Oregon Labor Compliance
To remain compliant with the labor requirements for restaurants, employers in Oregon must take certain measures to ensure they are scheduling in a compliant manner.
Through 7shifts, receive automatic warnings for applicable exceptions while scheduling and have any costs incurred included in your labor budget. In this article, you'll learn how to enable Oregon compliance, understand the types of labor exceptions, and run reports to help you stay compliant with state regulations.
Prerequisites
⚠️ Access to this feature may require an upgrade from your current plan.
⚠️ The Labor Exceptions report is only available with 7punches or a POS labor integration.
Enable Labor Compliance
- Log in as an Admin on the web app.
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In the left navigation bar, head to Settings (or, hover over your profile photo) > Company Settings.
Tip: Setting your Advanced Labor Rules here at the Company level will apply these settings to your entire Company (all locations) by default.
If you need to set or customize these compliance options for specific locations, you can do so by navigating to the Locations settings for the relevant location and modifying the Labor & Compliance section there.
Learn how to set Location-Level Settings here: Labor & Compliance Settings
- Select the Labor & Compliance tab.
- Under Jurisdiction, select Oregon.
- Review and set your overtime, break, custom break, and wages & pay settings.
- Under the Advanced Labor section, Oregon compliance settings will automatically populate as per the Jurisdiction set earlier. Checkmark the options according to your preferences.
- Be sure to hit Save to complete these changes!
- To restore default Oregon settings (including Overtime rules), click Re-sync labor & compliance settings:
Types of Exceptions
Right to Rest
When an employee works 2 consecutive days with less than 10 hours rest overnight between shifts, they are owed 1.5x their regular rate of pay. If enabled, the employee's pay will be automatically adjusted in your labor reports.
Predictive Scheduling
Employers must provide at least 14 days' notice for work schedules. If an employer changes a published schedule within that 14-day window, "Predictability Pay" may be required and the following rules apply:
Changes that will incur an Exception warning:
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Changes adding hours or shifting time: The employee is owed one hour of pay at their regular rate if the employer:
Adds more than 30 minutes of work to a shift.
Changes the date, start time, or end time with no loss of total hours.
Adds an additional work shift or an on-call shift.
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Changes resulting in lost hours: The employee is owed 50% (0.5x) of their regular rate of pay for each hour not worked if the employer:
Subtracts hours from a shift (before or after the employee reports for duty).
Changes the date, start time, or end time resulting in a loss of hours.
Cancels a scheduled shift.
Exemptions
Predictability Pay is not required in the following scenarios:
Minor deviations: If the employer changes the start or end time of a shift by 30 minutes or less.
Employee consent: If the employee voluntarily requests or consents to work the additional or changed hours (e.g., via a shift swap or picking up an open shift).
Important: Fair Workweek Oregon is only required for companies with 500 or more employees worldwide in retail, hospitality, and food service. Only enable the exception if your company qualifies.
For more details, please review Oregon's Bureau of Labor & Industries website.
View Exception Warnings
Exception warning will appear for Admins and Managers/Assistant Managers in the following areas:
To avoid/reduce exceptions, you will be warned about potential exceptions as you make changes to your schedule. Each time you create or make a change to a shift that causes an exception, a warning modal will appear indicating the type of exception and the associated cost.
Before publishing a schedule, if there are labor exceptions that will be incurred, you will see a summary showing the number of exceptions, the total cost, and details of each exception. Once published, the exceptions will be recorded in the report.
You will also see a warning when assigning shifts through the Shift Pool that could cause an exception:
On the Time Clocking page as an exception warning:
On a Punch Overview: