As used in ORS § 657.370 to 657.390, unless the context requires otherwise:

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Terms Used In Oregon Statutes 657.370

  • 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
  • Week: means any period of seven consecutive calendar days ending at midnight, as the director may prescribe by rule. See Oregon Statutes 657.010

(1) ‘Affected employee‘ means an individual who is employed as a member of an affected group by the shared work employer, other than on a seasonal, temporary or intermittent basis, immediately preceding the submission by the employer of the shared work plan.

(2) ‘Affected group’ means three or more employees designated by the employer to participate in a shared work plan.

(3) ‘Approved shared work plan’ or ‘approved plan’ means an employer’s shared work plan that meets the requirements of ORS § 657.375.

(4) ‘Normal weekly hours of work’ means the number of hours in a week that the employee normally would work for the shared work employer or 40 hours, whichever is less.

(5) ‘Shared work employer’ means an employer with a shared work plan in effect.

(6) ‘Shared work plan’ or ‘plan’ means an employer’s voluntary, written plan for reducing unemployment, under which a specified group of employees shares the work remaining after their normal weekly hours of work are reduced. [1982 s.s.1 c.2 § 8; 2007 c.71 § 212; 2013 c.704 § 2; 2023 c.58 § 1]