State Ex Rel. Nilsen v. Oregon State Motor Ass'n

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• “wages” means “all earned compensation contracted to be paid by the employer for the employee’s personal service regardless of the nature of such compensation” (emphasis in original)
• under ORS 652.140(1) and ORS 652.150(1), the obligation to pay penalty wages arises for late payment of “wages,” which are all earned compensation that the employer owes for the employee’s personal services
• statute to be construed to promote legislative policy and objectives
• vacation pay, when nondiscretionary, is “wages”
• paid vacation benefits are wages

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).