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OR Rev Stat § 653.626 (2021)
2021 Oregon Revised Statutes|Volume : 16 - Trade Practices, Labor and Employment|Chapter 653 - Minimum Wages; Employment Conditions; Minors|Section 653.626 - Medical verification.

(1)(a) If an employee takes more than three consecutive scheduled workdays of sick time for a purpose described in ORS 653.616 (1) to (4), an employer may require the employee to provide verification from a health care provider of the need for the sick time, or certification of the need for leave for purposes of ORS 659A.272 as provided in ORS 659A.280. (b) If the need for sick time is foreseeable and is projected to last more than three scheduled workdays and an employee is required to provide notice under ORS 653.621, the employer may require that verification or certification be provided before the sick time commences or as soon as otherwise practicable. (c) If the employee commences sick time without providing prior notice required by the employer under ORS 653.621: (A) Medical verification shall be provided to the employer within 15 calendar days after the employer requests the verification; or (B) Certification provided as specified in ORS 659A.280 shall be provided to the employer within a reasonable time after the employee receives the request for certification. (2) The employer shall pay any reasonable costs for providing medical verification or certification required under this section, including lost wages, that are not paid under a health benefit plan in which the employee is enrolled. (3)(a) An employer may not require that the verification or certification required under this section explain the nature of the illness or details related to the domestic violence, sexual assault, harassment, or stalking that necessitates the use of sick time. (b) If an employer suspects that an employee is abusing sick time, including engaging in a pattern of abuse, the employer may require verification from a health care provider of the need of the employee to use sick time, regardless of whether the employee has used sick time for more than three consecutive days. As used in this paragraph, "pattern of abuse" includes, but is not limited to, repeated use of unscheduled sick time on or adjacent to weekends, holidays, vacation days or paydays. (4) As used in this section, "health care provider" has the meaning given that term in ORS 659A.150. [2015 c.537 §8]
OR Rev Stat § 653.631 (2021)
2021 Oregon Revised Statutes|Volume : 16 - Trade Practices, Labor and Employment|Chapter 653 - Minimum Wages; Employment Conditions; Minors|Section 653.631 - Accrual amount records.

(1) An employer shall: (a) Provide written notification at least quarterly to each employee of the amount of accrued and unused sick time available for use by the employee. Inclusion of the amount of accrued and used sick time on the statement required under ORS 652.610 meets the requirements of this paragraph. (b) Provide written notice of the requirements of ORS 653.601 to 653.661 to each employee in accordance with rules adopted by the Commissioner of the Bureau of Labor and Industries. (2) The notices provided under this section must be in the language the employer typically uses to communicate with the employee. (3) The Bureau of Labor and Industries shall make available to employers a template that meets the required notice provisions of this section. (4) Health information of an employee related to sick time is confidential and may not be released without the permission of the employee. Information pertaining to leave under ORS 659A.272 that is provided by an employee in accordance with ORS 653.601 to 653.661 is confidential as provided in ORS 659A.280. [2015 c.537 §9]
OR Rev Stat § 653.636 (2021)
2021 Oregon Revised Statutes|Volume : 16 - Trade Practices, Labor and Employment|Chapter 653 - Minimum Wages; Employment Conditions; Minors|Section 653.636 - Minimum requirements.

ORS 653.601 to 653.661 establish minimum requirements pertaining to sick time and may not be construed to preempt, limit or otherwise affect the applicability of any employer policy, standard or collective bargaining agreement that provides for greater use of paid or unpaid sick time. [2015 c.537 §10]
OR Rev Stat § 653.641 (2021)
2021 Oregon Revised Statutes|Volume : 16 - Trade Practices, Labor and Employment|Chapter 653 - Minimum Wages; Employment Conditions; Minors|Section 653.641 - Unlawful practices.

It is an unlawful practice for an employer or any other person to: (1) Deny, interfere with, restrain or fail to pay for sick time to which an employee is entitled under ORS 653.601 to 653.661; (2) Retaliate or in any way discriminate against an employee with respect to any term or condition of employment because the employee has inquired about the provisions of ORS 653.601 to 653.661, submitted a request for sick time, taken sick time, participated in any manner in an investigation, proceeding or hearing related to ORS 653.601 to 653.661, or invoked any provision of ORS 653.601 to 653.661; or (3) Apply an absence control policy that includes sick time absences covered under ORS 653.601 to 653.661 as an absence that may lead to or result in an adverse employment action against the employee. [2015 c.537 §11]
OR Rev Stat § 653.651 (2021)
2021 Oregon Revised Statutes|Volume : 16 - Trade Practices, Labor and Employment|Chapter 653 - Minimum Wages; Employment Conditions; Minors|Section 653.651 - Enforcement.

(1) An employee asserting a violation of ORS 653.641 (2) or (3) 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) The commissioner has the same enforcement powers with respect to the rights established under ORS 653.601 to 653.661 as are established in ORS chapters 652 and 653. [2015 c.537 §13]
OR Rev Stat § 653.656 (2021)
2021 Oregon Revised Statutes|Volume : 16 - Trade Practices, Labor and Employment|Chapter 653 - Minimum Wages; Employment Conditions; Minors|Section 653.656 - Rules.

The Commissioner of the Bureau of Labor and Industries: (1) Shall enforce the provisions of ORS 653.601 to 653.661; and (2) May adopt rules necessary for the implementation and enforcement of ORS 653.601 to 653.661. [2015 c.537 §14]
OR Rev Stat § 653.661 (2021)
2021 Oregon Revised Statutes|Volume : 16 - Trade Practices, Labor and Employment|Chapter 653 - Minimum Wages; Employment Conditions; Minors|Section 653.661 - Preemption.

The State of Oregon preempts all charter and statutory authority of local governments as defined in ORS 174.116 to set any sick leave requirements. [2015 c.537 §15]
OR Rev Stat § 653.705 (2021)
2021 Oregon Revised Statutes|Volume : 16 - Trade Practices, Labor and Employment|Chapter 653 - Minimum Wages; Employment Conditions; Minors|Section 653.705

[1987 c.591 §2; 1997 c.170 §35; renumbered 735.700 in 2001]
OR Rev Stat § 653.715 (2021)
2021 Oregon Revised Statutes|Volume : 16 - Trade Practices, Labor and Employment|Chapter 653 - Minimum Wages; Employment Conditions; Minors|Section 653.715

[1987 c.591 §1; 1997 c.170 §36; 1999 c.547 §1; 2001 c.943 §19; renumbered 735.702 in 2001]
OR Rev Stat § 653.725 (2021)
2021 Oregon Revised Statutes|Volume : 16 - Trade Practices, Labor and Employment|Chapter 653 - Minimum Wages; Employment Conditions; Minors|Section 653.725

[1987 c.591 §3; 1989 c.381 §17; renumbered 735.704 in 2001]
OR Rev Stat § 653.735 (2021)
2021 Oregon Revised Statutes|Volume : 16 - Trade Practices, Labor and Employment|Chapter 653 - Minimum Wages; Employment Conditions; Minors|Section 653.735

[1987 c.591 §5; renumbered 735.708 in 2001]
OR Rev Stat § 653.745 (2021)
2021 Oregon Revised Statutes|Volume : 16 - Trade Practices, Labor and Employment|Chapter 653 - Minimum Wages; Employment Conditions; Minors|Section 653.745

[1987 c.591 §§6,7; 1997 c.170 §37; 1999 c.547 §2; 2001 c.943 §20; renumbered 735.710 in 2001]
OR Rev Stat § 653.747 (2021)
2021 Oregon Revised Statutes|Volume : 16 - Trade Practices, Labor and Employment|Chapter 653 - Minimum Wages; Employment Conditions; Minors|Section 653.747

[1993 c.815 §34; 1999 c.547 §3; renumbered 735.712 in 2001]
OR Rev Stat § 653.767 (2021)
2021 Oregon Revised Statutes|Volume : 16 - Trade Practices, Labor and Employment|Chapter 653 - Minimum Wages; Employment Conditions; Minors|Section 653.767

[1989 c.1092 §2; renumbered 279.315 in 1993]
OR Rev Stat § 653.800 (2021)
2021 Oregon Revised Statutes|Volume : 16 - Trade Practices, Labor and Employment|Chapter 653 - Minimum Wages; Employment Conditions; Minors|Section 653.800

[1997 c.683 §2; 1999 c.634 §1; renumbered 735.720 in 2001]
OR Rev Stat § 653.805 (2021)
2021 Oregon Revised Statutes|Volume : 16 - Trade Practices, Labor and Employment|Chapter 653 - Minimum Wages; Employment Conditions; Minors|Section 653.805

[1997 c.683 §3; renumbered 735.722 in 2001]
OR Rev Stat § 653.810 (2021)
2021 Oregon Revised Statutes|Volume : 16 - Trade Practices, Labor and Employment|Chapter 653 - Minimum Wages; Employment Conditions; Minors|Section 653.810

[1997 c.683 §5; 1999 c.634 §2; renumbered 735.724 in 2001]
OR Rev Stat § 653.815 (2021)
2021 Oregon Revised Statutes|Volume : 16 - Trade Practices, Labor and Employment|Chapter 653 - Minimum Wages; Employment Conditions; Minors|Section 653.815

[1997 c.683 §6; 1999 c.634 §3; renumbered 735.726 in 2001]
OR Rev Stat § 653.820 (2021)
2021 Oregon Revised Statutes|Volume : 16 - Trade Practices, Labor and Employment|Chapter 653 - Minimum Wages; Employment Conditions; Minors|Section 653.820

[1997 c.683 §7; 1999 c.634 §4; renumbered 735.728 in 2001]
OR Rev Stat § 653.825 (2021)
2021 Oregon Revised Statutes|Volume : 16 - Trade Practices, Labor and Employment|Chapter 653 - Minimum Wages; Employment Conditions; Minors|Section 653.825

[1997 c.683 §8; renumbered 735.730 in 2001]
OR Rev Stat § 653.830 (2021)
2021 Oregon Revised Statutes|Volume : 16 - Trade Practices, Labor and Employment|Chapter 653 - Minimum Wages; Employment Conditions; Minors|Section 653.830

[1997 c.683 §9; renumbered 735.732 in 2001]
OR Rev Stat § 653.835 (2021)
2021 Oregon Revised Statutes|Volume : 16 - Trade Practices, Labor and Employment|Chapter 653 - Minimum Wages; Employment Conditions; Minors|Section 653.835

[1997 c.683 §4; renumbered 735.734 in 2001]
OR Rev Stat § 653.840 (2021)
2021 Oregon Revised Statutes|Volume : 16 - Trade Practices, Labor and Employment|Chapter 653 - Minimum Wages; Employment Conditions; Minors|Section 653.840

[1997 c.683 §11; renumbered 735.736 in 2001]
OR Rev Stat § 653.845 (2021)
2021 Oregon Revised Statutes|Volume : 16 - Trade Practices, Labor and Employment|Chapter 653 - Minimum Wages; Employment Conditions; Minors|Section 653.845

[1997 c.683 §12; renumbered 735.738 in 2001]
OR Rev Stat § 653.850 (2021)
2021 Oregon Revised Statutes|Volume : 16 - Trade Practices, Labor and Employment|Chapter 653 - Minimum Wages; Employment Conditions; Minors|Section 653.850

[1997 c.683 §10; 1999 c.634 §5; renumbered 735.740 in 2001]
OR Rev Stat § 653.991 (2021)
2021 Oregon Revised Statutes|Volume : 16 - Trade Practices, Labor and Employment|Chapter 653 - Minimum Wages; Employment Conditions; Minors|Section 653.991 - Penalties.

Violation of any provision of this section or ORS 653.010 to 653.565 or of any rule adopted by the Bureau of Labor and Industries under ORS 653.307 is punishable as a misdemeanor. [1971 c.626 §6; 1993 c.18 §138; 2013 c.296 §28]
OR Rev Stat § 654.001 (2021)
2021 Oregon Revised Statutes|Volume : 16 - Trade Practices, Labor and Employment|Chapter 654 - Occupational Safety and Health|Section 654.001 - Short title.

ORS 654.001 to 654.295, 654.412 to 654.423, 654.750 to 654.780 and 654.991 may be cited as the Oregon Safe Employment Act. [1973 c.833 §2]
OR Rev Stat § 654.003 (2021)
2021 Oregon Revised Statutes|Volume : 16 - Trade Practices, Labor and Employment|Chapter 654 - Occupational Safety and Health|Section 654.003 - Purpose.

The purpose of the Oregon Safe Employment Act is to ensure as far as possible safe and healthful working conditions for every working person in Oregon, to preserve our human resources and to reduce the substantial burden, in terms of lost production, wage loss, medical expenses, disability compensation payments and human suffering, that is created by occupational injury and disease. To accomplish this purpose the Legislative Assembly intends to provide a procedure that will: (1) Encourage employers and employees to reduce the number of occupational safety and health hazards and to institute new programs and improve existing programs for providing safe and healthful working conditions. (2) Establish a coordinated program of worker and employer education, health and safety consultative services, demonstration projects and research to assist workers and their employers in preventing occupational injury and disease, whatever the cause. (3) Authorize the Director of the Department of Consumer and Business Services and the designees of the director to set reasonable, mandatory, occupational safety and health standards for all employments and places of employment. (4) Provide an effective program, under the director, to enforce all laws, regulations, rules and standards adopted for the protection of the life, safety and health of employees, and in so doing, predominantly prioritize inspections of places of employment to first focus enforcement activities upon places of employment that the director reasonably believes to be the most unsafe. (5) Establish appropriate reporting and research procedures that will help achieve the objectives of the Oregon Safe Employment Act, identify occupational hazards and unsafe and unhealthy working conditions, and describe the nature of the occupational safety and health problem. (6) Assure that Oregon assumes fullest responsibility, in accord with the federal Occupational Safety and Health Act of 1970 (29 U.S.C. 651 et seq.), for the development, administration and enforcement of safety and health laws and standards. [1973 c.833 §3; 1987 c.884 §55; 1999 c.1017 §1; 2017 c.238 §1]
OR Rev Stat § 654.005 (2021)
2021 Oregon Revised Statutes|Volume : 16 - Trade Practices, Labor and Employment|Chapter 654 - Occupational Safety and Health|Section 654.005 - Definitions.

As used in this chapter, unless the context requires otherwise: (1) "Board" means the Workers’ Compensation Board created by ORS 656.712. (2) "Department" means the Department of Consumer and Business Services. (3) "Director" means the Director of the Department of Consumer and Business Services. (4) "Employee" includes: (a) Any individual, including a minor whether lawfully or unlawfully employed, who engages to furnish services for a remuneration, financial or otherwise, subject to the direction and control of an employer. (b) Salaried, elected and appointed officials of the state, state agencies, counties, cities, school districts and other public corporations. (c) Any individual who is provided with workers’ compensation coverage as a subject worker pursuant to ORS chapter 656, whether by operation of law or by election. (5) "Employer" includes: (a) Any person who has one or more employees. (b) Any sole proprietor or member of a partnership who elects workers’ compensation coverage as a subject worker pursuant to ORS 656.128. (c) Any successor or assignee of an employer. As used in this paragraph, "successor" means a business or enterprise that is substantially the same entity as the predecessor employer according to criteria adopted by the department by rule. (6) "Owner" means every person having ownership, control or custody of any place of employment or of the construction, repair or maintenance of any place of employment. (7) "Person" means one or more individuals, legal representatives, partnerships, joint ventures, associations, corporations (whether or not organized for profit), business trusts, any organized group of persons, the state, state agencies, counties, municipal corporations, school districts and other public corporations or subdivisions. (8)(a) "Place of employment" includes: (A) Every place, whether fixed or movable or moving, whether indoors or out or underground, and the premises and structures appurtenant thereto, where either temporarily or permanently an employee works or is intended to work; and (B) Every place where there is carried on any process, operation or activity related, either directly or indirectly, to an employer’s industry, trade, business or occupation, including a labor camp, wherever located, provided by an employer for employees or by another person engaged in providing living quarters or shelters for employees. (b) "Place of employment" does not include: (A) Any place where the only employment involves nonsubject workers employed in or about a private home; and (B) Any corporate farm where the only employment involves the farm’s family members, including parents, spouses, sisters, brothers, daughters, sons, daughters-in-law, sons-in-law, nieces, nephews or grandchildren. [Amended by 1973 c.833 §4; 1975 c.102 §2; 1977 c.804 §34; 1987 c.373 §30; 1993 c.744 §17; 1999 c.433 §1; 2007 c.612 §1]
OR Rev Stat § 654.010 (2021)
2021 Oregon Revised Statutes|Volume : 16 - Trade Practices, Labor and Employment|Chapter 654 - Occupational Safety and Health|Section 654.010 - Employers to furnish safe place of employment.

Every employer shall furnish employment and a place of employment which are safe and healthful for employees therein, and shall furnish and use such devices and safeguards, and shall adopt and use such practices, means, methods, operations and processes as are reasonably necessary to render such employment and place of employment safe and healthful, and shall do every other thing reasonably necessary to protect the life, safety and health of such employees. [Amended by 1973 c.833 §5]
OR Rev Stat § 654.015 (2021)
2021 Oregon Revised Statutes|Volume : 16 - Trade Practices, Labor and Employment|Chapter 654 - Occupational Safety and Health|Section 654.015 - Unsafe or unhealthy place of employment prohibited.

No employer or owner shall construct or cause to be constructed or maintained any place of employment that is unsafe or detrimental to health. [Amended by 1973 c.833 §6]
OR Rev Stat § 654.020 (2021)
2021 Oregon Revised Statutes|Volume : 16 - Trade Practices, Labor and Employment|Chapter 654 - Occupational Safety and Health|Section 654.020 - Interference with safety devices or methods prohibited; civil penalty.

(1) No person shall remove, displace, damage, destroy or carry off any safety device or safeguard furnished and provided for use in any employment or place of employment, or interfere in any way with the use thereof by any other person, or interfere with the use of any method or process adopted for the protection of any employee in such employment or place of employment. (2) If an employee is injured as a result of an employer’s violation of the provisions of subsection (1) of this section, the employer shall be assessed a civil penalty under ORS 654.086 (1)(c). (3) If removal or the rendering inoperative of a safety device or safeguard is necessary for repair or maintenance work, injuries sustained while the repair or maintenance work is being performed are exempted from this section. [Amended by 1973 c.833 §7; 1977 c.869 §1]
OR Rev Stat § 654.022 (2021)
2021 Oregon Revised Statutes|Volume : 16 - Trade Practices, Labor and Employment|Chapter 654 - Occupational Safety and Health|Section 654.022 - Duty to comply with safety and health orders, decisions and rules.

Every employer, owner, employee and other person shall obey and comply with every requirement of every order, decision, direction, standard, rule or regulation made or prescribed by the Department of Consumer and Business Services in connection with the matters specified in ORS 654.001 to 654.295, 654.412 to 654.423 and 654.750 to 654.780, or in any way relating to or affecting safety and health in employments or places of employment, or to protect the life, safety and health of employees in such employments or places of employment, and shall do everything necessary or proper in order to secure compliance with and observance of every such order, decision, direction, standard, rule or regulation. [Formerly 654.060; 1977 c.804 §35]
OR Rev Stat § 654.030 (2021)
2021 Oregon Revised Statutes|Volume : 16 - Trade Practices, Labor and Employment|Chapter 654 - Occupational Safety and Health|Section 654.030

[Amended by 1973 c.833 §24; renumbered 654.130]
OR Rev Stat § 654.031 (2021)
2021 Oregon Revised Statutes|Volume : 16 - Trade Practices, Labor and Employment|Chapter 654 - Occupational Safety and Health|Section 654.031 - Citation and order to correct unsafe or unhealthy conditions.

Whenever the Director of the Department of Consumer and Business Services has reason to believe, after an inspection or investigation, that any employment or place of employment is unsafe or detrimental to health or that the practices, means, methods, operations or processes employed or used in connection therewith are unsafe or detrimental to health, or do not afford adequate protection to the life, safety and health of the employees therein, the director shall issue such citation and order relative thereto as may be necessary to render such employment or place of employment safe and protect the life, safety and health of employees therein. The director may in the order direct that such additions, repairs, improvements or changes be made, and such devices and safeguards be furnished, provided and used, as are reasonably required to render such employment or place of employment safe and healthful, in the manner and within the time specified in the order. [Formerly 654.045]
OR Rev Stat § 654.045 (2021)
2021 Oregon Revised Statutes|Volume : 16 - Trade Practices, Labor and Employment|Chapter 654 - Occupational Safety and Health|Section 654.045

[Amended by 1973 c.833 §10; renumbered 654.031]
OR Rev Stat § 654.056 (2021)
2021 Oregon Revised Statutes|Volume : 16 - Trade Practices, Labor and Employment|Chapter 654 - Occupational Safety and Health|Section 654.056 - Variance from safety or health standards; effect of variance on citations.

(1) Any employer may apply to the Director of the Department of Consumer and Business Services, pursuant to regulations and procedures adopted by the director, for an order granting the employer a variance from a particular safety or health regulation, rule or standard. (2) The director may grant a temporary variance only if the employer demonstrates by a preponderance of the evidence that: (a) The employer is unable to comply with a new regulation, rule or standard by its effective date; (b) The employer has an effective program for complying with the law as quickly as practicable; and (c) The employer is taking all available steps in the interim to safeguard the employees of the employer against the hazards covered by the regulation, rule or standard. (3) The director may grant a permanent variance only if the employer demonstrates by a preponderance of the evidence that the conditions, practices, means, methods, operations or processes used or proposed to be used by the employer will provide employment and a place of employment which are as safe and healthful as those which would prevail if the employer complied with the regulation, rule or standard. (4) Where the director proposes to deny a request for a variance, the employer shall be given an opportunity for a hearing before the Workers’ Compensation Board in which the employer may contest the proposed denial. (5) Where the director proposes to grant a variance, the affected employees shall be given an opportunity for a hearing before the board in which they may contest the proposed variance. (6) A request for a variance which is filed after an inspection or investigation by the director will not act to stay or dismiss any citation which may result from such inspection or investigation, and an order granting the requested variance shall have no retroactive effect. (7) An order granting a variance may be modified or revoked by the director upon the director’s own motion or upon the application of the employer or an affected employee or representative of the employee, in the manner prescribed for its issuance at any time after six months from its issuance. [1973 c.833 §13 (enacted in lieu of 654.055); 1977 c.804 §37]