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HB2787 • 2025

Requires employers to compensate employees for time spent on call or on standby.

Requires employers to compensate employees for time spent on call or on standby.

Labor
Passed Legislature

This bill passed both chambers and reached final enrollment, even if later executive action is not shown here.

Sponsor
Representative Nelson, Representative Gamba,, Senator Manning Jr,
Last action
2025-06-27
Official status
In House Committee
Effective date
Not listed

Plain English Breakdown

Using official source text because the generated explanation was unavailable or could not be confirmed against the official bill text.

Requires employers to compensate employees for time spent on call or on standby.

Digest: The Act requires employers to pay employees for time spent on call or on standby.

What This Bill Does

  • Digest: The Act requires employers to pay employees for time spent on call or on standby.
  • (Flesch Readability Score: 73.1).
  • Requires employers to compensate employees for time spent on call or on standby.
  • Requires employers to post work schedules at least 14 days in advance, including all scheduled on-call and standby shifts.

Limits and Unknowns

  • This entry is temporarily using official source text because the generated explanation could not be confirmed against the official bill text during the last sync.

Bill History

  1. 2025-06-27 House

    In committee upon adjournment.

  2. 2025-01-17 House

    Referred to Labor and Workplace Standards.

  3. 2025-01-13 House

    First reading. Referred to Speaker's desk.

Official Summary Text

Digest: The Act requires employers to pay employees for time spent on call or on standby. (Flesch Readability Score: 73.1).
Requires employers to compensate employees for time spent on call or on standby. Requires employers to post work schedules at least 14 days in advance, including all scheduled on-call and standby shifts.
Relating to: Relating to requirements concerning on-call shifts.
Current location: In House Committee

Current Bill Text

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83rd OREGON LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY--2025 Regular Session
House Bill 2787
Sponsored by Representative NELSON; Senator MANNING JR (Presession filed.)
SUMMARY
The following summary is not prepared by the sponsors of the measure and is not a part of the body thereof subject
to consideration by the Legislative Assembly. It is an editor’s brief statement of the essential features of the
measure as introduced. The statement includes a measure digest written in compliance with applicable readability
standards.
Digest: The Act requires employers to pay employees for time spent on call or on standby.
(Flesch Readability Score: 73.1).
Requires employers to compensate employees for time spent on call or on standby. Requires
employers to post work schedules at least 14 days in advance, including all scheduled on-call and
standby shifts.
A BILL FOR AN ACT
Relating to requirements concerning on-call shifts.
Be It Enacted by the People of the State of Oregon:
SECTION 1.
Section 2 of this 2025 Act is added to and made a part of ORS 653.010 to
653.261.
SECTION 2. (1) Except as otherwise provided in ORS 653.412 to 653.485, an employer shall:
(a) Compensate an employee for time spent on call or on standby when the employee is
required to be at the premises of the employer or available to report to work within 90
minutes after being contacted by the employer such that the employee is unable to use the
scheduled hours effectively for the employee’s personal purposes, regardless of whether the
employee is asked by the employer to perform work.
(b) Pay an employee scheduled for an on-call shift or standby shift described in paragraph
(a) of this subsection at least the federal minimum wage rate.
(c) Post employee work schedules at least 14 days in advance that include all work shifts
and on-call or standby shifts for the period.
(2) A work schedule described under this section:
(a) May not be changed without the voluntary consent of the employee; and
(b) Must be posted in a conspicuous and accessible location.
(3) The requirements of this section apply to nonexempt employees under the federal Fair
Labor Standards Act.
NOTE: Matter in boldfaced type in an amended section is new; matter [ italic and bracketed] is existing law to be omitted.
New sections are in boldfaced type.
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