OR · 4 rules · reviewed 2026-05
Oregon scheduling laws
Oregon was the first state to pass a statewide predictive scheduling law — the Fair Work Week Act (2017) — covering retail, hospitality, and food service employers with 500+ employees globally. 14-day advance notice and predictability pay are the centerpieces.
This is a reference, not legal advice. Every rule below links to its primary source — a statute, an ordinance, or the enforcing agency — so you can read the law rather than a summary of a summary. Consult counsel before relying on any of it.
2 of these 4 rules apply regardless of industry; 2 bind only certain sectors, and each one says which. Most US predictive-scheduling law is municipal, so where a rule comes from a city ordinance its name says so — a company can easily have one location covered and two not.
Fair Work Week Act — 14-day advance notice
ORS §653.412Covered employers (retail, hospitality, food service with 500+ global employees) must provide written work schedules at least 14 days in advance.
Applies to:RestaurantsRetail
In Weekwright: Publish-week tooling locks the schedule and notifies the team. Audit log captures every post-publish change for predictability-pay calculation.
Predictability pay
ORS §653.450Schedule changes within 14 days trigger 'predictability pay' — typically 1 hour at the regular rate added per change, with higher amounts for shifts cancelled with less than 24 hours notice.
Applies to:RestaurantsRetail
In Weekwright: Every shift create / move / delete inside the 14-day window is audit-logged with timestamp + actor + before/after state. Compute liability from the log instead of memory.
Right to rest between shifts
ORS §653.455Employees can decline shifts scheduled less than 10 hours after a previous shift's end. Employers must pay 1.5x for hours worked during the 10-hour window if the employee consents.
In Weekwright: MIN_REST_HOURS_BETWEEN_SHIFTS preset to 10 enforces it. Set to BLOCKING if your team is risk-averse, WARNING if you handle the premium manually.
Right to request schedule input
ORS §653.428Employees can request preferred locations, hours, and shift times. The employer must consider the request in good faith.
In Weekwright: Per-member availability captures preferred shifts (PREFERRED), unavailable windows, and time-off — the AI drafts honor all three when proposing a week.
Primary sources
Read the law itself. These are the statutes, ordinances and agencies the rules above are taken from.
Oregon by industry
The same statutes read for one vertical, with the scheduling patterns that vertical actually runs.
Other states
Again, because it matters: this is not legal advice. It is a reading aid over primary sources, maintained by a software company rather than a law firm. It surfaces obvious gaps so you can act on them — it does not tell you whether a specific ordinance applies to your specific business. Consult counsel for that. Found something out of date? hello@weekwright.com — a correction to a primary source is welcome from anyone, customer or not.
Rules your Oregon schedule actually checks.
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