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Or. Rev. Stat. § 652.145

Payment of wages for seasonal farmworkers

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      652.145 Payment of wages for seasonal farmworkers. (1) Notwithstanding ORS 652.140, if an employee has worked for an employer as a seasonal farmworker, whenever the employment terminates, all wages earned and unpaid become due and payable immediately except:

      (a) Wages are due and payable by noon on the day after termination of the employment of the seasonal farmworker if:

      (A) The termination occurs at the end of the harvest season;

      (B) The employer is a farmworker camp operator described in ORS 658.715 (1)(b) or (c); and

      (C) The farmworker is provided housing that complies with ORS 658.705 to 658.850 at no cost to the worker from the termination of work until wages due are paid.

      (b) If the employee quits without giving the employer at least 48 hours’ notice, wages earned and unpaid are due and payable within 48 hours after the employee has quit, or at the next regularly scheduled payday after the employee has quit, whichever event first occurs.

      (2) As used in this section, “seasonal farmworker” means an individual who, for an agreed remuneration or rate of pay, performs temporary labor for another in the production of farm products or in the planting, cultivating or harvesting of seasonal agricultural crops or in the forestation or reforestation of lands including, but not limited to, the planting, transplanting, tubing, precommercial thinning and thinning of trees and seedlings, the clearing, piling and disposal of brush and slash and other related activities. [1991 c.966 §4; 2001 c.613 §17; 2013 c.347 §1]

Notes of Decisions
Cited in 2 cases (1 in the last 5 years), 2016–2021 · leading case: Migis v. Autozone, Inc.
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Migis v. Autozone, Inc. (2016) orctapp “140 and ORS 652.145 (¿.e., “willfully fails to pay”) if part of that clause (“whose employment ceases”) is not applicable, plaintiff has not put forth a principle of statutory construction for why that must be so.”
Hernandez v. Siri and Son Farms (2021) ord · cites it 4× “§ 1981 ; and Oregon state law, ORS §§ 652.145, 652.150. Compl. ¶¶ 49–57, ECF No.”
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Hernandez v. Siri and Son Farms (2021) ord “§ 1981 ; and Oregon state law, ORS §§ 652.145, 652.150. Compl. ¶¶ 49–57, ECF No.”
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