Oregon Statutes 659A.001 – Definitions
As used in this chapter:
Terms Used In Oregon Statutes 659A.001
- Bankruptcy: Refers to statutes and judicial proceedings involving persons or businesses that cannot pay their debts and seek the assistance of the court in getting a fresh start. Under the protection of the bankruptcy court, debtors may discharge their debts, perhaps by paying a portion of each debt. Bankruptcy judges preside over these proceedings.
- Bureau: means the Bureau of Labor and Industries. See Oregon Statutes 659A.001
- Commissioner: means the Commissioner of the Bureau of Labor and Industries. See Oregon Statutes 659A.001
- Complaint: A written statement by the plaintiff stating the wrongs allegedly committed by the defendant.
- Fiduciary: A trustee, executor, or administrator.
- Person: includes individuals, corporations, associations, firms, partnerships, limited liability companies and joint stock companies. See Oregon Statutes 174.100
- public body: means state government bodies, local government bodies and special government bodies. See Oregon Statutes 174.109
- Race: includes physical characteristics that are historically associated with race, including but not limited to natural hair, hair texture, hair type and protective hairstyles. See Oregon Statutes 659A.001
- Statute: A law passed by a legislature.
- Unlawful employment practice: includes a practice that is specifically denominated in another statute of this state as an unlawful employment practice and that is specifically made subject to enforcement under this chapter. See Oregon Statutes 659A.001
- Unlawful practice: includes a practice that is specifically denominated in another statute of this state as an unlawful practice and that is specifically made subject to enforcement under this chapter, or a practice that violates a rule adopted by the commissioner for the enforcement of the provisions of this chapter. See Oregon Statutes 659A.001
(1) ‘Bureau’ means the Bureau of Labor and Industries.
(2) ‘Commissioner’ means the Commissioner of the Bureau of Labor and Industries.
(3) ‘Employee’ does not include any individual employed by the individual’s parents, spouse or child or in the domestic service of any person.
(4)(a) ‘Employer’ means any person who in this state, directly or through an agent, engages or uses the personal service of one or more employees, reserving the right to control the means by which such service is or will be performed.
(b) For the purposes of employee protections described in ORS § 659A.350, ’employer’ means any person who, in this state, is in an employment relationship with an intern as described in ORS § 659A.350.
(5) ‘Employment agency’ includes any person undertaking to procure employees or opportunities to work.
(6)(a) ‘Familial status’ means the relationship between one or more individuals who have not attained 18 years of age and who are domiciled with:
(A) A parent or another person having legal custody of the individual; or
(B) The designee of the parent or other person having such custody, with the written permission of the parent or other person.
(b) ‘Familial status’ includes any individual, regardless of age or domicile, who is pregnant or is in the process of securing legal custody of an individual who has not attained 18 years of age.
(7) ‘Labor organization’ includes any organization which is constituted for the purpose, in whole or in part, of collective bargaining or in dealing with employers concerning grievances, terms or conditions of employment or of other mutual aid or protection in connection with employees.
(8) ‘National origin’ includes ancestry.
(9) ‘Person’ includes:
(a) One or more individuals, partnerships, associations, labor organizations, limited liability companies, joint stock companies, corporations, legal representatives, trustees, trustees in bankruptcy or receivers.
(b) A public body as defined in ORS § 30.260.
(c) For purposes of ORS § 659A.145 and 659A.421 and the application of any federal housing law, a fiduciary, mutual company, trust or unincorporated organization.
(10) ‘Protective hairstyle’ means a hairstyle, hair color or manner of wearing hair that includes, but is not limited to, braids, regardless of whether the braids are created with extensions or styled with adornments, locs and twists.
(11) ‘Race’ includes physical characteristics that are historically associated with race, including but not limited to natural hair, hair texture, hair type and protective hairstyles.
(12) ‘Respondent’ means any person against whom a complaint or charge of an unlawful practice is filed with the commissioner or whose name has been added to such complaint or charge pursuant to ORS § 659A.835.
(13) ‘Unlawful employment practice’ means a practice specifically denominated as an unlawful employment practice in this chapter. ‘Unlawful employment practice’ includes a practice that is specifically denominated in another statute of this state as an unlawful employment practice and that is specifically made subject to enforcement under this chapter.
(14) ‘Unlawful practice’ means any unlawful employment practice or any other practice specifically denominated as an unlawful practice in this chapter. ‘Unlawful practice’ includes a practice that is specifically denominated in another statute of this state as an unlawful practice and that is specifically made subject to enforcement under this chapter, or a practice that violates a rule adopted by the commissioner for the enforcement of the provisions of this chapter. [2001 c.621 § 1; 2008 c.36 § 4; 2013 c.379 § 3; 2021 c.239 § 1]
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