Oregon Labor Compliance
Oregon labor compliance settings allow 7shifts to track state-specific regulations such as predictive scheduling and right to rest. When these settings are enabled, 7shifts generates automatic warnings for applicable exceptions during scheduling and includes any incurred costs in labor budgets.
Things to know
- Access to Oregon labor compliance features may require an upgrade from your current plan.
- The Labor Exceptions report is only available for accounts using 7punches or a POS labor integration.
- Fair Workweek Oregon is only required for companies with 500 or more employees worldwide in the retail, hospitality, and food service industries. Only enable the exceptions if your company qualifies.
Enable Oregon labor compliance
Admins can enable compliance settings at the company level to apply them to 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
- Log in to the 7shifts web app as an Admin.
- Navigate to Settings > Company Settings.
- Select the Labor & Compliance tab.
- Locate the Jurisdiction dropdown menu and select Oregon.
- Review and configure the overtime, break, and wage settings.
- Scroll to the Advanced Labor section where Oregon-specific rules populate automatically.
- Select the checkboxes for the compliance options you want to enable.
- Select Save to apply the changes.
Oregon labor exception types
Oregon law requires specific compensation for scheduling changes and rest periods. When enabled, 7shifts identifies the following exception types.
Right to Rest
Right to Rest exceptions occur when an employee works two consecutive days with less than 10 hours of rest between shifts. Affected employees are owed 1.5x their regular rate of pay for the following shift. 7shifts automatically adjusts the employee's pay in labor reports when this rule is triggered.
Predictive Scheduling
Employers must provide at least 14 days of notice for work schedules. Changes made to a published schedule within this 14-day window may require "Predictability Pay."
- Changes adding hours: Employees are owed one hour of regular pay if the employer adds more than 30 minutes to a shift, adds a new shift, or changes shift times with no loss of total hours.
- Changes resulting in lost hours: Employees are owed 50% of their regular rate for each hour not worked if the employer subtracts hours, cancels a shift, or changes shift times resulting in a loss of hours.
- Exemptions: Predictability pay is not required for deviations of 30 minutes or less or if an employee voluntarily requests a change, such as 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 labor exception warnings
Exception warnings appear for Admins and Managers across several areas of 7shifts to help reduce labor costs.
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: