wherever performed and whether in intrastate or interstate or foreign commerce, if the employer maintains within this state at the beginning of the pay period an operating office from which the operations of the vessel are […]
(1) “Employment” does not include service performed by a person in the employ of a son, daughter, or spouse, and service performed by a child under the age of 18 in the employ of the father or mother. (2) “Employment” does not include service performed as foster care parents certified by the Department of Human […]
(1) “Employment” does not include service performed in the employ of the United States Government or any instrumentality of the United States, except that if the Congress of the United States permits states to require any instrumentalities of the United States to make payments into an unemployment fund under a state unemployment insurance law, then, […]
(1) As used in this chapter, “employment” does not include service performed or participation by applicants, recipients, beneficiaries, participants, trainees or volunteers: (a) In a community work and training program, as defined in ORS 411.855. (b) In an unemployment work-relief or work-training program when the program is within the meaning of section 3309(b)(5) of the […]
“Employment” does not include service performed for a nonprofit employing unit by an individual receiving rehabilitation or remunerative work in a facility conducted for the purpose of carrying out a program of rehabilitation for individuals whose earning capacity is impaired by age or physical or mental deficiency or injury, or providing remunerative work for individuals […]
“Employment” does not include service performed under the Railroad Unemployment Insurance Act (52 Stat. 1094).
