Hours Worked: Oregon

Federal law and guidance on this subject should be reviewed together with this section.

Author: Sean Ray, Barran Liebman LLP

Summary

• Employers must provide certain employees with required meal breaks, rest breaks and breastfeeding breaks. See Break Periods.
• Time spent "engaged to wait" or "working on call" counts as hours worked. See Waiting Time and On-Call Time.
• Employees must be paid for certain hours when an employee is engaged in specific types of travel, outside of normal commuting time. See Travel Time.
• Oregon employers are subject to various other hours worked requirements. See Sleeping Time; Activities Before and After a Shift ('Preliminary and Postliminary') and Show-Up Time / Reporting Time.