Provides that laws regarding employee entitlements for recovery of unpaid wages and penalties do not apply to wages and penalties lost as a result of an employer's time-rounding policies that comply with federal rounding standards.

Plain English Breakdown

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Provides that laws regarding employee entitlements for recovery of unpaid wages and penalties do not apply to wages and penalties lost as a result of an employer's time-rounding policies that comply with federal rounding standards.

Digest: The Act changes laws with respect to employer time-clock rounding policies.

What This Bill Does

• Digest: The Act changes laws with respect to employer time-clock rounding policies.
• The Act allows such practices to the extent they comply with federal law.
• (Flesch Readability Score: 60.7).
• Provides that laws regarding employee entitlements for recovery of unpaid wages and penalties do not apply to wages and penalties lost as a result of an employer's time-rounding policies that comply with federal rounding standards.

Limits and Unknowns

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Official Summary Text

Digest: The Act changes laws with respect to employer time-clock rounding policies. The Act allows such practices to the extent they comply with federal law. (Flesch Readability Score: 60.7).
Provides that laws regarding employee entitlements for recovery of unpaid wages and penalties do not apply to wages and penalties lost as a result of an employer's time-rounding policies that comply with federal rounding standards.
Relating to: Relating to employer time-rounding policies.
Current location: In Senate Committee

Current Bill Text

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83rd OREGON LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY--2025 Regular Session
Senate Bill 397
Sponsored by Senator GIROD (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 changes laws with respect to employer time-clock rounding policies. The Act
allows such practices to the extent they comply with federal law. (Flesch Readability Score: 60.7).
Provides that laws regarding employee entitlements for recovery of unpaid wages and penalties
do not apply to wages and penalties lost as a result of an employer’s time-rounding policies that
comply with federal rounding standards.
A BILL FOR AN ACT
Relating to employer time-rounding policies.
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 chapter 652.
SECTION 2. (1) ORS 652.120, 652.140, 652.150 and 653.055 do not apply to wages earned and
unpaid for hours worked or work time lost due to the application of an employer’s time-
rounding policies, provided that the employer’s time-rounding policies are in accordance with
the rounding standards established under federal law.
(2) As used in this section, “work time” has the meaning given that term in ORS 653.010.
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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