Oregon Administrative Rules
Chapter 839 - BUREAU OF LABOR AND INDUSTRIES
Division 20 - RULES REGULATING MINIMUM WAGE, OVERTIME AND WORKING CONDITIONS
Section 839-020-0005 - Employees Engaged in Administrative, Executive, Professional, or Outside Sales Work, Defining the Terms
Universal Citation: OR Admin Rules 839-020-0005
Current through Register Vol. 63, No. 9, September 1, 2024
As used in ORS 653.010 to 653.261 and in these rules, unless the context requires otherwise:
(1) "Executive Employee" means any employee:
(a) Whose primary duty consists of the
management of the enterprise in which the employee is employed or of a
customarily recognized department or subdivision thereof. The foregoing
language of this paragraph prescribing the primary duty does not apply in the
case of an employee who is in sole charge of an independent establishment or a
physically separated branch establishment or who owns at least 20 percent
interest in the enterprise in which the employee is employed; and
(b) Who customarily and regularly directs the
work of two or more other employees therein; and
(c) Who has the authority to hire or fire
other employees or whose suggestions and recommendations as to the hiring or
firing and as to the advancement and promotion of any other change of status of
other employees will be given particular weight; and
(d) Who customarily and regularly exercises
discretionary powers; and
(e) Who
earns a salary and is paid on a salary basis pursuant to ORS
653.025 exclusive of board,
lodging, or other facilities.
(2) "Administrative Employee" means any employee:
(a) Whose primary duty consists of
either:
(A) The performance of office or
non-manual work directly related to management policies or general business
operations of the employee's employer or the employer's customers; or
(B) The performance of functions in the
administration of a school system, or educational establishment or institution,
or of a department or subdivision thereof, in work directly related to the
academic instruction or training carried on therein; and
(b) Who customarily and regularly exercises
discretion and independent judgment; and
(c) Who regularly and directly assists a
proprietor, or an employee employed in a bona fide executive or administrative
capacity; or
(A) Who performs under only
general supervision work along specialized or technical lines requiring special
training, experience, or knowledge, or;
(B) Who executes under only general
supervision special assignments and tasks; and
(d) Who earns a salary and is paid on a
salary basis pursuant to ORS
653.025 exclusive of board,
lodging, or other facilities.
(3) "Professional Employee" means any employee:
(a) Whose primary duty consists of
the performance of:
(A) Work requiring
knowledge of an advanced type in a field of science or learning customarily
acquired by a prolonged course of specialized intellectual instruction and
study, as distinguished from a general academic education and from an
apprenticeship, and from training in the performance of routine mental, manual,
or physical processes; or
(B) Work
that is original and creative in character in a recognized field of artistic
endeavor (as opposed to work which can be produced by a person endowed with
general manual or intellectual ability and training), and the result of which
depends primarily on the invention, imagination, or talent of the employee;
or
(C) Teaching, tutoring,
instructing, or lecturing in the activity of imparting knowledge and who is
employed and engaged in this activity as a teacher in the school system or
educational establishment or institution by which the employee is employed;
and
(b) Whose work
requires the consistent exercise of discretion and judgment in its performance;
and
(c) Whose work is predominantly
intellectual and varied in character (as opposed to routine mental, manual,
mechanical, or physical work) and is of such character that the output produced
or the result accomplished cannot be standardized in relation to a given period
of time; and
(d) Who earns a salary
and is paid on a salary basis pursuant to ORS
653.025 exclusive of board,
lodging, or other facilities.
(4) "Outside Sales Person" means any employee:
(a) Who is employed for the purpose
of and who is customarily and regularly engaged away from the employer's place
or places of business in:
(A) Making sales;
or
(B) Obtaining orders or
contracts for services or for the use of facilities for which a consideration
will be paid by the client or customer; and
(b) Whose hours of work spent engaged in
activities other than those activities described in paragraph (a)(A) or (B) of
this section, do not exceed 30 percent of the hours worked in the workweek by
non-exempt employees of the employer: Provided, that work performed incidental
to and in conjunction with the employee's own outside sales or solicitations,
including incidental deliveries and collections, will not be regarded as
non-exempt work.
(5) "Independent Judgment and Discretion" means the selection of a course of action from a number of possible alternatives after consideration of each, made freely without direction or supervision with respect to matters of significance. It does not include skill exercised in the application of prescribed procedures.
Stat. Auth.: ORS 183 & ORS 653
Stats. Implemented: ORS 653.010 -- ORS 653.261
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