Oregon Statutes - Chapter 653 - Minimum Wages; Employment Conditions; Minors

• 653.005   [Repealed by 1967 c.596 §15]
• 653.010   Definitions for ORS 653.010 to 653.261.
  As used in ORS 653.010 to 653.261, unless the context requires otherwise: (1) “Commissioner” means the Commissioner of the Bureau of Labor and Industries. (2)...
• 653.015   Statement of policy.
  It is declared to be the policy of the State of Oregon to establish minimum wage standards for workers at levels consistent with their health,...
• 653.017   Local minimum wage requirements; preemption; exceptions.
  (1) As used in this section: (a) “Local government” includes a county, city, district or other public corporation, authority or entity organized and existing under...
• 653.020   Excluded employees.
  ORS 653.010 to 653.261 do not apply to any of the following employees: (1) An individual employed in agriculture if: (a) Such individual is employed...
• 653.022   “Piece-rate-work-day” defined for ORS 653.020.
  As used in ORS 653.020 (1), “piece-rate-work-day” means any day during which an employee performs any agricultural labor on a piece-rate basis for not less...
• 653.025   Minimum wage rate.
  (1) Except as provided by ORS 652.020 and the rules of the Commissioner of the Bureau of Labor and Industries issued under ORS 653.030 and...
• 653.027   Wage rate for persons under 18 years of age in agriculture.
  An employer who employs individuals under 18 years of age in agricultural labor and who pays such individuals by the amount of work produced or...
• 653.029   [1975 c.504 §2; 1977 c.238 §2; 1979 c.832 §2; 1985 c.161 §2; repealed by 1989 c.446 §5]
• 653.030   Commissioner may prescribe lower rates in certain cases; rules.
  The Commissioner of the Bureau of Labor and Industries shall issue rules prescribing the employment of other types of persons at fixed minimum hourly wage...
• 653.035   Deducting value of lodging, meals and other benefits furnished by employer; treatment of commissions and tips.
  (1) Employers may deduct from the minimum wage to be paid employees under ORS 653.025, 653.030 or 653.261, the fair market value of lodging, meals...
• 653.040   Powers of commissioner; rules.
  The Commissioner of the Bureau of Labor and Industries, in addition to the commissioner’s other powers, may: (1) Investigate and ascertain the wages of persons...
• 653.045   Records to be kept by employers; itemization of deductions from wages.
  (1) Every employer required by ORS 653.025 or by any rule, order or permit issued under ORS 653.030 to pay a minimum wage to any...
• 653.050   Employers to post summary of law and rules; commissioner to furnish summaries and copies.
  Every employer required by ORS 653.025 or by any rules, orders or permit issued under ORS 653.030 or 653.261 to pay a minimum wage to...
• 653.055   Liability of noncomplying employer; contrary agreements no defense; wage claims; suits to enjoin future violations; attorney fees.
  (1) Any employer who pays an employee less than the wages to which the employee is entitled under ORS 653.010 to 653.261 is liable to...
• 653.060   Discharging or discriminating against employee prohibited.
  (1) An employer may not discharge or in any other manner discriminate against an employee because: (a) The employee has made complaint that the employee...
• 653.065   Application of Administrative Procedures Act.
  (1) All proceedings under ORS 653.010 to 653.261 shall be conducted in compliance with ORS chapter 183. (2) All rules of the Commissioner of the...
• 653.070   Student-learners special wage; conditions; rules; penalties.
  (1) As used in this section: (a) “Bona fide professional training program” includes any professional training program approved by the Superintendent of Public Instruction pursuant...
• 653.075   Legislative findings on breast-feeding.
  The Legislative Assembly finds that: (1) Women with infants and toddlers are the fastest growing sector of today’s labor force, with at least 50 percent...
• 653.077   Expressing milk in workplace; rules.
  (1) As used in this section: (a) “Reasonable efforts” means efforts that do not impose an undue hardship on the operation of an employer’s business....
• 653.079   Advisory committee on expressing milk in workplace; membership; duties.
  (1) The Commissioner of the Bureau of Labor and Industries shall appoint an advisory committee. The advisory committee must include equal representation of members from...
• 653.105   [Amended by 1953 c.123 §2; repealed by 1967 c.596 §15]
• 653.110   [Repealed by 1967 c.596 §15]
• 653.115   [Repealed by 1967 c.596 §15]
• 653.120   [Repealed by 1967 c.596 §15]
• 653.125   [Repealed by 1967 c.596 §15]
• 653.205   [Amended by 1961 c.337 §1; repealed by 1967 c.596 §15]
• 653.210   [Repealed by 1967 c.596 §15]
• 653.215   [Repealed by 1967 c.596 §15]
• 653.220   [Repealed by 1967 c.596 §15]
• 653.225   [Repealed by 1967 c.596 §15]
• 653.230   [Repealed by 1967 c.596 §15]
• 653.235   [Repealed by 1967 c.596 §15]
• 653.240   [Repealed by 1967 c.596 §15]
• 653.245   [Repealed by 1967 c.596 §15]
• 653.250   [Repealed by 1967 c.596 §15]
• 653.255   [Repealed by 1967 c.596 §15]
• 653.256   Civil penalty for general employment statute or rule violations.
  (1) In addition to any other penalty provided by law, the Commissioner of the Bureau of Labor and Industries may assess a civil penalty not...
• 653.260   [Repealed by 1967 c.596 §15]
• 653.261   Minimum employment conditions; overtime; rules; meal periods; exemptions.
  (1) The Commissioner of the Bureau of Labor and Industries may adopt rules prescribing such minimum conditions of employment, excluding minimum wages, in any occupation...
• 653.265   Overtime for persons employed in canneries, driers and packing plants.
  When employed in canneries or driers or packing plants, excluding canneries or driers or packing plants located on farms and primarily processing products produced on...
• 653.268   Overtime for labor directly employed by public employers.
  (1) Labor directly employed by any public employer as defined in ORS 243.650 shall be compensated, if budgeted funds for such purpose are available, for...
• 653.269   Exceptions to ORS 653.268; rules.
  The provisions of ORS 653.268 relating to pay for overtime shall not apply to: (1) Labor employed in forest fire fighting. (2) Employees of any...
• 653.270   [Repealed by 1967 c.596 §15]
• 653.275   [Repealed by 1967 c.596 §15]
• 653.280   Employer to safeguard employee’s trade equipment.
  (1) An employer shall take all reasonable precautions to safeguard all trade equipment that is owned by an employee and is located on premises under...
• 653.285   Liability of employer.
  If an employee’s trade equipment is damaged upon or stolen from premises under the employer’s control as a proximate cause of the employer’s failure to...
• 653.295   Noncompetition agreements; bonus restriction agreements; applicability of restrictions.
  (1) A noncompetition agreement entered into between an employer and employee is voidable and may not be enforced by a court of this state unless:...
• 653.300   Health benefit plan options for certain employees; limitation on cost to employer or health benefit plan for exercise of option.
  (1) Each public or private employer in this state which offers its employees a health benefit plan and employs not fewer than 25 employees, and...
• 653.305   Commission’s inquiry and order on employment of minors.
  (1) The Wage and Hour Commission may at any time inquire into wages or hours or conditions of labor of minors employed in any occupation...
• 653.307   Annual employment certificates; effect of failure by employer to comply; school districts required to cooperate with commission; rules.
  (1) In accordance with the applicable provisions of ORS chapter 183, the Wage and Hour Commission shall adopt rules governing annual employment certificates required under...
• 653.310   Employment certificates on file; list of minor employees.
  No child under 18 years of age shall be employed or permitted to work in any employment listed in ORS 653.320 (2) unless the person...
• 653.315   Working hours for children under 16 years of age; exceptions; mealtimes; posting notice of hours.
  (1) A child under 16 years of age may not be employed for longer than 10 hours for any one day or more than six...
• 653.320   Employment of children under 14 years; exceptions.
  (1) No child under the age of 14 years shall be employed in any work, or labor of any form for wages or other compensation...
• 653.325   [Repealed by 1967 c.527 §3]
• 653.326   Employment of professionally trained minors allowed with permit.
  (1) The Wage and Hour Commission may by special permit authorize a child under 18 years of age to engage in employment otherwise prohibited by...
• 653.330   Employment of minors in certain logging operations prohibited.
  No person shall employ or allow: (1) Any person under the age of 18 years to act as engineer of or have charge of or...
• 653.335   Employment of minors as elevator operators prohibited.
  No person shall employ or allow any person under the age of 18 years to run, operate or have charge of, any elevator used for...
• 653.340   Employment of minors for message and delivery service.
  (1) No person under the age of 18 years shall be employed or permitted to work as a messenger for a telegraph or messenger company...
• 653.345   Legislative findings.
  The Legislative Assembly finds that the crops of berry and bean growers in Oregon are imperiled by the federal law prohibiting the employment of youthful...
• 653.350   Employment of children under 12 years for certain agricultural labor; conditions.
  (1) An individual who is less than 12 years of age but not less than nine years of age may be employed to pick berries...
• 653.355   Exemption of certain employers.
  Nothing in ORS 653.345, 653.350 and 653.355 shall apply to employers which are exempt from the child labor provisions of the Federal Fair Labor Standards...
• 653.360   Employment of minors in certain boating, fishing and agricultural situations.
  Notwithstanding any other provision of ORS 653.305 to 653.370: (1) Minors 16 years of age and 17 years of age may be employed as assistants...
• 653.362   Exemption of minors serving as soccer referees.
  The provisions of ORS 653.305 to 653.370 do not apply to a person under 18 years of age serving as a referee or assistant referee...
• 653.365   Civil penalty exemption for unlawful employment of minors by parents or persons standing in place of parents.
  The provisions of ORS 653.370 do not apply when minors under 18 years of age are employed under the following circumstances: (1) The minor is...
• 653.370   Civil penalty for unlawful employment of minors.
  (1) In addition to any other penalty provided by law, the Commissioner of the Bureau of Labor and Industries may impose upon any person who...
• 653.405   [Repealed by 1971 c.626 §7]
• 653.410   [Repealed by 1971 c.626 §7]
• 653.415   [Repealed by 1971 c.626 §7]
• 653.420   [Repealed by 1971 c.626 §7]
• 653.425   [Repealed by 1971 c.626 §7]
• 653.430   [Repealed by 1971 c.626 §7]
• 653.435   [Repealed by 1971 c.626 §7]
• 653.440   [Repealed by 1971 c.626 §7]
• 653.445   [Amended by 1967 c.67 §23; repealed by 1971 c.626 §7]
• 653.505   Wage and Hour Commission; appointment; confirmation; term; vacancies.
  (1) The Wage and Hour Commission is established and shall be composed of three commissioners who shall be appointed by the Governor for the term...
• 653.510   Chairperson of commission; quorum; compensation and expenses.
  (1) On or before January 20 of each year, the commissioners shall elect a chairperson. Each chairperson shall hold the position until a successor is...
• 653.515   Commissioner as secretary; personnel and expenses.
  (1) The Commissioner of the Bureau of Labor and Industries shall be the secretary and executive officer of the Wage and Hour Commission. (2) The...
• 653.520   Duties of commission generally.
  The Wage and Hour Commission shall administer, execute and carry out the provisions of ORS 653.010 to 653.545 and 653.991. [Amended by 1975 c.605 §30]
• 653.525   Rules of commission.
  The Wage and Hour Commission may prepare, adopt and promulgate rules for the carrying into effect of ORS 653.305, 653.315 and 653.505 to 653.540, including...
• 653.530   Meetings and hearings; authority of commission; rules; witness fees.
  (1) The Wage and Hour Commission may hold meetings for the transaction of any of its business at such times and places as it may...
• 653.535   Investigating compliance with orders; prosecution for violation.
  The Wage and Hour Commission shall, from time to time, investigate and ascertain whether or not employers are observing and complying with its orders and...
• 653.540   Assistance to commission.
  The Commissioner of the Bureau of Labor and Industries shall, at all times, give to the Wage and Hour Commission any information or statistics in...
• 653.545   Visitation rights of commission; prosecution of offenses against child labor laws.
  (1) The Wage and Hour Commission or anyone authorized by the commission in writing may visit the factories, workshops and mercantile establishments in their several...
• 653.600   [1973 c.564 §2; repealed by 1975 c.114 §1]
• 653.605   [1973 c.564 §1; repealed by 1975 c.114 §1]
• 653.610   [1973 c.564 §6; repealed by 1975 c.114 §1]
• 653.615   [1973 c.564 §3; repealed by 1975 c.114 §1]
• 653.620   [1973 c.564 §5; repealed by 1975 c.114 §1]
• 653.625   [1973 c.564 §7; repealed by 1975 c.114 §1]
• 653.630   [1973 c.564 §8; repealed by 1975 c.114 §1]
• 653.635   [1973 c.564 §11; repealed by 1975 c.114 §1]
• 653.640   [1973 c.564 §9; repealed by 1975 c.114 §1]
• 653.645   [1973 c.564 §10; repealed by 1975 c.114 §1]
• 653.650   [1973 c.564 §12; repealed by 1975 c.114 §1]
• 653.655   [1973 c.564 §13; repealed by 1975 c.114 §1]
• 653.675   [1973 c.564 §14; repealed by 1975 c.114 §1]
• 653.680   [1973 c.564 §15; repealed by 1975 c.114 §1]
• 653.685   [1973 c.564 §17; repealed by 1975 c.114 §1]
• 653.690   [1973 c.564 §18; repealed by 1975 c.114 §1]
• 653.695   [1973 c.564 §19; repealed by 1975 c.114 §1]
• 653.700   [1973 c.564 §20; repealed by 1975 c.114 §1]
• 653.705   [1987 c.591 §2; 1997 c.170 §35; renumbered 735.700 in 2001]
• 653.715   [1987 c.591 §1; 1997 c.170 §36; 1999 c.547 §1; 2001 c.943 §19; renumbered 735.702 in 2001]
• 653.717   [1989 c.381 §1; repealed by 1999 c.547 §9]
• 653.725   [1987 c.591 §3; 1989 c.381 §17; renumbered 735.704 in 2001]
• 653.735   [1987 c.591 §5; renumbered 735.708 in 2001]
• 653.745   [1987 c.591 §§6,7; 1997 c.170 §37; 1999 c.547 §2; 2001 c.943 §20; renumbered 735.710 in 2001]
• 653.747   [1993 c.815 §34; 1999 c.547 §3; renumbered 735.712 in 2001]
• 653.748   [1989 c.381 §2; 1993 c.18 §137; repealed by 1999 c.547 §9]
• 653.750   [1989 c.381 §16a; repealed by 1999 c.547 §9]
• 653.755   [1987 c.591 §8; repealed by 1999 c.547 §9]
• 653.765   [1987 c.591 §9; 1989 c.171 §75; 1989 c.381 §4; 1997 c.170 §38; repealed by 1999 c.547 §9]
• 653.767   [1989 c.1092 §2; renumbered 279.315 in 1993]
• 653.770   [1989 c.381 §5a; repealed by 1995 c.79 §329]
• 653.775   [1987 c.591 §10; 1989 c.381 §5; 1993 c.815 §36; 1997 c.170 §39; repealed by 1999 c.547 §9]
• 653.785   [1987 c.591 §11; 1997 c.170 §40; repealed by 1999 c.547 §9]
• 653.800   [1997 c.683 §2; 1999 c.634 §1; renumbered 735.720 in 2001]
• 653.805   [1997 c.683 §3; renumbered 735.722 in 2001]
• 653.810   [1997 c.683 §5; 1999 c.634 §2; renumbered 735.724 in 2001]
• 653.815   [1997 c.683 §6; 1999 c.634 §3; renumbered 735.726 in 2001]
• 653.820   [1997 c.683 §7; 1999 c.634 §4; renumbered 735.728 in 2001]
• 653.825   [1997 c.683 §8; renumbered 735.730 in 2001]
• 653.830   [1997 c.683 §9; renumbered 735.732 in 2001]
• 653.835   [1997 c.683 §4; renumbered 735.734 in 2001]
• 653.840   [1997 c.683 §11; renumbered 735.736 in 2001]
• 653.845   [1997 c.683 §12; renumbered 735.738 in 2001]
• 653.850   [1997 c.683 §10; 1999 c.634 §5; renumbered 735.740 in 2001]
• 653.990   [Subsections (1) and (2) enacted as 1967 c.596 §14; repealed by 1971 c.626 §7]
• 653.991   Penalties.
  Violation of any provision of this section or ORS 653.010 to 653.545 or of any rule adopted by the Wage and Hour Commission under ORS...
• 653.992   [1973 c.564 §16; repealed by 1975 c.114 §1]

Last modified: August 7, 2008