On March 27, Oregon Gov. Tina Kotek signed into law House Bill 4127, which will impose notice and recordkeeping requirements on covered employers of certain warehouse workers when using quotas to measure worker productivity. The law takes effect Jan. 1, 2025.
The law applies to employers that employ or exercise control over the wages, hours, or working conditions of people employed at a warehouse distribution center if they have 100 or more nonexempt employees at a single warehouse distribution center or 1,000 or more nonexempt employees at one or more warehouse distribution centers in Oregon.
The term “warehouse distribution center” includes establishments engaging in activities falling under specific North American Industry Classification System (NAICS) codes for warehousing and storage; merchant wholesale (durable and nondurable goods); and retailing using electronic shopping and mail-order houses.
For purposes of this law, “warehouse distribution center” does not include establishments engaging in services relating to certain NAICS codes for farm product warehousing and storage; refrigerated warehousing and storage; merchant wholesale of professional medical, dental, and hospital equipment and supplies; merchant wholesale of drugs and druggists’ sundries; couriers and express delivery services; and merchant wholesale of carbonated beverages, wine and distilled alcoholic beverages, or beer and ale.
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