ORS 657.610: Director; powers and duties; rules.
Edition: 2025 EditionEffective: 2026-01-01Last verified: 2026-09-07
The Director of the Employment Department may: (1) For purposes of administration and control, and with the approval of the Governor, organize and reorganize the department in whatever manner the director considers appropriate to carry out the duties, functions and powers of the department. (2) Appoint all subordinate officers and employees of the department, whether classified or unclassified, and prescribe their duties and compensation, subject to applicable provisions of the State Personnel Relations Law. (3) Delegate to departmental officers and employees such responsibility and authority as the director determines necessary. (4)(a) Determine all questions of general policy for this chapter and for the provisions of ORS chapter 657B that are administered by the director; (b) Adopt rules for this chapter and for the provisions of ORS chapter 657B that are administered by the director; and (c) Administer and enforce this chapter and the provisions of ORS chapter 657B that are administered by the director. (5) Sue and be sued in the name of the director, and shall have a seal bearing the name of the Employment Department. (6) Adopt proper rules to regulate the mode and manner of all investigations. (7) Prescribe the time, place and manner of making claims for benefits under this chapter and ORS chapter 657B, the kind and character of notices required thereunder and the procedure for investigating and deciding claims. (8) Enter into contracts relating to the federal Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act deemed necessary by the director to fulfill the mission of the department. The director may enter into contracts with other states or governments, public bodies or persons to provide or receive services. Contracts entered into by the director shall be executed in the name of the state, by and through the Employment Department. [Amended by 1959 c.583 §23; 1969 c.597 §180; 1983 c.522 §7; 1993 c.344 §6; 1999 c.849 §§137,138; 2001 c.684 §§32,33; 2003 c.75 §52; 2003 c.199 §§1,2; 2015 c.27 §58; 2017 c.185 §17; 2017 c.297 §38; 2025 c.43 §1]
Administrative rules citing this section
- OAR 414-050-0010: Social Security Numbers — authority
- OAR 471-010-0015: Effective Date of Administrative Rule Adoptions — implements
- OAR 471-010-0020: Attorney General’s Model Rules — implements
- OAR 471-010-0020: Attorney General’s Model Rules — authority
- OAR 471-010-0025: Exemption from Summary Determination — implements
- OAR 471-010-0025: Exemption from Summary Determination — authority
- OAR 471-010-0030: Repealing Existing Rules — implements
- OAR 471-010-0040: Filing Timely Notices — authority
- OAR 471-010-0045: Witness Qualification — implements
- OAR 471-010-0045: Witness Qualification — authority
- OAR 471-010-0060: Customer Information and Disclosure: Reimbursable Expenses — authority
- OAR 471-010-0070: Customer Information and Disclosure: Workforce Investment Act Methods of Administration — authority
- OAR 471-010-0080: Customer Information and Disclosure: Definitions — authority
- OAR 471-010-0085: Customer Information and Disclosure: Responsibility of Employment Department Staff — authority
- OAR 471-010-0090: Customer Information and Disclosure: Disclosure Charges — authority
- OAR 471-010-0100: Customer Information and Disclosure: Information Collection — authority
- OAR 471-010-0105: Customer Information and Disclosure: General Disclosures — authority
- OAR 471-010-0110: Customer Information and Disclosure: Unemployment Insurance Disclosures — authority
- OAR 471-010-0111: Customer Information and Disclosure: Unemployment Insurance Tax Disclosure — authority
- OAR 471-010-0115: Customer Information and Disclosure: Business and Employment Services Disclosures — authority
- OAR 471-010-0120: Customer Information and Disclosure: Workforce and Economic Research Disclosures — authority
- OAR 471-010-0125: Customer Information and Disclosure: Audit Authority and Written Agreements With Entities Having Access to Employment Department Information — authority
- OAR 471-012-0005: Interagency Shared Information System Purpose — implements
- OAR 471-012-0005: Interagency Shared Information System Purpose — authority
- OAR 471-012-0010: Definitions — implements
- OAR 471-012-0010: Definitions — authority
- OAR 471-012-0015: Data Collection for the Interagency Shared Information System — implements
- OAR 471-012-0015: Data Collection for the Interagency Shared Information System — authority
- OAR 471-012-0020: Disclosure of Interagency Shared Information System Data — implements
- OAR 471-012-0020: Disclosure of Interagency Shared Information System Data — authority
- OAR 471-015-0005: Performance Reporting Information System Purpose — implements
- OAR 471-015-0005: Performance Reporting Information System Purpose — authority
- OAR 471-015-0010: Definitions — implements
- OAR 471-015-0010: Definitions — authority
- OAR 471-015-0015: Data Collection for the Performance Reporting Information System — implements
- OAR 471-015-0015: Data Collection for the Performance Reporting Information System — authority
- OAR 471-015-0020: Disclosure of Performance Reporting Information System Data — implements
- OAR 471-015-0020: Disclosure of Performance Reporting Information System Data — authority
- OAR 471-020-0010: Definitions — authority
- OAR 471-020-0020: Claimant Reemployment Services — authority
- OAR 471-020-0021: Exemptions from Enrollment — authority
- OAR 471-020-0030: JOBS Plus Program — authority
- OAR 471-020-0035: Job Listings — implements
- OAR 471-020-0035: Job Listings — authority
- OAR 471-020-0040: Discontinuation and Reinstatement of Services To An Employer — implements
- OAR 471-020-0040: Discontinuation and Reinstatement of Services To An Employer — authority
- OAR 471-030-0012: Standard Base Year Defined — implements
- OAR 471-030-0012: Standard Base Year Defined — authority
- OAR 471-030-0017: Defining and Allocating Remuneration, Holidays, and Vacations — authority
- OAR 471-030-0020: Retirement Pay, Allocation of Periodic and Lump Sum Payments — authority
- OAR 471-030-0034: Reemployment Service Assistance and Eligibility — authority
- OAR 471-030-0036: Eligibility Factors — authority
- OAR 471-030-0037: Prevailing Rate of Pay — authority
- OAR 471-030-0040: Initial, Additional, and Reopened Claims — authority
- OAR 471-030-0045: Continued Claims — authority
- OAR 471-030-0052: Misrepresentation Disqualification — authority
- OAR 471-030-0053: Waiving Recovery of Overpayments — authority
- OAR 471-030-0054: Theft Cases — authority
- OAR 471-030-0055: Continuous Jurisdiction — authority
- OAR 471-030-0058: Offset of Unemployment Compensation Debt Through U.S. Treasury Offset Program — implements
- OAR 471-030-0058: Offset of Unemployment Compensation Debt Through U.S. Treasury Offset Program — authority
- OAR 471-030-0065: Discretionary Filing Procedures — authority
- OAR 471-030-0071: Benefit eligibility during a declared emergency — authority
- OAR 471-030-0074: School Employees — authority
- OAR 471-030-0075: Contract or reasonable assurance defined — authority
- OAR 471-030-0079: Shared Work Plans and Benefits — authority
- OAR 471-030-0080: Career and Technical Training — authority
- OAR 471-030-0083: Employer Penalties — authority
- OAR 471-030-0125: Drug, Cannabis, and Alcohol Adjudication Policy — authority
- OAR 471-030-0126: Absence Due to Alcohol, Cannabis, or Drug Use — authority
- OAR 471-030-0210: Interstate Reciprocal Overpayment Recovery Arrangement — authority
- OAR 471-030-0215: Union Referral List — authority
- OAR 471-030-0220: Economically Distressed Worker Training — implements
- OAR 471-030-0220: Economically Distressed Worker Training — authority
- OAR 471-030-0225: Extended Benefits Look Back — authority
- OAR 471-030-0235: Self-employment Assistance Program — authority
- OAR 471-030-0320: Recovery by Offset of Overpaid Benefits and Recovery Periods — authority
- OAR 471-031-0005: Payroll Records — authority
- OAR 471-031-0017: Corporate Officer/Director Election — authority
- OAR 471-031-0072: Application of Payments — authority
- OAR 471-031-0077: Coemployment/Payrolling — implements
- OAR 471-031-0085: Employer Wages and Hours of Work Report — authority
- OAR 471-031-0141: Partial Transfer of Experience — authority
- OAR 471-031-0142: Acquiring an Employing Entity: Active or Inactive — implements
- OAR 471-031-0151: Failure to File Reports or Pay Tax — Good Cause — implements
- OAR 471-031-0151: Failure to File Reports or Pay Tax — Good Cause — authority
- OAR 471-031-0155: Investigatory Subpoenas — implements
- OAR 471-031-0181: Independent Contractor — authority
- OAR 471-031-0185: Indian Tribes — implements
- OAR 471-031-0185: Indian Tribes — authority
- OAR 471-031-0190: Shopping News — implements
- OAR 471-031-0190: Shopping News — authority
- OAR 471-031-0195: Horticultural Commodity — implements
- OAR 471-031-0195: Horticultural Commodity — authority
- OAR 471-031-0205: Cafeteria Plans — implements
- OAR 471-031-0205: Cafeteria Plans — authority
- OAR 471-031-0210: Bond or Deposit — implements
- OAR 471-031-0210: Bond or Deposit — authority
- OAR 471-031-0215: Registered Domestic Partnerships — implements
- OAR 471-031-0215: Registered Domestic Partnerships — authority
- OAR 471-031-0220: Franchisee — implements
- OAR 471-031-0220: Franchisee — authority
- OAR 471-031-0235: Volunteer Consideration — implements
- OAR 471-031-0235: Volunteer Consideration — authority
- OAR 471-031-0310: Benefits Obtained as a Result of Identity Theft — authority
- OAR 471-031-0315: Declaration that Oregon House Bill 3389 was passed to address the COVID-19 Pandemic. — authority
- OAR 471-031-0320: Implementation of Provisions Related to Unpaid Deferral Balances — authority
- OAR 471-040-0020: Subpoenas — implements
- OAR 471-040-0020: Subpoenas — authority
- OAR 471-040-0030: Administrative Law Judge’s Decision — authority
- OAR 471-041-0060: Application for Review — authority
- OAR 603-082-0010: Purpose — implements
- OAR 603-082-0020: Definitions — implements
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