Terms Used In Oregon Statutes > Chapter 58 > Filing Documents

• Affirmed: In the practice of the appellate courts, the decree or order is declared valid and will stand as rendered in the lower court.
• Alternate base year: means the last four completed calendar quarters preceding the benefit year. See Oregon Statutes 657B.010
• Average weekly wage: means the amount calculated by the Employment Department as the state average weekly covered wage under ORS § 657. See Oregon Statutes 657B.010
• 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.
• Base year: means the first four of the last five completed calendar quarters preceding the benefit year. See Oregon Statutes 657B.010
• Benefits: means family and medical leave insurance benefits. See Oregon Statutes 657B.010
• contributions: means the money payments made by any of the following under ORS § 657B. See Oregon Statutes 657B.010
• Covered individual: means any one of the following who qualifies under ORS § 657B. See Oregon Statutes 657B.010
• Dependent: A person dependent for support upon another.
• Domestic partner: means an individual joined in a domestic partnership. See Oregon Statutes 657B.010
• domestic professional corporation: means a corporation organized under this chapter for the specific purpose of rendering professional service or services and for such other purposes provided under this chapter. See Oregon Statutes 58.015
• Employer: means any person that employs one or more employees working anywhere in this state or any agent or employee of such person to whom the duties of the person under this chapter have been delegated. See Oregon Statutes 657B.010
• Employment agency: has the meaning given that term in ORS § 658. See Oregon Statutes 657B.010
• Family and medical leave insurance benefits: means the wage replacement benefits that are available to a covered individual under ORS § 657B. See Oregon Statutes 657B.010
• Family leave: means leave from work taken by a covered individual:

  (A) To care for and bond with a child during the first year after the child's birth or during the first year after the placement of the child through foster care or adoption; or

  (B) To care for a family member with a serious health condition. See Oregon Statutes 657B.010

• Foreign professional corporation: means a professional corporation organized under laws other than the laws of this state. See Oregon Statutes 58.015
• Garnishment: Generally, garnishment is a court proceeding in which a creditor asks a court to order a third party who owes money to the debtor or otherwise holds assets belonging to the debtor to turn over to the creditor any of the debtor
• Medical leave: means leave from work taken by a covered individual that is made necessary by the individual's own serious health condition. See Oregon Statutes 657B.010
• Oral argument: An opportunity for lawyers to summarize their position before the court and also to answer the judges' questions.
• Safe leave: means leave taken for any purpose described in ORS § 659A. See Oregon Statutes 657B.010
• Serious health condition: has the meaning given that term in ORS § 659A. See Oregon Statutes 657B.010
• Tribal government: has the meaning given that term in ORS § 181A. See Oregon Statutes 657B.010
• Wages: has the meaning given that term in ORS § 657. See Oregon Statutes 657B.010