For the purposes of clarifying terms used in ORS 656.027:

1. (1) “Casual” refers only to employments where the work in any 30-day period, without regard to the number of workers employed, involves a total labor cost lower than the dollar amount published in Bulletin 387.
2. (2) “Home health worker” does not include a worker employed by a home health agency, as defined in ORS 443.014, or in-home care agency, as defined in OAR 333-536-0005.

3. (3) “Person performing foster parent or adult foster care duties” means:

   1. (a) A person performing foster parent duties, including, but not limited to:

      1. (A) Any person certified as a foster parent by the Oregon Department of Human Services under ORS chapter 418; or
      2. (B) Any person employed by a certified foster parent in the operation of a foster home as defined in ORS chapter 418; or

   2. (b) A person performing adult foster care duties, including, but not limited to:

      1. (A) Any person operating an adult foster home licensed under ORS 443.705 to 443.825; or
      2. (B) Any person employed by the operator to perform services that assist the residents of the adult foster home.
   3. (c) “Adult foster home,” as used in subsection (b), means any family home or facility, licensed under ORS 443.705 to 443.825, in which room, board, and 24-hour care services are provided, for compensation, to five or fewer adults who are not related to the operator by blood or marriage.

4. (4) “Private employment contract” means a contract under which a worker is directly employed by the owner of the private home. As used in this section, “owner of the private home” means:

   1. (a) Any person who occupies and owns, leases, or rents the private home;
   2. (b) Any person related by blood, marriage, or Oregon registered domestic partnership to a person described under subsection (a); or
   3. (c) Any person who, by direction of a person described under subsection (a), or by order of a court, has become responsible for managing the household affairs of that person.

Statutory/Other Authority

ORS 656.726(4)

Statutes/Other Implemented

ORS 656.027

History

WCD 18-2021, amend filed 12/13/2021, effective 01/01/2022
WCD 10-2019, amend filed 12/17/2019, effective 01/01/2020
WCD 20-2018, amend filed 11/15/2018, effective 01/01/2019
WCD 5-2016, f. 11-28-16, cert. ef. 1-1-17
WCD 6-2012, f. 10-4-12, cert. ef. 1-1-13
WCD 1-2008, f. 6-13-08, cert. ef. 7-1-08
WCD 5-2001, f. 6-22-01, cert. ef. 7-1-01
WCD 1-1998, f. 1-9-98, cert. ef. 1-23-98
WCD 3-1992, f. 1-10-92, cert. ef. 2-1-92
WCD 7-1991(Temp), f. 10-4-91, cert. ef. 10-7-91