Labor Law Requirements

• Minimum Wage (Required)
• Workers’ Compensation (Required)
• Discrimination (Required)
• Child Labor Law (Recommended)

• Family and Medical Leave (Required)
• Equal Employment Opportunity (Required)
• USERRA (Required)
• OSHA (Required)
• Federal Minimum Wage (Required)
• Polygraph Protection Test (Required)

Recent Changes

Discrimination - December 2012

Oklahoma added “Genetic Information” to the list of prohibited discrimination categories. This is a substantive change.

Workers' Compensation - August 2011

Oklahoma revised their Workers’ Compensation poster to reflect recent changes to the law. Among the changes was the dropping of the 6 month time limit for filing claims of Workers’ Compensation after the termination of employment. “Cumulative trauma” was added as a compensable claim. The website is now listed for claims forms in addition to the statement that an employer should provide them to the employee.

There was also the addition of a 7 day time limit for reporting in writing to an employer or insurance carrier if receiving temporary disability benefits should an employee’s income or employment status change. Previously the requirement was to report “promptly.”

Employers are now required to provide diagnostic services to injured employees.

Employers now have only 10 days to report injuries of employees to the Workers’ Compensation Court, as opposed to the previous “10 days or a reasonable time thereafter.”

An insurer that does not commence payments of disability benefits within the time provided by law for undisputed injury notice must pay the employee a 15% penalty. Previously the notice simply stated the insurer “may be subject to a penalty of fifteen percent.”

Discrimination - Minimum Wage Act - Child Labor Law - May 2010

• Discrimination - Non-Substantive wording changes, including all occurrences of the word "Handicap" has been changed to "Disability".
• Minimum Wage - Non-Substantive changes include address and phone number changes, as well as replacing the 2008 information with "State Minimum Wage $7.25 per hour Effective July 24, 2009.
• Child Labor Law - Non-Substantive changes include address and phone number changes, as well as added the statement "Employers are required to have an employment certificate from the school before a minor is allowed to work" to the Employment Certificate section.

E-Verify - July 2008

The Oklahoma Taxpayer and Citizen Protection Act of 2007 prohibits any public employer from entering into a contract for the physical performance of services within the state unless the contractor registers and participates in the E-Verify. The law includes a provision making it a discriminatory practice for an employer to terminate a work-authorized employee while retaining a non-work authorized employee, if the two employees had substantially similar job duties. An employer is indemnified under this provision, however, if it is properly using the E-Verify system.
E-Verify is a separate poster available for free download in our Specialty Poster section and is NOT included on the OK All-In-One poster. You must post an E-Verify Participation poster and a Right to Work notice. Both posters are required to be posted in English and Spanish.