As used in ORS 662.205 to 662.225:

1. (1) “Employee” means any individual who performs services for wages or salary.
2. (2) “Employer” means any person, partnership, firm, corporation, association or other entity, or any agent thereof, that employs an individual to perform services for a wage or salary.
3. (3) “For the duration of a strike or lockout” includes that period of time beginning one month before initiation of a strike or lockout and ending one month after termination of the strike or lockout.
4. (4) “Lockout” means any refusal by an employer to permit employees to work as a result of a dispute with such employees affecting wages, hours or other terms or conditions of their employment.
5. (5) “Professional strikebreaker” means a person who currently offers to replace an employee involved in a strike or lockout, for the duration of that strike or lockout; and who, within the preceding five-year period, has on two or more previous occasions offered to replace an employee involved in a strike or lockout, for the duration of that strike or lockout. However, professional strikebreaker does not include any person who is the owner of a partnership, firm, corporation, association or other entity or the family of the owner or any person designated as supervisory personnel. As used in this section, owner includes a producer of agricultural commodities or a member of a cooperative association.
6. (6) “Strike” means any concerted act of employees in a lawful refusal under applicable state or federal law to perform work or services for an employer.

[1975 c.645 §1; 1987 c.158 §131]