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This state employment law section provides a range of state employment laws and posters. For your convenience, the poster section features both downloadable state and federal posters. Employment laws will typically vary from state to state. For further information or for individual issues your company may be experiencing, it is always prudent to contact your state labor department or an employment law attorney knowledgeable in your state employment laws. Please view the left-hand navigation for the various state laws covered in this section.
The Bureau of Labor and Industries has announced that the state minimum wage will rise to $8.80 per hour, effective January 1, 2012. Revised minimum wage posters reflecting the new rate are available in English and Spanish.
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On June 17, 2011, Governor Kitzhaber signed SB 99 into law to create the Oregon Health Insurance Exchange, to administer a health insurance exchange in accordance with the federal Affordable Care Act to make qualified health plans available to individuals and groups throughout the state. Under the law, people will be able to sign up for the exchange in October 2013, for coverage to start in 2014.
Oregon has enacted Senate Bill 301, which connects the state to most provisions of federal law for tax year 2010, including the exemption of imputed income related to the extension of health insurance coverage provided to adult children (as allowed by the Affordable Care Act). This means that employers providing health insurance to employees and their adult dependents to age 27 will not have to include the imputed cost of the health insurance in total gross wages on form W-2. Click here for more.