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Or. Rev. Stat. § 652.010 (2026)

Declaration of public policy concerning maximum working hours in certain industries

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      652.010 Declaration of public policy concerning maximum working hours in certain industries. (1) It is the public policy of this state that no person shall be hired, nor permitted to work for wages, under any conditions or terms, for longer hours or days of service than is consistent with the person’s health and physical well-being and ability to promote the general welfare by the person’s increasing usefulness as a healthy and intelligent citizen.

      (2) It hereby is declared that the working of any person more than 10 hours in one day in any mill, factory or other manufacturing establishment or the working of any person more than eight hours, exclusive of one hour, more or less, in one day, or more than 48 hours in one workweek, as defined in ORS 652.020, in sawmills, planing mills, shingle mills and logging camps is injurious to the physical health and well-being of such person, and tends to prevent the person from acquiring that degree of intelligence that is necessary to make the person a useful and desirable citizen of the state. [Amended by 2017 c.685 §13]

Notes of Decisions
Cited in 4 cases (1 in the last 5 years), 1995–2023 · leading case: Faverty v. McDonald's Restaurants of Oregon, Inc., 892 P.2d 703 (Or. Ct. App. 1995).
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Faverty v. McDonald's Restaurants of Oregon, Inc., 892 P.2d 703 (Or. Ct. App. 1995). · cites it 10× “261 authorizes the Commissioner of the Bureau of Labor and Industries to prescribe maximum hours of employment, and that plaintiff again has failed to plead a violation of that statute or any regulations promulgated thereunder.”
North Marion Sch. Dist. 15 Ex Rel. Trejo v. Acstar Ins., 169 P.3d 1224 (Or. 2007). · cites it 2× “The first of the three—Oregon's wage and hour statutes, ORS 652.010 to 652.570 [7] —governs the relationship between employers and employees on matters such as the maximum number of working hours, discriminatory wage rates, and when wages must be paid.”
State ex rel. Hoyle v. City of Grants Pass, 443 P.3d 628 (Or. Ct. App. 2019). “" ORS 652.010(1) (emphases added). BOLI further observes that, consistently with that legislative focus on individual workers, the legislature appears to have used "firefighters" to mean "one or more individual firefighters" in another related statute, ORS 652.”
Gessele v. Jack In The Box Inc. (D. Or. 2023). · cites it 2× “Or. Rev. Stat. § 652.010 (1). Oregon Revised Statute § 653.”
— Or. Rev. Stat. § 652.010(1) — 2 cases
Faverty v. McDonald's Restaurants of Oregon, Inc., 892 P.2d 703 (Or. Ct. App. 1995). “261 authorizes the Commissioner of the Bureau of Labor and Industries to prescribe maximum hours of employment, and that plaintiff again has failed to plead a violation of that statute or any regulations promulgated thereunder.”
State ex rel. Hoyle v. City of Grants Pass, 443 P.3d 628 (Or. Ct. App. 2019). “" ORS 652.010(1) (emphases added). BOLI further observes that, consistently with that legislative focus on individual workers, the legislature appears to have used "firefighters" to mean "one or more individual firefighters" in another related statute, ORS 652.”
— Or. Rev. Stat. § 652.010(2) — 1 case
Faverty v. McDonald's Restaurants of Oregon, Inc., 892 P.2d 703 (Or. Ct. App. 1995). “261 authorizes the Commissioner of the Bureau of Labor and Industries to prescribe maximum hours of employment, and that plaintiff again has failed to plead a violation of that statute or any regulations promulgated thereunder.”
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