Young v. State of Oregon

In this case, we must determine whether a wage and hour statute, former ORS 279.340(1) (1995), renumbered as ORS 653.268(1) (2005), required the state to pay “white-collar employees” 1 one and one-half times their “regular rate” for overtime or whether that statute instead permitted the state to pay those employees one-half their regular rate for overtime (known as a “fluctuating hours” rate, which we explain below). 2 Plaintiffs are state white-collar employees whom the state customarily has treated as exempt from overtime compensation. However, due to a change in statutory law, plaintiffs…