Oregon Statutes 657.380 – Eligibility of employees; benefit limitation
(1) Notwithstanding any other provision of this chapter, for the purposes of ORS § 657.370 to 657.390, an individual is unemployed and eligible to receive shared work benefits with respect to any week if, in addition to meeting all other eligibility requirements of this chapter, the Director of the Employment Department finds that:
Terms Used In Oregon Statutes 657.380
- Benefit year: means a period of 52 consecutive weeks commencing with the first week with respect to which an individual files an initial valid claim for benefits, and thereafter the 52 consecutive weeks period beginning with the first week with respect to which the individual next files an initial valid claim after the termination of the individual's last preceding benefit year except that the benefit year shall be 53 weeks if the filing of an initial valid claim would result in overlapping any quarter of the base year of a previously filed initial valid claim. See Oregon Statutes 657.010
- Benefits: means the money allowances payable to unemployed persons under this chapter. See Oregon Statutes 657.010
- 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
- wages: means all remuneration for employment, including the cash value, as determined by the Director of the Employment Department under the regulations of the director, of all remuneration paid in any medium other than cash. See Oregon Statutes 657.105
- Week: means any period of seven consecutive calendar days ending at midnight, as the director may prescribe by rule. See Oregon Statutes 657.010
(a) During the week the individual is employed as a member of an affected group in an approved plan that was approved prior to the week and is in effect for the week.
(b) During the week the individual’s normal weekly hours of work were reduced, in accordance with an approved plan, at least 10 percent but not more than 50 percent, with a corresponding reduction in wages.
(2) Shared work benefits may not be paid to an eligible individual in an amount greater than 26 times the individual’s weekly benefit amount of regular benefits.
(3) The total amount of regular benefits and shared work benefits paid to an individual in a benefit year may not exceed the total for the benefit year as provided in ORS § 657.150 (5).
(4) An otherwise eligible individual may not be denied benefits under this section:
(a) Because of the application of any provision of this chapter relating to availability for work, active search for work or refusal to apply for or accept work from other than the individual’s shared work employer.
(b) For participating in training to enhance the job skills of the individual, if the training is sponsored by the employer or funded under the federal Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act, and approved by the director. [1982 s.s.1 c.2 § 10; 2009 c.377 § 1; 2013 c.704 § 4; 2017 c.185 § 16; 2017 c.297 § 37; 2023 c.58 § 2]