Source: http://www.oregonlaws.org/ors/657.030
Timestamp: 2014-04-18 06:22:03
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Matched Legal Cases: ['§ 657', '§2', '§5', '§2', '§2', '§1', '§3']

ORS 657.030 - Employment generally - 2011 Oregon Revised Statutes
2011 ORS § 657.030¹
• educational, hospital, nursing, student service exclusions
(1) As used in this chapter, except as provided in ORS 657.035 (Employment), 657.040 (Employment) and 657.043 (Employment) to 657.094 (Employment), 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 this chapter, employment includes service that is:
(b) Required to be covered under this chapter as a condition for employers to receive a full tax credit against the tax imposed by the Federal Unemployment Tax Act.
(3) Notwithstanding subsections (1) and (2) of this section, employment does not include:
(a) Service performed in the employ of a school, college or university, if the service is performed by a student who is enrolled and is regularly attending classes at the school, college or university, or by the spouse of the student, if the spouse is advised at the time the spouse commences to perform the service, that the employment of the spouse is provided under a program to provide financial assistance to the student by the school, college, or university, and the employment is not covered by any program of unemployment insurance.
(b) Service performed in the employ of a hospital, if the service is performed by a patient of the hospital.
(c) Service performed as a student nurse in the employ of a hospital or a nurses training school by an individual who is enrolled in a nurses training school chartered or approved pursuant to the laws of this state.
(d) Service performed by an individual who is enrolled at a nonprofit or public educational institution that normally maintains a regular faculty and curriculum and normally has a regularly organized body of students in attendance at the place where its educational activities are carried on as a student in a full-time program, taken for credit at the institution, that combines academic instruction with work experience, if the service is an integral part of the program, and the program has been approved by the Director of the Employment Department, and the institution has so certified to the employer, except that this paragraph does not apply to service performed in a program established for or on behalf of an employer or group of employers.
(e) Service performed by a full-time student in the employ of an organized camp described in section 3306(c)(20) of the Internal Revenue Code:
(A) If the camp:
(i) Did not operate for more than seven months in the calendar year and did not operate more than seven months in the preceding calendar year; or
(B) If the full-time student performed services in the employ of the camp for less than 13 calendar weeks in the calendar year.
(4) As used in subsection (3)(e) of this section, an individual shall be treated as a full-time student for any period:
(a) During which the individual is enrolled as a full-time student at an educational institution; or
(b) That is between academic years or terms if:
(B) There is a reasonable assurance that the individual will be enrolled for the immediately succeeding academic year or term after the period described in subparagraph (A) of this paragraph. [Amended by 1959 c.405 §2; 1971 c.463 §5; 1975 c.257 §2; 1981 c.77 §2; 1987 c.263 §1; 2011 c.106 §3]
Words service and remunera­tion, as used in this sec­tion, are broad descriptive terms evidencing legislative intent to give law broad and liberal coverage. Petrol Stops NW v. Morgan, 10 Or App 620, 501 P2d 341 (1972); Gross v. Employ­ment Depart­ment, 237 Or App 671, 240 P3d 1130 (2010)
Owner-operator cab driver is not engaged in employ­ment rela­tionship with cab company where company does not remunerate driver but instead, driver pays fee to cab company for certain services. DeRoos v. Employ­ment Division, 65 Or App 578, 672 P2d 63 (1983)
Where peti­tioner performed services for remunera­tion, even though SAIF paid his wages as part of voca­tional rehabilita­tion, services were employ­ment under this sec­tion. White v. Employ­ment Division, 72 Or App 163, 694 P2d 1009 (1985), as modified by 77 Or App 35, 711 P2d 196 (1985)
Where business signed lease with hair stylists allowing them to set their own hours, work elsewhere, schedule their own clients and pay $300 per month for rent, utilities, telephone and some maintenance unless they earned less than $1000, in which case they would pay 30% of earnings, business was not employer of stylists. Employ­ment Division v. Shear Crea­tions, 94 Or App 107, 764 P2d 941 (1988)
Where Federal Unemploy­ment Tax Act does not allow exemp­tion for religious organiza­tions other than churches and church-related organiza­tions, state must tax exempted churches and related organiza­tions to avoid unconstitu­tional discrimina­tion. Employ­ment Div. v. Rogue Valley Youth for Christ, 307 Or 490, 770 P2d 588 (1989)
Employ­ment Division rule classifying claimants receipt of back pay awards for weeks claimant was out of work as employ­ment conflicts with this sec­tion and is invalid. Employ­ment Div. v. Ring, 104 Or App 713, 803 P2d 766 (1990), Sup Ct review denied
Determining employer of musicians group, (1972) Vol 35, p 1306; discrimina­tion in medical benefits provided by employers and labor unions to employees and spouses with respect to pregnancy, childbirth, etc., (1977) Vol 38, p 1239