ORS 420.074: Employment status of adjudicated youth.

While temporarily employed under the provisions of ORS 420.060 to 420.074, adjudicated youths placed in a youth correction facility are entitled to the protection and benefits of ORS chapters 652, 654 and 656 to the same extent as other employees of their employer under 21, except that: (1) Payment of wages by an employer of an adjudicated youth directly to the superintendent as provided by ORS 420.065 (2) shall not be deemed in violation of ORS chapter 652; and (2) Compensation paid under ORS chapter 656 that is not expended on medical services shall be treated in the same manner as the adjudicated youth’s earnings under ORS 420.065, so long as the adjudicated youth remains in the legal custody of the youth correction facility. [1969 c.410 §4; 1995 c.79 §217; 1995 c.422 §100; 2021 c.489 §119]