Bill Text: OR SB677 | 2013 | Regular Session | Introduced

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Bill Title: Relating to payment of wages to seasonal farmworker on termination of employment.

Sponsorship: Broadly Bipartisan Bill

Status: (Passed) 2013-06-13 - Effective date, January 1, 2014. [SB677 Detail]

Download: Oregon-2013-SB677-Introduced.html

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     77th OREGON LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY--2013 Regular Session

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amended section is new. Matter within  { -  braces and minus
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LC 2423

                         Senate Bill 677

Sponsored by Senators THOMSEN, COURTNEY, Representative KOTEK;
  Senators BAERTSCHIGER JR, DINGFELDER, GEORGE, HANSELL, JOHNSON,
  OLSEN, ROBLAN, SHIELDS, WHITSETT, Representatives BAILEY,
  BERGER, CLEM, DEMBROW, DOHERTY, FAGAN, GALLEGOS, HOYLE,
  HUFFMAN, JENSON, JOHNSON, KENY-GUYER, KOMP, MATTHEWS, REARDON,
  THOMPSON, UNGER, 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.

  Creates exception to requirement that wages due to seasonal
farmworker must be paid immediately after termination of
employment.

                        A BILL FOR AN ACT
Relating to payment of wages to seasonal farmworker on
  termination of employment; amending ORS 652.145.
Be It Enacted by the People of the State of Oregon:
  SECTION 1. ORS 652.145 is amended to read:
  652.145.  { + (1) + } Notwithstanding ORS 652.140, if an
employee has worked for an employer as a seasonal farmworker,
whenever the employment terminates, all wages earned and unpaid
become due and payable immediately  { - . However, - }  { +
except:
  (a) Wages are due and payable by noon on the day after
termination of the employment of the seasonal farmworker if:
  (A) The termination occurs at the end of the harvest season;
  (B) The employer is a farmworker camp operator described in ORS
658.715 (1)(b) or (c); and
  (C) The farmworker is provided housing that complies with ORS
658.705 to 658.850 at no cost to the worker from the termination
of work until wages due are paid.
  (b)  + }If the employee quits without giving the employer at
least 48 hours' notice, wages earned and unpaid are due and
payable within 48 hours after the employee has quit, or at the
next regularly scheduled payday after the employee has quit,
whichever event first occurs.
   { +  (2) + } As used in this section, 'seasonal farmworker'
means an individual who, for an agreed remuneration or rate of
pay, performs temporary labor for another in the production of
farm products or in the planting, cultivating or harvesting of
seasonal agricultural crops or in the forestation or
reforestation of lands including, but not limited to, the
planting, transplanting, tubing, precommercial thinning and
thinning of trees and seedlings, the clearing, piling and
disposal of brush and slash and other related activities.
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