Oregon Administrative Rules › Chapter 839 - BUREAU OF LABOR AND INDUSTRIES › Division 1 - WAGE COLLECTION MATTERS › Section 839-001-0700 - Definitions

Current through Register Vol. 63, No. 7, July 1, 2024
As used in ORS
				652.710 and in OAR
				839-001-0700 to
				839-001-0800, unless the context
				requires otherwise:
(1) "Bureau" means
			 the Bureau of Labor and Industries of the State of Oregon.
(2) "Commissioner" means the Commissioner of
			 the Bureau of Labor and Industries.
(3) "Contract" includes a group health
			 insurance policy.
(4) "Contractor"
			 includes any person who enters into an agreement with an employer to provide
			 health care services to employees. "Contractor" also includes any person who
			 enters into an agreement with an employer to provide insurance coverage
			 pursuant to the terms of a group health insurance policy.
(5) "Employ" includes to suffer or permit to
			 work.
(6) "Employee" means any
			 individual employed by an employer.
(7) "Employer" includes any person acting
			 directly or indirectly in the interest of an employer in relation to an
			 employee.
(8) "Group health
			 insurance policy" as used in ORS
			 652.710(3) has
			 the same meaning as that defined in ORS
			 743.522.
(9) "Health care services" includes services
			 that provide medical and surgical attention, hospital care, x-rays, ambulance,
			 nursing or other related service or care for sickness or injury. Health care
			 services also include services that are provided under the terms of a group
			 health insurance policy.
(10)
			 "Home address" means the last known mailing address as recorded in the
			 employer's records.
(11) "Insurer"
			 as used in ORS 652.710(3) has
			 the same meaning as that defined in ORS
			 731.106 and includes a
			 contractor as defined in section (4) of this rule.
(12) "Promptly be paid" or "Promptly pay"
			 means that trust funds are paid no later than the date agreed to by the
			 employer and the contractor.
(13)
			 "Termination" or "Terminated", as used in ORS
			 652.710(3),
			 means the cessation of coverage on the last day of the period through which
			 coverage is paid up; provided, however, that a group health insurance policy
			 that provides for a grace period for paying premium on the policy terminates on
			 the final day of the grace period. Termination of coverage under a group health
			 insurance policy also includes the amendment or reissuance of a policy to
			 delete one or more classes of certificate holders from coverage.
(14) "Trust funds" means all moneys collected
			 by an employer from employees of the employer or moneys retained from the
			 employee's wages for the purposes of providing or furnishing to the employee's
			 health care services pursuant to a contract.
(15) "Violation" means a transgression of any
			 statute or rule or any part thereof and includes both acts and
			 omissions.
(16) "Working day" means
			 any day the business of the employer is open for business to its customers or
			 day the employees of the employer are actually working on the employer's
			 business.
Stat. Auth.: ORS
				  652.710(7)
				  & 652.710(11)
Stats. Implemented: ORS
				  652.710