(1) A person engaged in any business or enterprise of any kind in this state may not issue, in payment of or as evidence of indebtedness for wages due an employee, any order, check, memorandum or other instrument of indebtedness unless the instrument is negotiable and payable without discount in cash on demand at some […]
(1) Every employer shall establish and maintain a regular payday, at which date the employer shall pay all employees the wages due and owing to them. (2) Payday may not extend beyond a period of 35 days from the time that the employees entered upon their work, or from the date of the last regular […]
(1) If, upon complaint by an employee, and after investigation, it appears to the Commissioner of the Bureau of Labor and Industries that an employer is failing to pay wages within five days of a payday scheduled by the employer, the commissioner may require the employer to give a bond in such amount as the […]
Every person engaged in the business of logging or obtaining or securing sawlogs, poles, spars, piles, cordwood, posts or other timber or forest products, or engaged in the business of manufacturing sawlogs or other timber into lumber, and employing one or more employees on a piece work scale or quantity wage basis, shall furnish such […]
(1) When an employer discharges an employee or when employment is terminated by mutual agreement, all wages earned and unpaid at the time of the discharge or termination become due and payable not later than the end of the first business day after the discharge or termination. (2)(a) When an employee who does not have […]
(1) Notwithstanding ORS 652.140, if an employee has worked for an employer as a seasonal farmworker, whenever the employment terminates, all wages earned and unpaid become due and payable immediately except: (a) Wages are due and payable by noon on the day after termination of the employment of the seasonal farmworker if: (A) The termination […]
(1) Except as provided in subsections (2) and (3) of this section, if an employer willfully fails to pay any wages or compensation of any employee whose employment ceases, as provided in ORS 652.140 and 652.145, then, as a penalty for the nonpayment, the wages or compensation of the employee shall continue from the due […]
In case of dispute over wages, the employer must pay, without condition, and within the time set by ORS 652.140, all wages conceded by the employer to be due, leaving the employee all remedies the employee might otherwise have or be entitled to as to any balance the employee might claim.
In accordance with any applicable provision of ORS chapter 183, the Commissioner of the Bureau of Labor and Industries may adopt rules to carry out the provisions of ORS 652.140 to 652.160. [1995 c.501 §3]
When any number of employees enter upon a strike, the wages due such striking employees at the time of entering upon such strike shall not become due and payable until the next regular payday after the commencement of such strike, if the time between the commencement of the strike and the next regular payday does […]
All wages earned by an employee, not exceeding $10,000, shall, upon the employee’s death, become due and payable to the employee’s surviving spouse, or if there is no surviving spouse, the dependent children, or their guardians or the conservators of their estates, in equal shares, to the same extent as if the wages had been […]
(1) An employer that issues to an employee a dishonored check for payment of wages due is liable to the employee for the remedies provided in ORS 30.701. (2) Except as provided in subsection (3) of this section, the Commissioner of the Bureau of Labor and Industries may assess a civil penalty in an amount […]
(1) In any action for the collection of any order, check, memorandum or other instrument of indebtedness referred to in ORS 652.110, if it is shown that the order, check, memorandum or other instrument of indebtedness was not paid for a period of 48 hours, excluding Saturdays, Sundays and holidays, after presentation and demand for […]
As used in ORS 652.210 to 652.235, unless the context requires otherwise: (1)(a) “Compensation” includes wages, salary, bonuses, benefits, fringe benefits and equity-based compensation. (b) “Compensation” does not include vaccine incentives. (2) “Employee” means any individual who, otherwise than as a copartner of the employer, as an independent contractor or as a participant in a […]
(1) It is an unlawful employment practice under ORS chapter 659A for an employer to: (a) In any manner discriminate between employees on the basis of a protected class in the payment of wages or other compensation for work of comparable character. (b) Pay wages or other compensation to any employee at a rate greater […]
(1) Any employee whose compensation is at a rate that is in violation of ORS 652.220 shall have a right of action against the employer for the recovery of: (a) The amount of the unpaid wages to which the employee is entitled for the one year period preceding the commencement of the action; and (b) […]
(1) In a civil action under ORS 652.230 or 659A.885 (1) alleging a violation of ORS 652.220, the employer may file a motion to disallow an award of compensatory and punitive damages. The court shall grant the motion if the employer demonstrates, by a preponderance of the evidence, that the employer: (a) Completed, within three […]
Where any statute or contract requires an employer to maintain the designated wage scale, it shall be unlawful to secretly pay a lower wage while purporting to pay the wage designated by statute or by contract. [1957 c.243 §1]
A public employee who takes part without pay in a search or rescue operation at the request of any law enforcement agency, the Department of Transportation, the United States Forest Service or any local organization for civil defense, shall not forfeit wages while engaged in an operation for a period of not more than five […]
(1) A home health agency providing home health services may not compensate a nurse providing home health services for the agency on a per-visit basis. (2) A hospice program providing hospice services may not compensate a nurse providing hospice services for the program on a per-visit basis. (3)(a) The Bureau of Labor and Industries shall […]
