Oregon Statutes 657.020 – Employing unit
(1) As used in this chapter, unless the context requires otherwise, ’employing unit’ means:
Terms Used In Oregon Statutes 657.020
- Bankruptcy: Refers to statutes and judicial proceedings involving persons or businesses that cannot pay their debts and seek the assistance of the court in getting a fresh start. Under the protection of the bankruptcy court, debtors may discharge their debts, perhaps by paying a portion of each debt. Bankruptcy judges preside over these proceedings.
- 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.
- Partnership: A voluntary contract between two or more persons to pool some or all of their assets into a business, with the agreement that there will be a proportional sharing of profits and losses.
- Person: includes individuals, corporations, associations, firms, partnerships, limited liability companies and joint stock companies. See Oregon Statutes 174.100
- political subdivision: means any county, city, district organized for public purposes, or any other political subdivision or public corporation, including any entity organized pursuant to ORS § 190. See Oregon Statutes 657.097
- state government: means the executive department, the judicial department and the legislative department. See Oregon Statutes 174.111
- Trustee: A person or institution holding and administering property in trust.
(a) Any individual or type of organization, including any partnership, association, limited liability company, limited liability partnership, trust, estate, joint stock company, insurance company or corporation, whether domestic or foreign, or the receiver, trustee in bankruptcy, trustee, or successor thereof, or the legal representative of a deceased person, who has or had in its employ one or more individuals performing services for it within this state.
(b) This state, including every state officer, board, commission, department, institution, branch and agency of the state government.
(c) Any people’s utility district.
(d) Any political subdivision.
(e) Any Indian tribe or subdivision, subsidiary or business enterprise wholly owned by an Indian tribe.
(2) All individuals performing services within this state for any employing unit that maintains two or more separate establishments within this state are deemed to be employed by a single employing unit for all the purposes of this chapter, except that for the purposes of this chapter each of the various agencies, boards, commissions, departments, institutions and political subdivisions of this state shall be deemed separate employing units. [Amended by 1955 c.655 § 1; 1957 c.682 § 1; 1959 c.398 § 1; 1973 c.715 § 1; 1977 c.295 § 1; 1995 c.93 § 37; 1997 c.646 § 14; 2001 c.572 § 1]