Oregon pay frequency: regular payday within 35 days.
Oregon ORS 652.120 requires employers to establish regular paydays no more than 35 days apart. Most employers run weekly, biweekly, or semimonthly. Monthly pay is permitted as long as the 35-day maximum is met (which means workers paid on the 1st cannot wait until the 5th of the next month). Employers cannot withhold or delay paychecks as discipline or to recover company property.
Regular Payday Cadence
Enforces 35-day maximum between paydays. Blocks discipline-as-pay-delay. Routes by employer-selected cadence.
What those rules do at payroll cycle setup.
The hero card configuration: Block on excessive gap, Avoid on discipline-as-delay.
When the configured pay cadence produces a gap exceeding 35 days between paydays (e.g., monthly on day 1 paying for Feb-Mar work delivered April 5), the configuration is blocked.
Oregon BOLI is explicit: pay cannot be withheld or delayed as a form of discipline or as leverage to recover company property. Attempts to flag a worker's pay for hold are surfaced as Avoid.
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35-day maximum, regular cadence, no discipline-by-delay.
Oregon's pay frequency rule is structured around regularity and predictability. Workers must be able to plan around a known paycheck schedule.
Cadence options
Most Oregon employers use weekly (52 paydays/year), biweekly (26), or semimonthly (24) pay. Monthly pay is permitted as long as the 35-day rule is satisfied — which is doable but tight: monthly pay on the 1st covering work through the prior month-end means the gap between work and pay is acceptable, but pay on the 5th for prior-month work creates a 35+ day gap for early-month work.
No discipline-by-delay
Oregon BOLI is explicit and aggressive on this point: paychecks cannot be withheld, delayed, or held as leverage to discipline workers, recover company property, or compel any other action. The employer must pay wages when due and pursue separate remedies for property return, damage claims, or disputed amounts.
Teambridge configures cadence and prevents discipline-by-delay.
Most Oregon employers run on a clean cadence; the operational risks are configuration drift and one-off discipline-by-delay attempts.
35-day max validated.
When a payroll cycle is configured, Teambridge validates that the maximum gap between paydays does not exceed 35 days for any work period.
Discipline-by-delay flagged.
If a manager attempts to mark a worker's pay for hold or delay, Teambridge surfaces the prohibition and rejects the hold. Disputes must be handled separately from payroll.
First payday within 35 days of hire.
Newly-hired workers must receive their first paycheck within 35 days of starting work. Teambridge tracks first-paycheck timing for new hires and surfaces any approaching deadline.
Repeat lateness flagged for BOLI bond risk.
If an employer repeatedly misses scheduled paydays by 5+ days, Teambridge surfaces the cumulative pattern and the BOLI bond risk.
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