Oregon Administrative Rules › Chapter 471 - EMPLOYMENT DEPARTMENT › Division 10 - ADMINISTRATIVE SERVICES GENERAL AND INTERNAL RULES › Section 471-010-0080 - Definitions

Current through Register Vol. 63, No. 7, July 1, 2024
(1) "Agent" means
			 an individual or entity that is authorized to act for or in the place of
			 another individual or entity.
(2)
			 "Business" means any entity carrying on a trade or commercial enterprise that
			 operates either inside or outside of Oregon and includes employers and
			 employing units.
(3) "Customer"
			 means any individual person seeking service from the Employment Department or
			 other one-stop delivery system partner.
(4) "Employer" has the same meaning as in ORS
			 657.025
(5) "Employing Unit" has
			 the same meaning as in ORS 657.020
(6) "Establishment" means an economic unit
			 that produces goods or services, usually at a single physical location, and is
			 engaged in one or predominantly one activity.
(7) "Governmental planning functions" means
			 duties authorized by law which are undertaken by state, federal, or local
			 government agencies, to facilitate policy decisions about the future. These
			 functions include, but are not limited to, economic or similar modeling, impact
			 analysis, projections, and forecasting.
(8) "Governmental performance measurement
			 functions" means duties authorized by law which are undertaken by state,
			 federal, or local government agencies regarding the success and impact of
			 government programs.
(9)
			 "Governmental program analysis functions" means duties authorized by law which
			 are undertaken by state, federal, or local government agencies to better
			 understand the impact and operation of government programs. These functions
			 include, but are not limited to, fiscal analysis, budget analysis, and workload
			 analysis.
(10) "Governmental
			 socioeconomic functions" means duties authorized by law which are undertaken by
			 state, federal, or local government agencies to better understand the
			 socioeconomic conditions in which the governmental entity is operating. These
			 functions include, but are not limited to, the analysis of demographic, labor
			 force, employment, and income trends.
(11) "Governmental policy analysis functions"
			 means duties authorized by law which are undertaken by state, federal, or local
			 government agencies to determine or better understand the impact of policy
			 choices and decisions. These functions include, but are not limited to,
			 economic impact analysis, trend analysis, and economic or similar modeling.
(12) "Hosted Worker" means a
			 non-Department employee or volunteer who, under the supervision of an
			 Employment Department management service employee, performs services in the
			 area of the public labor exchange, such as: selecting and referring job seekers
			 on employer openings on jobs listed with the Employment Department, assisting
			 employers in listing jobs, providing marketing or outreach services to the
			 business community, assisting customers with their Match Skills registration,
			 and assisting in the resource rooms. The roles and responsibilities of the
			 Hosted Worker, the Workers' responsibilities with respect to confidential
			 information, and the penalties for unauthorized disclosure must be addressed in
			 a written agreement with the Hosted Worker's actual employer or the Worker if
			 there is no employer.
(13)
			 "Information" means:
(a) Data that pertains
			 to an individual business or person;
(b) Aggregations of data about businesses in
			 which there are fewer than three businesses or in which any one business
			 accounts for more than 80 percent of the aggregated data; and
(c) Aggregations of data about persons in
			 which there are fewer than three persons.