(1) As used in this chapter, unless the context requires otherwise, ’employer’ means any employing unit which employs one or more individuals in an employment subject to this chapter in each of 18 separate weeks during any calendar year, or in which the employing unit’s total payroll during any calendar quarter amounts to $1,000 or more.

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Terms Used In Oregon Statutes 657.025

  • Calendar quarter: means the period of three consecutive calendar months ending on March 31, June 30, September 30 or December 31, or the approximate equivalent thereof, as the Director of the Employment Department may, by rule, prescribe. See Oregon Statutes 657.010
  • employee: means any person, including aliens and minors, employed for remuneration or under any contract of hire, written or oral, express or implied, by an employer subject to this chapter in an employment subject to this chapter. See Oregon Statutes 657.015
  • employer: means any employing unit which employs one or more individuals in an employment subject to this chapter in each of 18 separate weeks during any calendar year, or in which the employing unit's total payroll during any calendar quarter amounts to $1,000 or more. See Oregon Statutes 657.025
  • employment: includes service that is:

    (a) Subject to the tax imposed by the Federal Unemployment Tax Act; or

    (b) Required to be covered under this chapter as a condition for employers to receive a full tax credit against the tax imposed by the Federal Unemployment Tax Act. See Oregon Statutes 657.030

  • payroll: means all wages paid to employees in any employment subject to this chapter. See Oregon Statutes 657.095
  • Person: includes individuals, corporations, associations, firms, partnerships, limited liability companies and joint stock companies. See Oregon Statutes 174.100

(2) Whenever any helper, assistant or employee of an employer engages any other person in the work that the helper, assistant or employee is doing for the employer, with the employer’s actual, constructive or implied knowledge, the employer shall, for all purposes of this chapter, be deemed the employer of the other person, whether the other person is paid by the helper, assistant or employee or by the employer. All persons employed by an employer in all of the employer’s several places of employment maintained within the state shall be treated as employed by a single employer for the purposes of this chapter. [Amended by 1953 c.494 § 1; 1955 c.655 § 2; 1959 c.405 § 1; 1971 c.463 § 2; 1973 c.300 § 1; 1975 c.257 § 1; 1981 c.77 § 1; 2007 c.46 § 1]