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2023 Oregon Revised Statutes › Volume : 16 - Trade Practices, Labor and Employment › Chapter 657 - Unemployment Insurance › Section 657.642 - Alternative remedies for collection of taxes, interest and penalties; warrants; execution by sheriff.

(1) In any case in which the Director of the Employment Department may bring a civil action for the collection of taxes, interest and penalties under this chapter, the Employment Department may instead:
(a) Assess a collection charge of $5 if the sum of the tax, penalty and interest then due exceeds $10.
(b) Issue a warrant for the amount of the tax with the added penalties, interest, collection charge and the sheriff’s cost of executing the warrant. A copy of the warrant shall be mailed or delivered to the taxpayer by the department at the taxpayer’s last-known address.
(2) At any time after issuing a warrant under this section, the department may record the warrant in the County Clerk Lien Record of any county of this state. Recording of the warrant has the effect described in ORS 205.125. After recording a warrant, the department may direct the sheriff for the county in which the warrant is recorded to levy upon and sell the real and personal property of the taxpayer found within that county, and to levy upon any currency of the taxpayer found within that county, for the application of the proceeds or currency against the amount reflected in the warrant and the sheriff’s cost of executing the warrant. The sheriff shall proceed on the warrant in the same manner prescribed by law for executions issued against property pursuant to a judgment, and is entitled to the same fees as provided for executions issued against property pursuant to a judgment. The fees of the sheriff shall be added to and collected as a part of the warrant liability.
(3) In the discretion of the department a warrant under this section may be directed to any agent authorized by the department to collect taxes under this section, and in the execution of the warrant the agent has all of the powers conferred by law upon sheriffs, but is entitled to no fee or compensation in excess of actual expenses paid in the performance of such duty.
(4) Until a warrant issued under this section is satisfied in full, the department has the same remedies to enforce the claim for taxes, penalties and interest against the taxpayer as if the state had recovered judgment against the taxpayer for the amount of the tax, penalties and interest.
(5) Interest upon the taxes due as set forth in the warrant shall be paid and collected at the rate prescribed in ORS 657.515 (2). [1971 c.128 §2; 1983 c.696 §25; 2003 c.576 §217; 2011 c.661 §11]
2023 Oregon Revised Statutes › Volume : 16 - Trade Practices, Labor and Employment › Chapter 657 - Unemployment Insurance › Section 657.646 - Use of warrant to collect amount of judgment.

In any case in which a judgment is rendered in favor of the Employment Department for amounts due under this chapter, the Director of the Employment Department may issue a warrant to collect the amount of the judgment. [2005 c.336 §2]
2023 Oregon Revised Statutes › Volume : 16 - Trade Practices, Labor and Employment › Chapter 657 - Unemployment Insurance › Section 657.652 - Certificate as evidence in proceeding.

In any action, suit or proceeding brought by or against the Director of the Employment Department a certificate attested to by the director or the authorized representative of the director showing the amount of contributions, interest and penalties due from an employing unit shall be prima facie evidence of the payment by the employing unit of the amount of wages for employment set forth therein, of the levy of assessment, of the delinquency, and of the compliance by the director or the authorized representative of the director with all the provisions of this chapter relating to the computation and assessment of the contributions, interest and penalties specified in the certificate. [1963 c.354 §6 (657.552, 657.652, 657.679, 657.681 and 657.683 enacted in lieu of 657.472, 657.512, 657.550 and 657.672)]
2023 Oregon Revised Statutes › Volume : 16 - Trade Practices, Labor and Employment › Chapter 657 - Unemployment Insurance › Section 657.655 - Certified copies of records as evidence.

If the original of any record, file, order, proceeding, decision, award or other document on file with the Employment Department is competent and admissible in evidence, a certified copy thereof furnished by the Director of the Employment Department under the seal of the department shall be received in evidence before the Employment Appeals Board or any deputy or officer thereof and in all courts. [Amended by 1959 c.583 §16; 1969 c.597 §184]
2023 Oregon Revised Statutes › Volume : 16 - Trade Practices, Labor and Employment › Chapter 657 - Unemployment Insurance › Section 657.657 - Acquisition of land and offices.

(1) Subject to the approval of the Director of the Oregon Department of Administrative Services, the Director of the Employment Department may acquire by purchase office buildings, make alterations, modifications or additions thereto, and purchase land and construct thereon office buildings suitable for use as local offices of the Director of the Employment Department. The Director of the Employment Department, with the approval of the Oregon Department of Administrative Services, may acquire by purchase office space for the central offices of the Employment Department and may expend such funds as may be necessary for the administration of such offices.
(2) Any agreement made for the purchase of property pursuant to this section shall be further subject to the approval of the Governor and shall not subject the state to liability for payment of the purchase price or any part or portion thereof except from moneys allocated to the state by the United States Department of Labor for the administration of this chapter.
(3) If the premises are purchased pursuant to this section, the Director of the Employment Department shall be housed therein, or if it is desirable to move a local employment service office so housed, other substantially similar space will be furnished by the state to the director without further payment therefor by the United States. [1957 c.609 §5; 1959 c.597 §1; 1961 c.490 §5; 1969 c.597 §185]
2023 Oregon Revised Statutes › Volume : 16 - Trade Practices, Labor and Employment › Chapter 657 - Unemployment Insurance › Section 657.660 - Records and reports of employing units.

(1) Every employing unit shall keep true and accurate records of all persons employed by it and such records of hours worked, wages paid and other statistics as prescribed by the Director of the Employment Department for the administration of this chapter.
(2) Such records shall be open to inspection by the director or an authorized representative of the director at any reasonable time. No person shall refuse to allow the director or authorized representative to inspect the payroll or other records or documents relative to the enforcement of this chapter.
(3) The director may require from any employing unit such reports on the wages, hours, employment, unemployment and related matters concerning its employees as the director deems necessary to the effective administration of this chapter.
(4) Every employing unit shall fully, correctly and promptly furnish the director all information required by the director to carry out the purposes and provisions of this chapter.
2023 Oregon Revised Statutes › Volume : 16 - Trade Practices, Labor and Employment › Chapter 657 - Unemployment Insurance › Section 657.676 - Reconsideration of determinations; conditions; rules; hearing and review.

(1) Upon motion of the Director of the Employment Department or upon application of an interested employer, the director may reconsider a determination of employer subjectivity, tax rate or tax assessment, irrespective of whether the determination has become final. The director may reconsider a determination when there is evidence of:
(a) Computation errors;
(b) Clerical errors;
(c) Misinformation provided to a party by the Employment Department;
(d) Facts not previously known to the department; or
(e) Errors caused by misapplication of law by the department.
(2) The reconsideration shall be accomplished by the director or any employee the director may designate for the purpose, in accordance with rules adopted by the director. The director or designated employee may make a new determination, which is subject to hearing, review and appeal in accordance with ORS 657.485 and 657.679 to 657.684. [1977 c.538 §13; 2007 c.88 §1]
2023 Oregon Revised Statutes › Volume : 16 - Trade Practices, Labor and Employment › Chapter 657 - Unemployment Insurance › Section 657.679 - Determination that employing unit or employment is subject to this chapter; notice; application for hearing.

A determination of the Director of the Employment Department or the authorized representative of the director:
(1) As to whether an employing unit is an employer subject to this chapter, or
(2) That services performed by an individual for an employer liable for reimbursement payments in lieu of taxes is employment subject to this chapter,
shall become final 20 days after written notice of the determination is mailed to the last-known address of the employing unit of record with the director unless within such time the employing unit files an application with the director for a hearing with respect thereto as provided in ORS 657.683. [1963 c.354 §2 (657.552, 657.652, 657.679, 657.681 and 657.683 enacted in lieu of 657.472, 657.512, 657.550 and 657.672); 1975 c.156 §4; 1977 c.538 §11]
2023 Oregon Revised Statutes › Volume : 16 - Trade Practices, Labor and Employment › Chapter 657 - Unemployment Insurance › Section 657.682 - Assessments against reorganized business entity.

(1) As used in this section, "reorganized business entity" means a business entity that, while operating substantially the same business as the employer, has been converted to a different form of business entity from that of the employer or has changed ownership from that of the employer, except that a business entity is not a "reorganized business entity" solely because of a transfer of assets or because of a transfer of an interest of an investor who has no right to manage the business entity, including, but not limited to, the interest of:
(a) A person that is solely a minority shareholder in a corporation;
(b) A member of a manager-managed limited liability company; and
(c) A limited partner of a limited partnership that does not participate in the control of the business of the limited partnership.
(2) For any amounts owed by an employer for contributions or interest assessed under ORS 657.681 or for taxes, interest or penalties that may be collected under ORS 657.642, the Director of the Employment Department may transfer those amounts to and assess those amounts against a reorganized business entity.
(3) For the purposes of this section, factors the director may consider when determining if a business entity is operating substantially the same business as the employer include, but are not limited to, whether the business entity:
(a) Operates from the same physical location as did the employer owing the debt.
(b) Provides the same services or manufactures the same products as did the employer owing the debt.
(c) Has one or more of the same:
(A) Corporate directors or officers as did the employer owing the debt.
(B) Owners or holders of a direct or indirect interest in the employer as did the employer owing the debt.
(4) A reorganized business entity against which an amount is assessed under this section may appeal the assessment by filing with the director an application for hearing under ORS 657.683 within 20 days after the mailing of a written notice of the assessment to the last-known address of the reorganized business entity of record with the director. [2005 c.214 §2]
Note:
657.682 was added to and made a part of ORS chapter 657 by legislative action but was not added to any smaller series therein. See Preface to Oregon Revised Statutes for further explanation.
2023 Oregon Revised Statutes › Volume : 16 - Trade Practices, Labor and Employment › Chapter 657 - Unemployment Insurance › Section 657.684 - Judicial review of decisions under ORS 657.683.

Judicial review of decisions under ORS 657.683 shall be as provided for review of orders in contested cases in ORS chapter 183, except that the petition shall be filed within 20 days after the order is final. The Director of the Employment Department may file petition for judicial review in accordance with this section from decision of the administrative law judge. When judicial review is upon an assessment or assessments made pursuant to ORS 657.681 and the court determines the assessment or assessments are valid, judgment shall be given in favor of the director for the amount due as determined by the court. [1971 c.734 §100; 1999 c.849 §153; 2003 c.75 §106]
2023 Oregon Revised Statutes › Volume : 16 - Trade Practices, Labor and Employment › Chapter 657 - Unemployment Insurance › Section 657.685 - Employment Appeals Board; confirmation; quorum; meetings; duties; staffing; rules.

(1) The Employment Appeals Board hereby is created within the Employment Department.
(2) The Employment Appeals Board consists of three members who shall be appointed by and serve at the pleasure of the Governor. Except for pro tempore appointments, appointments of members are subject to confirmation by the Senate in the manner provided in ORS 171.562 and 171.565. In the selection of the members of the Employment Appeals Board, the Governor shall give due consideration to the interests of labor, industry and the public. Not more than two of the members of said board shall belong to the same political party. The Governor shall designate one of the members of the Employment Appeals Board to serve as its chairperson with duties and powers necessary for the performance of the function of such office as the Governor determines. In the event of an absence or as required by the workload, the chairperson may appoint, with the approval of the Governor, pro tempore members to serve for a period not to exceed 90 days.
(3) A majority of the Employment Appeals Board constitutes a quorum.
(4) The Employment Appeals Board shall meet at such times and places as specified by the chairperson.
(5) The director shall provide the Employment Appeals Board with such staff as is required by the workload, subject to budgetary limitations.
(6) The Employment Department shall adopt procedural rules proposed by the Employment Appeals Board necessary for the discharge of the board’s duties. Such rules need not conform to common law or statutory rules of evidence and other technical rules of procedure. [1959 c.583 §12; 1969 c.597 §186; 1973 c.792 §30; 1975 c.426 §1; 1983 c.522 §9; 1987 c.894 §10; 1993 c.344 §22]
2023 Oregon Revised Statutes › Volume : 16 - Trade Practices, Labor and Employment › Chapter 657 - Unemployment Insurance › Section 657.690 - Employment Appeals Board powers.

The Employment Appeals Board has the power:
(1) To hold sessions any place within the state.
(2) To administer oaths.
(3) To issue and serve, or by any sheriff, subpoenas for the attendance of employers or claimants and the production of papers, contracts, books, accounts, documents and testimony. The Employment Appeals Board may require the attendance and testimony of claimants or employers, their officers and representatives before any hearing or review before the Employment Appeals Board without payment or tender or witness fees on account of such attendance. [1959 c.583 §13; 1993 c.344 §24]
2023 Oregon Revised Statutes › Volume : 16 - Trade Practices, Labor and Employment › Chapter 657 - Unemployment Insurance › Section 657.695 - Employment Department Advisory Council; members; compensation and expenses.

(1) To assist the Director of the Employment Department in the effective development of policies and programs with respect to unemployment insurance and employment service and in securing to this state the benefits of the Wagner-Peyser Act, and particularly with respect to carrying out ORS 657.615, there hereby is created an advisory council within the Employment Department to be known as the Employment Department Advisory Council.
(2) The members of the council shall be appointed by the Governor and shall be composed of men and women representing employers and employees in equal numbers, and representatives of the public who shall elect their chairperson. The director shall serve as an ex officio member of the council.
(3) The members of the council shall be appointed for a term of two years and are entitled to compensation and expenses as provided in ORS 292.495. Members of the council or other committees appointed pursuant to this section and ORS 657.700 shall be reimbursed from the Unemployment Compensation Administration Fund. [Formerly 657.675; 1969 c.314 §70; 1969 c.597 §188; 1997 c.57 §1]
2023 Oregon Revised Statutes › Volume : 16 - Trade Practices, Labor and Employment › Chapter 657 - Unemployment Insurance › Section 657.702 - Department to encourage volunteering.

(1) The Employment Department shall:
(a) Update the department’s webpage to encourage volunteering and provide links to state and federal volunteering opportunities.
(b) Post the following statement on the webpages of the department and the unemployment insurance division of the department:
______________________________________________________________________________
As you search for a job, you can make a positive difference in your life and in your community by volunteering your time and skills to help others. Volunteer work can build experience for your resume and expand your list of community employment contacts.
The skill sets you use and learn in volunteer work could turn into a job offer or a career change in the future. Volunteering will not affect your unemployment benefits as long as you continue to meet work-search and availability requirements.
______________________________________________________________________________
(2) The business and employment services unit of the department shall incorporate information about volunteering into the unit’s welcome process. [2011 c.442 §1]
Note:
657.702 was enacted into law by the Legislative Assembly but was not added to or made a part of ORS chapter 657 or any series therein by legislative action. See Preface to Oregon Revised Statutes for further explanation.
2023 Oregon Revised Statutes › Volume : 16 - Trade Practices, Labor and Employment › Chapter 657 - Unemployment Insurance › Section 657.705 - Oregon State Employment Service.

There is created under the Director of the Employment Department a division, to be known as the Oregon State Employment Service, which shall be affiliated with the United States Employment Service. Such division shall be administered by a person well qualified by technical training and experience in the functions to be performed. [Amended by 1959 c.583 §17; 1969 c.597 §189; 1993 c.344 §10]
2023 Oregon Revised Statutes › Volume : 16 - Trade Practices, Labor and Employment › Chapter 657 - Unemployment Insurance › Section 657.710 - Free public employment offices; contracts relating to workforce development system; public agencies to provide information on job vacancies.

(1) The Director of the Employment Department shall establish and maintain such free public employment offices, including such branch or affiliate offices, as may be necessary for the proper administration of this chapter and for participation in Oregon’s workforce development system.
(2) The director may enter into such contracts or memoranda of understanding with designated workforce development system partners, including but not limited to other states and governments, government entities, state agencies, units of local government, intergovernmental entities, community colleges and persons, as appropriate to administer the workforce development system.
(3) The director may enter into contracts or memoranda of understanding to share confidential information as authorized under federal law and regulations for purposes of a national performance accounting system, including receiving and making available wage records to the extent the wage records are required by another state to carry out that state’s workforce development system performance plan.
(4) All moneys made available by or received by the state for the Oregon State Employment Service shall be paid to and expended from the Unemployment Compensation Administration Fund.
(5) Each contracting agency shall provide to the director timely information pertinent to all existing job vacancies over which the contracting agency exercises employment control and for which there will be open recruitment. Such information shall be made available to the public by the director. As used in this subsection, "contracting agency" has the meaning given that term in ORS 279A.010. [Amended by 1969 c.597 §190; 1983 c.339 §1; 2001 c.684 §34; 2003 c.794 §312; 2017 c.185 §19; 2017 c.297 §26]
2023 Oregon Revised Statutes › Volume : 16 - Trade Practices, Labor and Employment › Chapter 657 - Unemployment Insurance › Section 657.715 - Wagner-Peyser Act accepted.

The State of Oregon hereby accepts the provisions of the Act of Congress approved June 6, 1933, entitled "An act to provide for the establishment of a national employment system and for cooperation with the states in the promotion of such system, and for other purposes."
2023 Oregon Revised Statutes › Volume : 16 - Trade Practices, Labor and Employment › Chapter 657 - Unemployment Insurance › Section 657.720 - Cooperation with federal agencies, political subdivisions or private organizations in maintaining public employment service.

(1) The Director of the Employment Department is designated and constituted the agency of this state for the purpose of the Wagner-Peyser Act. The director shall cooperate with all authorities of the United States having powers and duties under the Wagner-Peyser Act and do and perform all things necessary to secure to this state the benefits of the Wagner-Peyser Act in the promotion and maintenance of a system of public employment offices.
(2) The director may cooperate with or enter into agreements with the Railroad Retirement Board with respect to the establishment, maintenance and use of free public employment service facilities. For the purpose of establishing and maintaining free public employment service the director may enter into agreements with the Railroad Retirement Board or any other agency of the United States charged with the administration of an unemployment insurance law, with any political subdivision of this state, or with any private nonprofit organization, and as a part of any such agreement may accept moneys, services or quarters as a contribution to the Unemployment Compensation Administration Fund.
2023 Oregon Revised Statutes › Volume : 16 - Trade Practices, Labor and Employment › Chapter 657 - Unemployment Insurance › Section 657.747 - Department to inform employer and United States Department of Labor of employer’s noncompliance with certain federal requirements regarding federal forest maintenance activity.

If the Employment Department becomes aware in the normal course of business that an employer has contracted with the United States to conduct forest maintenance activity on federal forestland in this state and is not in compliance with the requirements under 20 C.F.R. 655 for H-2B temporary employment certification regarding the forest maintenance activity, the department shall:
(1) Inform the employer of the noncompliance; and
(2) Inform the United States Department of Labor of the noncompliance. [2013 c.389 §2]
2023 Oregon Revised Statutes › Volume : 16 - Trade Practices, Labor and Employment › Chapter 657 - Unemployment Insurance › Section 657.749 - Department actions when certain forest maintenance activity jobs listed.

(1) If an employer lists an available forest maintenance activity job under a federal H-2B certification for temporary nonagricultural work with the Employment Department, the department shall:
(a) Confirm with the employer whether the job is open to Oregon resident workers;
(b) Notify the United States Department of Labor, union halls and community agencies serving unemployed Oregon resident workers that the job has been listed; and
(c) Display information concerning the job listing in prominent public locations frequented by unemployed Oregon resident workers.
(2) The Employment Department shall periodically inform past and present employers of workers for the performance of forest maintenance activities regarding the local supply of Oregon resident workers available to fill forest maintenance activity jobs that may become available. [2013 c.389 §3]
2023 Oregon Revised Statutes › Volume : 16 - Trade Practices, Labor and Employment › Chapter 657 - Unemployment Insurance › Section 657.755 - Cooperation with federal agencies administering unemployment insurance laws.

The Director of the Employment Department shall:
(1) Cooperate in all necessary respects with the appropriate agencies and departments of the federal government in the administration of this chapter and of free public employment offices.
(2) Make the state’s records relating to the administration of this chapter available to the Railroad Retirement Board and furnish to the Railroad Retirement Board, at the expense of such board, copies thereof as that board deems necessary for its purposes.
(3) Afford reasonable cooperation with every agency of the United States charged with the administration of any unemployment insurance law and make all reports thereon requested by any directly interested federal agency or department.
(4) Accept any sums allotted or apportioned to the state for such administration and comply with all reasonable federal regulations governing the expenditures of such sums.
2023 Oregon Revised Statutes › Volume : 16 - Trade Practices, Labor and Employment › Chapter 657 - Unemployment Insurance › Section 657.757 - Cooperation with federal agencies administering training or retraining programs and other assistance.

(1) The Employment Department is authorized to cooperate with or enter into agreements with appropriate agencies of the federal government whereby:
(a) The Director of the Employment Department may act as agent of the federal government, in the payment of subsistence or other cash allowances provided in programs adopted by the federal government, including training and retraining programs or other assistance to individuals in this state.
(b) In performing services incidental to such programs the director may make such reports, surveys and analyses as may be required and comply with all reasonable rules and regulations in connection with such programs.
(c) The director may accept any sums allotted or apportioned to the state for administrative purposes and maintain separate accounting of all subsistence or cash allowances deposited with the state for payment to qualified individuals.
(2) Nothing in this section shall in any way affect the validity of any agreements entered into with any federal agency prior to July 1, 1963. [1963 c.216 §2]
2023 Oregon Revised Statutes › Volume : 16 - Trade Practices, Labor and Employment › Chapter 657 - Unemployment Insurance › Section 657.760 - Reciprocal agreements on coverage and collection of contributions.

The Director of the Employment Department may enter into agreements with the appropriate agencies of other states or the federal government whereby:
(1) Potential rights to benefits accumulated under the unemployment insurance laws of the several states or under such a law of the federal government, or both, may constitute the basis for the payment of benefits through a single appropriate agency under terms which the director finds will be fair and reasonable as to all affected interests and will not result in any substantial loss to the fund.
(2) Individuals performing services in this and other states for a single employing unit under circumstances not specifically provided for in ORS 657.035 (2) or under similar provisions in the unemployment insurance laws of such other states, shall be deemed to be engaged in employment performed entirely within this state or within one of such other states and whereby potential rights to benefits accumulated under the unemployment insurance laws of one or more states or under such a law of the federal government, or both, may constitute the basis for the payment of benefits.
(3) The collection and payment of contributions by employers with respect to employment not localized within this state is adjusted.
2023 Oregon Revised Statutes › Volume : 16 - Trade Practices, Labor and Employment › Chapter 657 - Unemployment Insurance › Section 657.765 - Reciprocal agreements concerning payroll taxes for out-of-state work.

Whenever the unemployment insurance laws of other states provide for inclusion of out-of-state payment of wages in computing wages paid in like manner as provided in ORS 657.095 (2), the Director of the Employment Department may enter into agreements with those empowered to administer the unemployment insurance laws of such other states for the purpose of:
(1) Waiving the further collection of payroll taxes in all the states when the aggregate amount of said wages is in excess of "payroll" as defined in ORS 657.095 (1); and
(2) Securing uniformity for payroll reporting on such out-of-state work. [Amended by 1955 c.655 §24; 1973 c.300 §13; 1973 c.810 §3]
2023 Oregon Revised Statutes › Volume : 16 - Trade Practices, Labor and Employment › Chapter 657 - Unemployment Insurance › Section 657.770 - Reciprocal agreements concerning wages used as basis for benefits.

(1) The Director of the Employment Department may enter into reciprocal arrangements with appropriate and duly authorized agencies of other states or of the federal government, or both, whereby wages, upon the basis of which an individual may become entitled to benefits under an employment security law of another state or of the federal government, shall be deemed to be wages for insured work for the purpose of determining benefits under this chapter. Wages for insured work, on the basis of which an individual may become entitled to benefits under this chapter, shall be deemed to be wages on the basis of which unemployment insurance is payable under such law of another state or of the federal government.
(2) No such arrangement shall be entered into unless it contains provision for reimbursement to the fund for such of the benefits paid under this chapter on the basis of such wages and provision for reimbursement from the fund for such benefits paid under such other law on the basis of wages for insured work, as the director finds will be fair and reasonable to all affected interests.
(3) Reimbursements paid from the fund pursuant to this section are deemed to be benefits for the purposes of this chapter. However, no charge shall be made to an employer’s account under ORS 657.471 in excess of the maximum benefits payable under ORS 657.150 or when no benefits would have been payable to an individual but for this section, because of the lack of wages for insured work necessary to qualify for benefits.
(4) Notwithstanding the provisions of subsections (1) and (2) of this section, the director shall participate in any arrangements for the payment of compensation on the basis of combining an individual’s wages and employment covered under this chapter with wages and employment covered under the unemployment insurance laws of other states that are approved by the United States Secretary of Labor in consultation with the state unemployment insurance agencies as reasonably calculated to ensure the prompt and full payment of compensation in such situations and that include provisions for:
(a) Applying the base period of a single state law to a claim involving the combining of an individual’s wages and employment covered under two or more state unemployment insurance laws; and
(b) Avoiding the duplicate use of wages and employment by reason of such combining. [Amended by 1957 c.699 §11; 1971 c.463 §19; 2005 c.22 §463]
2023 Oregon Revised Statutes › Volume : 16 - Trade Practices, Labor and Employment › Chapter 657 - Unemployment Insurance › Section 657.775 - Cooperation with other states on reciprocal basis for collection of contributions.

(1) The courts of the State of Oregon shall recognize and enforce the liability for unemployment insurance contributions imposed by other states which extend a like comity to this state, and officials of such other states may initiate civil proceedings in the courts of this state to enforce the collection of such contributions. The certificate of the Secretary of State of such other states that such officials have the authority to collect the contributions is conclusive evidence of such authority.
(2) The Attorney General is empowered to initiate and prosecute civil proceedings in the courts of other states by and in the name of the Director of the Employment Department to enforce the liability for unemployment insurance contributions imposed by the State of Oregon, and may also initiate and prosecute civil proceedings in this state as agent for and on behalf of any other state to enforce liability for unemployment insurance contributions due such state if the state extends a like comity to the State of Oregon. The compensation for the services of the Attorney General rendered on behalf of other states under this section shall be paid from moneys appropriated to the Employment Department for administrative expenditures. The compensation for similar officers of other states for services rendered on behalf of this state under this section shall be paid by such other state. However, all other expenses of civil proceedings under this section shall be paid by the state, officer or agency thereof at whose request such proceedings were initiated.
(3) The Attorney General, with the approval of the director, may employ a special assistant under ORS 180.140 (5) to initiate and prosecute civil proceedings in other states to enforce liability for unemployment contributions imposed by the State of Oregon and nothing in this section shall be deemed to prevent the officials of other states from employing any member of the Oregon State Bar to initiate and prosecute civil proceedings in this state to enforce liability for unemployment insurance imposed by such other states.
(4) As used in this section, "contributions" includes interest and penalties imposed pursuant to an unemployment insurance statute. [1963 c.453 §2; 1983 c.740 §247]
2023 Oregon Revised Statutes › Volume : 16 - Trade Practices, Labor and Employment › Chapter 657 - Unemployment Insurance › Section 657.780 - Agreements with governmental agencies to withhold benefits for child support obligations; rules.

(1) As used in this section, "appropriate agency" means an agency authorized to enforce child support obligations pursuant to a plan approved under part D of title IV of the Social Security Act.
(2) Notwithstanding ORS 657.855, the Director of the Employment Department may enter into agreements with the appropriate agency of this state whereby child support obligations which are being enforced pursuant to a plan approved under section 454 of the Social Security Act and owed by an individual who is eligible for unemployment compensation may be met, in whole or in part, by withholding from the unemployment compensation due the individual the amount specified by the individual to the appropriate agency to be withheld or the amount determined pursuant to an agreement with the individual submitted to the appropriate agency or any amount otherwise required to be withheld pursuant to ORS 25.378 and 25.414 and forwarding of the amount so withheld to the appropriate agency.
(3) Any amount deducted and withheld under subsection (2) of this section shall for all purposes be treated as if it were paid to the individual as unemployment compensation.
(4) This section shall apply only if appropriate arrangements have been made for reimbursement, by the appropriate agency or agencies involved, for the administrative costs incurred by the Employment Department under this section.
(5) The director shall prescribe such rules as are deemed necessary with respect to implementation and administration of procedures to comply with the provisions of this section. [1982 s.s.1 c.30 §9; 1991 c.115 §1; 1993 c.798 §49]
2023 Oregon Revised Statutes › Volume : 16 - Trade Practices, Labor and Employment › Chapter 657 - Unemployment Insurance › Section 657.783 - Supplemental Employment Department Administration Fund.

(1) There is established in the State Treasury, separate and distinct from the General Fund, the Supplemental Employment Department Administration Fund. The Supplemental Employment Department Administration Fund shall consist of moneys collected or received by the Employment Department pursuant to section 3, chapter 449, Oregon Laws 1987, and ORS 657.439 and 657.463.
(2) Except as provided in subsection (3) of this section, all income earned on moneys in the Supplemental Employment Department Administration Fund invested by the State Treasurer shall accrue to the fund. Any balance in the fund shall not lapse at any time. All moneys in the fund are appropriated continuously to the department for the payment of expenses of administration of this chapter for which federal funding has been reduced, eliminated or otherwise is not available, and which has been authorized in the legislatively approved budget of the department.
(3) As determined on June 30 of each odd-numbered year, moneys in the Supplemental Employment Department Administration Fund that are in excess of 150 percent of the amount collected pursuant to ORS 657.463 (2) for the first quarter of the previous even-numbered year shall be transferred to the Unemployment Compensation Trust Fund. The transfer required by this subsection shall be made by December 31 of the odd-numbered year. [1987 c.449 §2; 1995 c.37 §2; 2005 c.183 §§3,18]
2023 Oregon Revised Statutes › Volume : 16 - Trade Practices, Labor and Employment › Chapter 657 - Unemployment Insurance › Section 657.785 - Agreement for Interstate Reciprocal Overpayment Recovery Arrangement.

(1) The Director of the Employment Department may enter into an agreement or agreements with any other state’s employment security agency, or group thereof, including the Interstate Reciprocal Overpayment Recovery Arrangement, for the mutual and reciprocal recovery of overpaid unemployment compensation benefits. Notwithstanding any other provision of this chapter, the director may withhold from benefits otherwise due amounts necessary to recover overpaid benefits on behalf of other states with which the director has entered into such mutual and reciprocal agreements.
(2) For purposes of this section, "states" includes the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands. [1995 c.105 §2]
2023 Oregon Revised Statutes › Volume : 16 - Trade Practices, Labor and Employment › Chapter 657 - Unemployment Insurance › Section 657.805 - Unemployment Compensation Trust Fund.

There hereby is created the Unemployment Compensation Trust Fund. The fund shall consist of:
(1) All contributions received and collected under this chapter.
(2) Interest earned upon any moneys in the fund.
(3) Any property or securities acquired through the use of moneys belonging to the fund and all earnings of such property or securities.
(4) All other moneys or property, including securities, of any kind whatsoever received for the fund from any other source whatsoever.
(5) All moneys credited to this state’s account in the unemployment trust fund pursuant to section 903 of the Social Security Act, as amended. [Amended by 1957 c.609 §1; 1965 c.359 §7; 2021 c.638 §10]
2023 Oregon Revised Statutes › Volume : 16 - Trade Practices, Labor and Employment › Chapter 657 - Unemployment Insurance › Section 657.807 - Advances, under title XII of Social Security Act, to Unemployment Compensation Trust Fund.

(1) The Governor of the State of Oregon is hereby authorized in the discretion of the Governor to make necessary application to the Secretary of Labor of the United States to obtain an advance or advances pursuant to title XII of the Social Security Act, as amended.
(2) The Director of the Employment Department shall notify the Governor whenever the director determines that the conditions specified in section 1201 of the Social Security Act, as amended, or under any other Act of Congress extending such authority, have been met.
(3) Any amount transferred to the Unemployment Compensation Trust Fund by the Secretary of the Treasury of the United States under the terms of any agreement entered into in accordance with the authority extended in this section, shall be repaid from the Unemployment Compensation Trust Fund and as further provided in section 1202 of the Social Security Act, as amended. [1959 c.373 §§1,2,3]
2023 Oregon Revised Statutes › Volume : 16 - Trade Practices, Labor and Employment › Chapter 657 - Unemployment Insurance › Section 657.810 - Deposit and use of fund.

(1) All moneys received for the Unemployment Compensation Trust Fund under ORS 657.805 shall be deposited with the State Treasurer subject to ORS 657.830.
(2) All moneys in the fund shall be mingled and undivided and shall be administered by the Director of the Employment Department for the purpose of this chapter.
2023 Oregon Revised Statutes › Volume : 16 - Trade Practices, Labor and Employment › Chapter 657 - Unemployment Insurance › Section 657.812 - Use of moneys credited to Unemployment Trust Fund by Secretary of the Treasury.

(1) Money credited to the account of this state in the Unemployment Trust Fund by the Secretary of the Treasury of the United States of America pursuant to section 903 of the Social Security Act, as amended, may be requisitioned and used for the payment of expenses incurred for the administration of this chapter pursuant to a specific appropriation by the legislature, provided that the expenses are incurred and the money is requisitioned after the enactment of an appropriation law which:
(a) Specifies the purposes for which the money is appropriated and the amounts appropriated therefor;
(b) Limits the period within which such money may be obligated to a period ending not more than two years after the date of the enactment of the appropriation law; and
(c) Limits the amount which may be obligated under such appropriation at any time to an amount which does not exceed, at any such time, the amount by which the aggregate of the amounts transferred to the account of such state pursuant to section 903 of the Social Security Act, as amended, exceeds the aggregate amount of the amounts used by the state for administration and charged against the amounts transferred to the account of such state.
(2) For purposes of this section, amounts obligated for administrative purposes pursuant to an appropriation shall be chargeable against transferred amounts at the exact time the obligation is entered into. The appropriation, obligation, expenditure or other disposition of money appropriated under this section shall be accounted for in accordance with standards established by the United States Secretary of Labor.
(3) Money appropriated as provided in this section for the payment of expenses of administration shall be requisitioned as needed for the payment of obligations incurred upon such appropriation, and upon requisition shall be deposited in the Unemployment Compensation Administration Fund from which such payments shall be made. Money so deposited shall, until expended, remain a part of the Unemployment Compensation Trust Fund and, if not expended, shall be returned promptly to the account of this state in the Unemployment Trust Fund.
(4) Notwithstanding any other provision of this chapter, money credited to the account of this state pursuant to section 903 of the Social Security Act, as amended, and which has been or will be appropriated for administrative expenses of the Employment Department shall, for the purposes of the computation of fund adequacy percentage ratio, be deemed a part of the Unemployment Compensation Trust Fund. [1957 c.609 §7; 1959 c.604 §1; 1969 c.703 §1; 1973 c.24 §1; 1983 c.508 §13; 1991 c.685 §10]
2023 Oregon Revised Statutes › Volume : 16 - Trade Practices, Labor and Employment › Chapter 657 - Unemployment Insurance › Section 657.813 - Use of moneys made available under Social Security Act for administrative expenses.

Notwithstanding ORS 657.812, the Employment Department may accept funds made available to this state under section 903 of the Social Security Act, as amended, for payment of administrative expenses relating to the unemployment insurance program. [1999 c.970 §2]
Note:
657.813 was enacted into law by the Legislative Assembly but was not added to or made a part of ORS chapter 657 or any series therein by legislative action. See Preface to Oregon Revised Statutes for further explanation.
2023 Oregon Revised Statutes › Volume : 16 - Trade Practices, Labor and Employment › Chapter 657 - Unemployment Insurance › Section 657.815 - Unemployment Compensation Benefit Fund.

(1) There is created, separate and distinct from the General Fund, the Unemployment Compensation Benefit Fund. Such fund shall consist of all amounts withdrawn from the Federal Unemployment Trust Fund, upon requisition of the Director of the Employment Department, except as provided in ORS 657.812.
(2) This fund shall be used solely in the payment of benefits under this chapter, exclusive of administration, and in the payment of unemployment insurance under any agreement with another governmental agency whereby the latter will reimburse the fund for such expenditure; provided that such use shall be consistent with the Federal Unemployment Tax Act.
(3) The Unemployment Compensation Benefit Fund shall be the sole and exclusive source for the payment of benefits payable under this chapter. Such benefits shall be deemed to be due and payable only to the extent that contributions, with increments thereon, actually collected and credited to the fund are available therefor.
(4) The Unemployment Compensation Benefit Fund shall be held and administered by the State Treasurer in the same manner as provided in ORS 657.830 (1). Interest earned on the fund shall be credited to the fund. [Amended by 1957 c.609 §2; 1959 c.604 §2; 1995 c.37 §3]