Terms Used In Oregon Statutes > Chapter 663 > Elections

• Board: means the Employment Relations Board. See Oregon Statutes 663.005
• City: includes any incorporated village or town. See Oregon Statutes 174.100
• Conciliator: means the head of the State Conciliation Service. See Oregon Statutes 663.005
• Contract: A legal written agreement that becomes binding when signed.
• Corporation: A legal entity owned by the holders of shares of stock that have been issued, and that can own, receive, and transfer property, and carry on business in its own name.
• Employee: includes any employee, and is not limited to the employees of a particular employer unless this chapter explicitly states otherwise, and includes any individual whose work has ceased as a consequence of, or in connection with, a current labor dispute and who has not obtained any other regular and substantially equivalent employment, but does not include an individual:

  (a) Employed in agricultural labor as defined in ORS § 657. See Oregon Statutes 663.005

• Employer: includes any person acting as an agent of an employer, directly or indirectly, but does not include:

  (a) The United States or any wholly owned government corporation, or any Federal Reserve Bank. See Oregon Statutes 663.005

• Jurisdiction: (1) The legal authority of a court to hear and decide a case. Concurrent jurisdiction exists when two courts have simultaneous responsibility for the same case. (2) The geographic area over which the court has authority to decide cases.
• Labor dispute: includes any controversy concerning terms, tenure or conditions of employment or concerning the association or representation of persons in negotiating, fixing, maintaining, changing or seeking to arrange terms or conditions of employment, regardless of whether the disputants stand in the proximate relation of employer and employee. See Oregon Statutes 663.005
• Labor organization: means an organization of any kind, or an agency or an employee representation committee or plan, in which employees participate and which exists for the purpose, in whole or in part, of dealing with employers concerning grievances, labor disputes, wages, rates of pay, hours of employment or conditions of work. See Oregon Statutes 663.005
• Obligation: An order placed, contract awarded, service received, or similar transaction during a given period that will require payments during the same or a future period.
• Person: includes individuals, corporations, associations, firms, partnerships, limited liability companies and joint stock companies. See Oregon Statutes 174.100
• Representative: includes an individual or labor organization. See Oregon Statutes 663.005
• Supervisor: means any individual, other than a licensed professional or practical nurse, having authority, in the interest of the employer, to hire, transfer, suspend, lay off, recall, promote, discharge, assign, reward or discipline other employees, or responsibly to direct them, or to adjust their grievances, or effectively to recommend such action, if in connection with the foregoing the exercise of such authority is not of a merely routine or clerical nature, but requires the use of independent judgment. See Oregon Statutes 663.005
• Unfair labor practice: means any unfair labor practice listed in ORS § 663. See Oregon Statutes 663.005
• United States: includes territories, outlying possessions and the District of Columbia. See Oregon Statutes 174.100