Bill Text: OR HB3138 | 2013 | Regular Session | Introduced

Oregon House Bill 3138 (Prior Session Legislation)

Bill Title: Relating to payment of wages for accrued vacation time.

Sponsorship: Partisan Bill (Democrat 2)

Status: (Failed) 2013-07-08 - In committee upon adjournment. [HB3138 Detail]

Download: Oregon-2013-HB3138-Introduced.html



     77th OREGON LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY--2013 Regular Session

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LC 3058

                         House Bill 3138

Sponsored by Representative GELSER; Representative WITT

                             SUMMARY

The following summary is not prepared by the sponsors of the
measure and is not a part of the body thereof subject to
consideration by the Legislative Assembly. It is an editor's
brief statement of the essential features of the measure as
introduced.

  Includes payments due for accrued vacation time in meaning of
wages for purposes of wage claim. Prohibits certain employers
from adopting policy for forfeiture of accrued vacation wages
upon termination of employment. Subjects employer that fails to
pay accrued vacation wages upon termination of employment to
statutory requirements for payment of other types of wages upon
termination of employment.

                        A BILL FOR AN ACT
Relating to payment of wages for accrued vacation time.
Be It Enacted by the People of the State of Oregon:
  SECTION 1.  { + (1) If a contract of employment or employer
policy provides for paid vacation time, payments due for accrued
vacation time are wages.
  (2) Unless otherwise provided by a collective bargaining
agreement:
  (a) If the employment of an employee is terminated without the
employee's having used all accrued vacation time, the employer
shall pay the amounts owing for accrued vacation time as required
for the payment of other wages under ORS 652.140.
  (b) An employment contract or employer policy may not provide
for the forfeiture of accrued vacation wages upon termination.
  (3) Nothing in this section requires an employer to adopt a
policy for providing paid vacation time or prevents an employer
from establishing a limit on the number of paid vacation hours an
employee may accrue. + }
  SECTION 2.  { + Section 1 of this 2013 Act applies to vacation
wages accrued in accordance with a collective bargaining
agreement or an employer policy before, on or after the effective
date of this 2013 Act. + }
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