Labor Law Requirements

• Family Leave Act (Required)
• Minimum Wage (Required)
• Notice to Agriculture Employees (Required)
• OSHA (Required)
• Senate Bill 519 (Required)
• Unemployment Insurance* (Required)
• Workers’ Compensation* (Required)

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

Recent Changes

Senate Bill 519 - Minimum Wage - Family Leave Act - January 2010

• Senate Bill 519 - Substantive - Prohibits employers from taking adverse employment action against employees who decline to attend a meeting or participate in communication concerning employer's opinion about religious or political matters. Requires employers to post notice. Provides exceptions for religious organizations, political organizations and certain meetings and communications.
• Minimum Wage - Non-Substantive changes.
• Family Leave Act - Non-Substantive changes.

Minimum Wage - Agricultural Employees - January 2009

• Minimum Wage - The minimum wage will increase from $7.95 per hour to $8.40 per hour. Also, a new directive has been added to the “Paid rest periods” paragraph. It states “Certain employers are required to provide additional rest periods to employees to express milk for a child.”
• Agricultural Employees - The agricultural employees wage will increase from $7.95 to $8.40 per hour.
This was a Substantive change

OSHA - Minimum Wage - Family Leave Act - January 2008

• OSHA - The OSHA notice has been updated to specify that complaints of discrimination to the federal OSHA must be filed within 30 days of the act of discrimination.
• Minimum Wage - Oregon’s minimum wage is increasing on January 1, 2008 to $7.95 per hour. Both the Minimum Wage Notice and the Agricultural Minimum Wage Notice have been updated to reflect this change.
• Family Leave Act - The classifications of “grandparent, grandchild or same gender domestic partner” have been added as family members for whom an employee can take serious health condition leave. Additionally, a condition has been added stating that this leave “does not include an employee unable to work due to a compensable Workers Compensation injury”.
This was a Substantive change