Chapter 46
AN ACT
HB 2207
Relating to wage threshold for employment to be subject to unemployment
insurance laws; amending ORS 657.025 and 657.050.
Be It Enacted by the People of
the State of
SECTION 1.
ORS 657.025 is amended to read:
657.025. (1) As used in
this chapter, unless the context requires otherwise, “employer” means any
employing unit which employs one or more individuals in an employment subject
to this chapter in each of 18 separate weeks during any calendar year, or in
which [its] the employing unit’s
total payroll during any calendar quarter amounts to [$225] $1,000 or more.
(2) Whenever any helper,
assistant or employee of an employer engages any other person in the work [which said] that the helper,
assistant or employee is doing for the employer, with the employer’s actual,
constructive or implied knowledge, [such]
the employer shall, for all purposes of this chapter, be deemed the
employer of [such] the other
person, whether [such] the other
person is paid by the [said] helper,
assistant or employee[,] or by the
employer. All persons employed by an employer in all of the employer’s several
places of employment maintained within the state shall be treated as employed
by a single employer for the purposes of this chapter.
SECTION 2.
ORS 657.050 is amended to read:
657.050. (1) As used
in this chapter, “employment” does not include:
(a) Domestic service
performed in a private home, local college club[,] or local chapter of a college fraternity or sorority, unless
[such] the domestic service is
performed for an employing unit [who]
that paid to individuals employed in [such] the domestic service cash remuneration of $1,000 or
more in a calendar quarter in the current calendar year or the preceding
calendar year.
(b) Child care service
provided through the Department of Human Services to an individual who is the
recipient of public assistance.
(c) Service not in the
course of the employer’s trade or business or that does not promote or advance
the trade or business of the employer unless [such] the service is performed in each of 18 weeks in a
calendar year or total payroll for [such]
the service is [$225] $1,000
or more during any calendar quarter.
(d) Child care service
provided in the home of the child care provider by the provider.
(2) The provisions of
subsection (1)(b) and (d) of this section do not apply to services performed
for:
(a) A nonprofit
employing unit;
(b) This state;
(c) A political
subdivision of this state; or
(d) An Indian tribe.
Approved by the Governor April 17, 2007
Filed in the office of Secretary of State April 17, 2007
Effective date January 1, 2008
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