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OR Rev Stat § 651.170 (2021)
2021 Oregon Revised Statutes|Volume : 16 - Trade Practices, Labor and Employment|Chapter 651 - Bureau of Labor and Industries|Section 651.170 - Payment of expenses.

The Commissioner of the Bureau of Labor and Industries may incur such expense and employ such clerical aids as may be necessary to carry out ORS 651.030, 651.050, 651.060 and 651.120. The Oregon Department of Administrative Services may draw warrants on the State Treasurer for the payment of such expense upon properly verified vouchers approved by the commissioner. However, such expense shall not exceed at any time the amount appropriated therefor. [Amended by 1959 c.627 §10; 1983 c.740 §239; 2003 c.794 §307; 2009 c.161 §5]
OR Rev Stat § 651.180 (2021)
2021 Oregon Revised Statutes|Volume : 16 - Trade Practices, Labor and Employment|Chapter 651 - Bureau of Labor and Industries|Section 651.180

[Amended by 1955 c.138 §3; 1957 c.465 §5; 1959 c.406 §32; renumbered 460.070]
OR Rev Stat § 651.185 (2021)
2021 Oregon Revised Statutes|Volume : 16 - Trade Practices, Labor and Employment|Chapter 651 - Bureau of Labor and Industries|Section 651.185 - Prevailing Wage Education and Enforcement Account.

The Prevailing Wage Education and Enforcement Account is created in the General Fund of the State Treasury. All moneys in the account are appropriated continuously to the Commissioner of the Bureau of Labor and Industries to: (1) Administer and provide investigations under and enforce the provisions of ORS 279C.800 to 279C.870; (2) Provide educational programs on public contracting and purchasing law under ORS 279.835 to 279.855 and ORS chapters 279A, 279B and 279C; and (3) Conduct surveys to determine prevailing wages. [1995 c.594 §7; 1999 c.152 §2; 2003 c.794 §308]
OR Rev Stat § 651.200 (2021)
2021 Oregon Revised Statutes|Volume : 16 - Trade Practices, Labor and Employment|Chapter 651 - Bureau of Labor and Industries|Section 651.200 - Definitions.

As used in this section and ORS 651.205: (1) "Live entertainment" means a presentation given in major part by humans to a live audience. (2) "Live entertainment facility" means a place of public accommodation: (a) That contains 600 or fewer fixed seats; (b) That is operated for profit; (c) That is privately owned; (d) For which the performance of live entertainment is a contributing factor in the generation of revenue for the facility; and (e) For which the number of live entertainment contractors exceeds the number of employees of the facility for at least two days during each week that the facility is open to the public. [2015 c.735 §1] Note: 651.200 and 651.205 were enacted into law by the Legislative Assembly but were not added to or made a part of ORS chapter 651 or any series therein by legislative action. See Preface to Oregon Revised Statutes for further explanation.
OR Rev Stat § 651.205 (2021)
2021 Oregon Revised Statutes|Volume : 16 - Trade Practices, Labor and Employment|Chapter 651 - Bureau of Labor and Industries|Section 651.205 - Posting notice of workplace rights for live entertainers; establishment of hotline for inquiries and complaints from live entertainers; confidentiality.

(1) The operator of a live entertainment facility shall display the poster developed by the Commissioner of the Bureau of Labor and Industries under subsection (2) of this section in a conspicuous manner in a sufficient number of places in the establishment to be read by all persons working in the establishment. (2)(a) The Commissioner of the Bureau of Labor and Industries shall develop a poster that includes: (A) A summary of the rights of independent contractors and employees who perform live entertainment; (B) A description of the services offered through and the toll-free telephone number of the live entertainer hotline established under subsection (3) of this section; and (C) Any additional information determined to be necessary by the commissioner. (b) The Bureau of Labor and Industries shall publish the poster developed by the commissioner under this subsection on the bureau’s website and shall make the poster available to the public at no cost. (3)(a) The bureau shall implement and maintain a toll-free telephone hotline to receive inquiries and complaints related to employment in the performance of live entertainment. (b) A caller to the hotline may remain anonymous and may request that the inquiry or complaint remain confidential. (c) The bureau shall staff the hotline on a half-time basis with a person or persons who have a background in providing live entertainment as an independent contractor or a background in the operation of a crisis line. (d) The bureau may share information that has not been designated confidential by a hotline caller with agencies participating in the Interagency Compliance Network established under ORS 670.700, law enforcement agencies or any other agency designated by the commissioner. [2015 c.735 §2] Note: See note under 651.200.
OR Rev Stat § 651.990 (2021)
2021 Oregon Revised Statutes|Volume : 16 - Trade Practices, Labor and Employment|Chapter 651 - Bureau of Labor and Industries|Section 651.990 - Penalties.

(1) Willful neglect or refusal by any person subpoenaed under ORS 651.060 to attend or testify at the time and place named in the subpoena is a Class C misdemeanor. (2) Violation of ORS 651.120 (2) is a Class C misdemeanor. [Amended by 1983 c.740 §240; 2011 c.597 §262]
OR Rev Stat § 652.010 (2021)
2021 Oregon Revised Statutes|Volume : 16 - Trade Practices, Labor and Employment|Chapter 652 - Hours; Wages; Wage Claims; Records|Section 652.010 - Declaration of public policy concerning maximum working hours in certain industries.

(1) It is the public policy of this state that no person shall be hired, nor permitted to work for wages, under any conditions or terms, for longer hours or days of service than is consistent with the person’s health and physical well-being and ability to promote the general welfare by the person’s increasing usefulness as a healthy and intelligent citizen. (2) It hereby is declared that the working of any person more than 10 hours in one day in any mill, factory or other manufacturing establishment or the working of any person more than eight hours, exclusive of one hour, more or less, in one day, or more than 48 hours in one workweek, as defined in ORS 652.020, in sawmills, planing mills, shingle mills and logging camps is injurious to the physical health and well-being of such person, and tends to prevent the person from acquiring that degree of intelligence that is necessary to make the person a useful and desirable citizen of the state. [Amended by 2017 c.685 §13]
OR Rev Stat § 652.030 (2021)
2021 Oregon Revised Statutes|Volume : 16 - Trade Practices, Labor and Employment|Chapter 652 - Hours; Wages; Wage Claims; Records|Section 652.030 - Enforcement of ORS 652.010 and 652.020 dependent upon like laws in other states.

ORS 652.010 and 652.020 shall not be enforced insofar as they relate to working hours in sawmills, planing mills, shingle mills and logging camps until laws containing like provisions regarding working hours in such places of employment in the States of California, Washington and Idaho become effective in each of those states respectively.
OR Rev Stat § 652.035 (2021)
2021 Oregon Revised Statutes|Volume : 16 - Trade Practices, Labor and Employment|Chapter 652 - Hours; Wages; Wage Claims; Records|Section 652.035 - Violations of certain laws relating to maximum working hours and minimum employment conditions; remedies; retaliation prohibited.

(1) Any employee asserting a violation of ORS 652.020, 653.263 or 653.265 may file a complaint with the Commissioner of the Bureau of Labor and Industries under ORS 659A.820 or a civil action as provided in ORS 659A.885. (2) In addition to any other damages provided by law, the commissioner may assess a civil penalty against the employer in the amount of $1,000. (3) The commissioner shall waive 50 percent of the amount of any civil penalty imposed by order under this section if the commissioner determines that the employer paid the full remedy due, not including any civil penalty, within 14 days after the order imposing the remedy became final by operation of law or on appeal. (4) Civil penalties authorized by this section shall be imposed in the manner provided in ORS 183.745. (5) An employer may not retaliate or in any way discriminate against an individual with respect to hire or tenure or any other term or condition of employment because the individual has inquired about the provisions of this section or ORS 652.020, 653.261 or 653.265 or has reported a violation to, or filed a complaint with, the Bureau of Labor and Industries. [2017 c.685 §11] Note: 652.035 was enacted into law by the Legislative Assembly but was not added to or made a part of ORS chapter 652 or any series therein by legislative action. See Preface to Oregon Revised Statutes for further explanation.
OR Rev Stat § 652.040 (2021)
2021 Oregon Revised Statutes|Volume : 16 - Trade Practices, Labor and Employment|Chapter 652 - Hours; Wages; Wage Claims; Records|Section 652.040 - Maximum working hours in mines.

(1) No person who operates any underground mine yielding gold or silver or copper or lead or other metal shall permit or require any person to work in such underground mine for more than eight hours in any 24 hours. The hours for such employment or work day shall be consecutive excluding, however, any intermission of time for lunch or meals. (2) In the case of emergency, where life or property is in imminent danger, persons may work in such underground mines for a longer time during the continuance of the exigency or emergency. This section does not apply to mines in their first stages of development, such as tunnel work to a length of 200 feet, or shaft work to a depth of 150 feet, or to any surface excavation.
OR Rev Stat § 652.050 (2021)
2021 Oregon Revised Statutes|Volume : 16 - Trade Practices, Labor and Employment|Chapter 652 - Hours; Wages; Wage Claims; Records|Section 652.050 - Definitions for ORS 652.050 to 652.080.

As used in ORS 652.050 to 652.080: (1) "Firefighter" means a person whose principal duties consist of preventing or combating fire or preventing loss of life or property from fire. (2) "Regularly organized fire department" means any organization maintained for the purpose of preventing or combating fire and employing one or more persons on a full-time basis as firefighters. (3) "Volunteer firefighter" means a person who performs services as a firefighter for a regularly organized fire department and whose work hours and work shifts are voluntary and whose volunteer service is not a condition of employment. [Amended by 1983 c.319 §1]
OR Rev Stat § 652.060 (2021)
2021 Oregon Revised Statutes|Volume : 16 - Trade Practices, Labor and Employment|Chapter 652 - Hours; Wages; Wage Claims; Records|Section 652.060 - Maximum working hours for firefighters.

(1)(a) No person employed on a full-time basis as a firefighter by any regularly organized fire department maintained by any incorporated city, municipality or fire district and that employs not more than three persons on a full-time basis as firefighters shall be required to be on regular duty with such fire department more than 72 hours a week. However, any affected incorporated city, municipality or fire district shall be deemed to have complied with this paragraph and ORS 652.070 if the hours of regular duty required of firefighters employed by it average not more than 72 hours a week over each quarter of the fiscal year of the employing city, municipality or fire district. (b) No person employed on a full-time basis as a firefighter by any regularly organized fire department maintained by any incorporated city, municipality or fire district and that employs four or more persons on a full-time basis as firefighters shall be required to be on regular duty with such fire department more than 56 hours a week. However, any affected incorporated city, municipality or fire district shall be deemed to have complied with this paragraph and ORS 652.070 if the hours of regular duty required of firefighters employed by it average not more than 56 hours a week over each quarter of the fiscal year of the employing city, municipality or fire district. (2) In the event this section shortens the working hours of firefighters employed by any such city, municipality or fire district, the total wages of such firefighters shall not for that reason be reduced. [Amended by 1959 c.402 §1; 1969 c.581 §1]
OR Rev Stat § 652.070 (2021)
2021 Oregon Revised Statutes|Volume : 16 - Trade Practices, Labor and Employment|Chapter 652 - Hours; Wages; Wage Claims; Records|Section 652.070 - Overtime pay for firefighters.

(1) Every affected incorporated city, municipality and fire district shall put into effect and maintain a schedule of working hours required of regularly employed firefighters which shall not be in excess of the average hours established by ORS 652.060, and which shall provide for at least 48 consecutive hours off-duty time in each seven-day period. Any affected incorporated city, municipality or fire district failing so to do shall pay to every regularly employed firefighter as additional pay for every hour of regular duty required of and performed by the firefighter over and above the average hours established by ORS 652.060 a sum equivalent to one and one-half times the regular hourly rate of pay at the time of such default. However, in the case of replacement for any authorized leave, vacation or temporary vacancy, regularly employed firefighters in a department employing four or more persons on a full-time basis as firefighters may elect to work in excess of 56 hours a week at not less than their regular hourly rate of pay. (2) Nothing in subsection (1) of this section requires payment of one and one-half times the hourly rate of pay to a volunteer firefighter for hours of duty performed in excess of the average hours established by ORS 652.060. [Amended by 1959 c.402 §2; 1969 c.581 §2; 1983 c.319 §2]
OR Rev Stat § 652.080 (2021)
2021 Oregon Revised Statutes|Volume : 16 - Trade Practices, Labor and Employment|Chapter 652 - Hours; Wages; Wage Claims; Records|Section 652.080 - Computing hours on duty for purposes of ORS 652.060 and 652.070.

In computing the average or total number of hours a week for the purposes of ORS 652.060 and 652.070, authorized vacation or sick leave time shall be considered as time on regular duty. [1959 c.402 §4]
OR Rev Stat § 652.100 (2021)
2021 Oregon Revised Statutes|Volume : 16 - Trade Practices, Labor and Employment|Chapter 652 - Hours; Wages; Wage Claims; Records|Section 652.100 - False information related to hours worked or compensation received by employees; prohibited acts by employer; employee right of action; remedies for violation; penalties.

An employer may not: (1) Compel, coerce or otherwise induce or attempt to induce an employee to create, file or sign documents containing information that the employer knows is false related to the hours worked or compensation received by the employee. (2) In addition to any other remedy provided by law, an employee has a private cause of action for a violation of subsection (1) of this section. The court may award actual damages or $1,000 for each violation, whichever is greater, injunctive relief, attorney fees and costs. The court shall count each pay period in which a violation occurs or continues as a separate violation. (3) In addition to any other relief provided by law, the Commissioner of the Bureau of Labor and Industries may assess a civil penalty under ORS 183.745 not to exceed $1,000 for each violation of subsection (1) of this section. The commissioner shall count each pay period in which a violation occurs or continues as a separate violation. (4) The commissioner has the same enforcement powers with respect to the rights established under subsections (1) to (3) of this section as are established in this chapter and ORS chapter 653. [2017 c.211 §2]
OR Rev Stat § 652.110 (2021)
2021 Oregon Revised Statutes|Volume : 16 - Trade Practices, Labor and Employment|Chapter 652 - Hours; Wages; Wage Claims; Records|Section 652.110 - Method of paying employees; agreement on method of payment; revocation of agreement.

(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 bank or other established place of business in the county where the employee lives or works and where a sufficient amount of funds have been provided and are or will be available for the payment of the instrument when due. The person shall, upon presentation and demand, pay the instrument in lawful money of the United States. (2) This section does not in any way limit or interfere with the right of any employee to accept from any person, as an evidence or acknowledgment of indebtedness for wages due the employee, a negotiable instrument, payable at some future date with interest. (3) An employer may pay wages without discount through direct deposit of wages due to an employee into the employee’s account in a financial institution, as defined in ORS 706.008, in this state. (4) An employer shall pay wages due to an employee by check upon the written or oral request of the employee. (5) An employer and an employee may agree that the employer may pay wages through an automated teller machine card, payroll card or other means of electronic transfer if the employee may: (a) Make an initial withdrawal of the entire amount of net pay without cost to the employee; or (b) Choose to use another means of payment of wages that involves no cost to the employee. (6) An agreement described in subsection (5) of this section must be made in the language that the employer principally uses to communicate with the employee. (7)(a) Except as provided in paragraph (b) of this subsection, to revoke an agreement described in subsection (5) of this section, an employee shall give the employer a written notice of revocation of the agreement. Unless the employer and employee agree otherwise, the agreement is revoked 30 days after the date the notice is received by the employer. (b) To revoke an agreement described in subsection (5) of this section, an employee who works for an employer as a seasonal farmworker as defined in ORS 652.145 or an employee who is employed in packing, canning, freezing or drying any variety of agricultural crops shall give the employer notice of revocation of the agreement either orally or in writing. Unless the employer and the employee agree otherwise, the agreement is revoked 10 days after the date the notice is received by the employer. (8) Nothing in this section is intended to limit the rights of an employee or otherwise affect an employee covered by a collective bargaining agreement. [Amended by 1975 c.191 §1; 1999 c.59 §191; 2007 c.546 §1; 2013 c.380 §1]
OR Rev Stat § 652.120 (2021)
2021 Oregon Revised Statutes|Volume : 16 - Trade Practices, Labor and Employment|Chapter 652 - Hours; Wages; Wage Claims; Records|Section 652.120 - Establishing regular payday; pay intervals; agreement to pay wages at future date.

(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 payday. (3) This section does not prevent the employer from establishing and maintaining paydays at more frequent intervals. (4) This section does not prevent any employer from entering into a written agreement, prior to the rendering of any services, and mutually satisfactory with the employer’s employees, as to the payment of wages at a future date. (5) When an employer has notice that an employee has not been paid the full amount the employee is owed on a regular payday and there is no dispute between the employer and the employee regarding the amount of the unpaid wages: (a) If the unpaid amount is less than five percent of the employee’s gross wages due on the regular payday, the employer shall pay the employee the unpaid amount no later than the next regular payday; or (b) If the unpaid amount is five percent or more of the employee’s gross wages due on the regular payday, the employer shall pay the employee the unpaid amount within three days after the employer has notice of the unpaid amount, excluding Saturdays, Sundays and holidays. [Amended by 1961 c.662 §1; 2007 c.453 §1]
OR Rev Stat § 652.125 (2021)
2021 Oregon Revised Statutes|Volume : 16 - Trade Practices, Labor and Employment|Chapter 652 - Hours; Wages; Wage Claims; Records|Section 652.125 - Bond required when failure to make timely wage payment occurs; court to enjoin business of employer failing to provide bond.

(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 commissioner determines necessary, with sufficient surety, to assure timely payment of wages due employees for such future period as the commissioner considers appropriate. In lieu of a bond, the commissioner may accept a letter of credit from an issuer approved by the commissioner, upon such terms and conditions and for such amount as the commissioner determines necessary to assure timely payment of wages for such future period as the commissioner determines appropriate. (2) If, within 10 days after demand for such bond, the employer fails to provide the same, the commissioner may commence court action against the employer in the circuit court of appropriate jurisdiction to compel the employer to furnish such bond or cease doing business until the employer has done so. The employer shall have the burden of proving the amount thereof to be excessive. (3) If the court finds that there is just cause for requiring such bond and that the same is reasonably necessary or appropriate to secure the prompt payment of the wages of the employees of such employer, the court shall enjoin such employer from doing business in this state until the requirement is met, or shall make other, and may make further, orders appropriate to compel compliance with the requirement. [1989 c.651 §3] Note: 652.125 was enacted into law by the Legislative Assembly but was not added to or made a part of ORS chapter 652 or any series therein by legislative action. See Preface to Oregon Revised Statutes for further explanation.
OR Rev Stat § 652.130 (2021)
2021 Oregon Revised Statutes|Volume : 16 - Trade Practices, Labor and Employment|Chapter 652 - Hours; Wages; Wage Claims; Records|Section 652.130 - Payment of wages due persons employed on piece work scale or quantity basis in forest product industries; furnishing statement of scale or quantity produced.

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 employees at least once monthly, a statement of scale or quantity produced by them to their credit, and shall pay all wages or amounts so earned and due and payable under the law regulating paydays.