Oregon Revised Statutes Chapter 656 § 656.027 — Who

Who are subject workers. All workers are subject to this chapter except those nonsubject workers described in the following subsections: (1) A worker employed as a domestic servant in or about a private home. For the purposes of this subsection “domestic servant” means any worker engaged in household domestic service by private employment contract, including, but not limited to, home health workers. (2) A worker employed to do gardening, maintenance, repair, remodeling or similar work in or about the private home of the person employing the worker. (3)(a) A worker whose employment is casual and either: (A) The employment is not in the course of the trade, business or profession of the employer; or (B) The employment is in the course of the trade, business or profession of a nonsubject employer. (b) For the purpose of this subsection, “casual” refers only to employments where the work in any 30-day period, without regard to the number of workers employed, involves a total labor cost of less than $1,000. The total labor cost below which employment is casual under this paragraph must be adjusted annually on July 1 by the same percentage increase, if any, as is made to the average weekly wage, as defined in ORS 656.211. (4) A person for whom a rule of liability for injury or death arising out of and in the course of employment is provided by the laws of the United States. (5) A worker engaged in the transportation in interstate commerce of goods, persons or property for hire by rail, water, aircraft or motor vehicle, and whose employer has no fixed place of business in this state. (6) Firefighter and police employees of any city having a population of more than 200,000 that provides a disability and retirement system by ordinance or charter. (7)(a) Sole proprietors, except those described in paragraph (b) of this subsection. When labor or services are performed under contract, the sole proprietor must qualify as an independent contractor to be a nonsubject worker. (b) Sole proprietors actively licensed under ORS 671.525 or 701.021. When labor or services are performed under contract for remuneration, notwithstanding ORS