OAR 471-070-0400: Wages: Definitions

(1) “Agricultural labor” (a) Except as provided in subsection (c) of this section, “agricultural labor” means service on a farm in connection with the production, raising, or harvesting of any agricultural or horticultural commodity, includes farming in all its branches, and, among other things, also includes: (A) Cultivating and tillage of the soil; (B) Dairying; (C) Raising, shearing, feeding, caring for, training, and management of livestock, bees, fur-bearing animals, wildlife, and poultry; and (D) Practices performed by a farmer or on a farm as an incident to or in conjunction with such farming operations, management, conservation, and improvement or maintenance of such farm and its tools and equipment, including preparation for market, delivery to storage or to market, or to carriers for transportation to market; and (b) “Agricultural labor” includes all services performed in the employ of the operator or group of operators of a farm or farms (or a cooperative organization of which such operator or operators are members) in handling, planting, drying, packing, packaging, processing, freezing, grading, storing, or delivering to storage or to market or to a carrier for transportation to market, in its unmanufactured state, any agricultural or horticultural commodity, but only if such operator or group of operators produced more than one-half of the commodity, as measured by volume, weight, or other customary means, with respect to which such service is performed. (c) “Agricultural labor” does not include, among other things, processing services that transform an agricultural commodity from its raw or natural state and services performed with respect to an agricultural product after it has been transformed from its raw or natural state. (d) “Farms,” as used in this section, includes stock, dairy, poultry, fruit, fur-bearing animals, Christmas tree and truck farms, plantations, orchards, ranches, nurseries, ranges, greenhouses or other similar structures used primarily for the raising of agricultural or horticultural commodities. (2) "Bonuses,” “fees,” and “prizes" means an extra payment given by an employer in consideration of performance, production, or a share of profits. (3) “Domestic service” (a) Except as provided in subsection (b) of this section, “domestic service” means general services of a household nature performed by an employee in or about a private home (permanent or temporary) of the person by whom the employee is employed. The term includes, but is not limited to, services performed as cooks, waiters/waitresses, butlers, housekeepers, child monitors, general house workers, personal attendants, baby-sitters, janitors, launderers, caretakers, gardeners, grooms, and chauffeurs of automobiles for family use. (b) “Domestic service” does not include work performed by: (A) A parent or spouse of the employer; (B) A child of the employer who is under 26 years of age; (C) Students who regularly attend elementary or secondary school during the day; (D) Children, other than children of the employer, who are under 14 years of age; (E) Children under 18 years of age who provide babysitting services and persons who provide babysitting on a casual basis; (F) Persons who perform casual labor in private homes or the maintenance of private homes or their premises, including but not limited to yard work, washing windows, and shoveling snow; (G) Individuals employed by organizations licensed as required by ORS 443.015 or 443.315; (H) Individuals performing companionship services exempt from the provisions of the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938 (29 U.S.C 201 et seq.); (I) Persons who perform house sitting duties that do not involve domestic service; (J) Persons who provide domestic service in exchange for an in-kind good or service; and (K) Services of those not of a household nature, such as services performed as a private secretary, tutor, nurse, or certified nursing assistant, even though performed in the employer’s private home. (4) “Employing unit” has the same definition as “employer” as provided by ORS 657B.010(15). (5) “Employment” means any service performed by an employee for an employer for remuneration or under any contract of hire, written or oral, expressed, or implied. (6) “Holiday” means any of the holidays listed in ORS 187.010(1)(b)–(k) and (2), 187.020 and any holiday designated by the employer, union contract, or otherwise. (7) "Holiday pay" means any remuneration that an employer pays an employee for a holiday, including, but not limited to, full or partial paid time off or additional pay for work on a holiday. (8) “Paid time off” means compensated time away from work provided by an employer that the employee can choose to use for any reason, including, but not limited to, vacation, sickness, and personal time. (9) “Private home,” as used in section (3) of this rule, means a fixed place of abode of an individual household. A separate and distinct dwelling unit maintained by a household in an apartment, house, hotel, or other similar establishment may constitute a private home, provided it is a place in which a person resides with the intention of residence or has so resided with the intention of returning. If a dwelling unit of an individual or family is used primarily as a boarding house for the purpose of supplying lodging to the public as a business enterprise, only that portion of the premises occupied by the individual or family may be considered a private home for the purposes of this rule. (10) “Sick pay” means remuneration paid by an employer to an employee for time away from work due to sickness, unless excluded as a fringe benefit under ORS 657.115. (11) “Stand-by pay” means remuneration paid by an employer to an employee who is required to be immediately available for work. (12) "Vacation pay" means remuneration paid by an employer to an employee for time away from work provided by an employer to an employee to use for any reason the employee chooses but does not include leave for sick pay, compensatory time, holiday, or other special leave.