Oregon Statutes 652.210 – Definitions for ORS 652.210 to 652.235
As used in ORS § 652.210 to 652.235, unless the context requires otherwise:
Terms Used In Oregon Statutes 652.210
- City: includes any incorporated village or town. See Oregon Statutes 174.100
- Contract: A legal written agreement that becomes binding when signed.
- Corporation: A legal entity owned by the holders of shares of stock that have been issued, and that can own, receive, and transfer property, and carry on business in its own name.
- Fixed Rate: Having a "fixed" rate means that the APR doesn't change based on fluctuations of some external rate (such as the "Prime Rate"). In other words, a fixed rate is a rate that is not a variable rate. A fixed APR can change over time, in several circumstances:
- You are late making a payment or commit some other default, triggering an increase to a penalty rate
- The bank changes the terms of your account and you do not reject the change.
- The rate expires (if the rate was fixed for only a certain period of time).
- Gender identity: means an individual's gender-related identity, appearance, expression or behavior, regardless of whether the identity, appearance, expression or behavior differs from that associated with the gender assigned to the individual at birth. See Oregon Statutes 174.100
- Person: includes individuals, corporations, associations, firms, partnerships, limited liability companies and joint stock companies. See Oregon Statutes 174.100
- Sexual orientation: means an individual's actual or perceived heterosexuality, homosexuality or bisexuality. See Oregon Statutes 174.100
(1)(a) ‘Compensation’ includes wages, salary, bonuses, benefits, fringe benefits and equity-based compensation.
(b) ‘Compensation’ does not include vaccine incentives.
(2) ‘Employee’ means any individual who, otherwise than as a copartner of the employer, as an independent contractor or as a participant in a work training program administered under the state or federal assistance laws, renders personal services wholly or partly in this state to an employer who pays or agrees to pay such individual at a fixed rate. However, when services are rendered only partly in this state, an individual is not an employee unless the contract of employment of the employee has been entered into, or payments thereunder are ordinarily made or to be made, within this state.
(3)(a) ‘Employer’ means any person employing one or more employees, including the State of Oregon or any political subdivision thereof or any county, city, district, authority, public corporation or entity and any of their instrumentalities organized and existing under law or charter.
(b) ‘Employer’ does not include the federal government.
(4) ‘Equal-pay analysis’ means an evaluation process to assess and correct wage disparities among employees who perform work of comparable character.
(5) ‘Gender identity’ has the meaning given that term in ORS § 174.100.
(6) ‘Protected class’ means a group of persons distinguished by race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, marital status, veteran status, disability or age.
(7) ‘Public health emergency’ means:
(a) A public health emergency declared under ORS § 433.441.
(b) An emergency declared under ORS § 401.165 if related to a public health emergency as defined in ORS § 433.442.
(8) ‘Rate’ with reference to wages means:
(a) The basis of compensation for services by an employee for an employer; and
(b) Compensation based on the time spent in the performance of the services, on the number of operations accomplished or on the quantity produced or handled.
(9) ‘Sexual orientation’ has the meaning given that term in ORS § 174.100.
(10) ‘System’ means a consistent and verifiable method in use at the time that a violation is alleged under ORS § 652.220.
(11) ‘Unpaid wages’ means the difference between the wages actually paid to an employee and the wages required under ORS § 652.220 to be paid to the employee.
(12) ‘Vaccine incentives’ means monetary or nonmonetary incentives, including but not limited to additional paid time off or protected time off from work provided by employers to employees who have been immunized against infectious diseases for which a public health emergency has been declared.
(13) ‘Veteran status’ means an individual is a veteran as defined in ORS § 408.225.
(14) ‘Wages’ means all compensation for performance of service by an employee for an employer, whether paid by the employer or another person, or paid in cash or any medium other than cash.
(15) ‘Working conditions’ includes work environment, hours, time of day, physical surroundings and potential hazards encountered by an employee.
(16) ‘Work of comparable character’ means work that requires substantially similar knowledge, skill, effort, responsibility and working conditions in the performance of work, regardless of job description or job title. [1955 c.193 § 1; 1985 c.100 § 1; 1987 c.158 § 124; 1993 c.739 § 25; 2005 c.22 § 457; 2017 c.197 § 1; 2019 c.617 § 1; 2021 c.363 2,3,4; 2021 c.367 § 29; 2022 c.23 1,2]