{"data":{"id":"us-or/ors-342.626","jurisdiction":"us-or","citation":"ORS 342.626","heading":"Work hour requirements for classified school employees who provide significant special education support.","body":"(1) As used in this section:\n      (a) “Classified school employee” includes all employees of a school district except those for whom a teaching or administrative license is required as a basis for employment in a school district.\n      (b) “Individualized education program” has the meaning given that term in ORS 343.035.\n      (c) “School district” means:\n      (A) A common school district or a union high school district.\n      (B) An education service district.\n      (2) Except as provided in subsection (3) of this section, a school district that employs classified school employees who provide significant special education support, as determined under subsection (4) of this section, may not establish, for any purpose, a policy that requires the work day hours of a classified school employee to be fewer than five hours per work day on regular school days when schools are normally in operation and students are present.\n      (3)(a) A school district may reduce the work day hours of a classified school employee to fewer than five hours per work day if the reduction in hours is at the written request of the employee.\n      (b) A school district may not coerce or require, as a condition of employment or continuation of employment, a classified school employee to make a request for a reduction in work day hours.\n      (4) For the purpose of this section, a classified school employee provides significant special education support if 75 percent or more of the employee’s student caseload consists of students who have an individualized education program.","path":["09 - Education and Culture","30. Education and Culture","Chapter 342 — Teachers and Other School Personnel"],"source_url":"https://www.oregonlegislature.gov/bills_laws/ors/ors342.html","current_through":"2025 Edition","vintage":"","retrieved_at":"2026-09-03T23:50:13Z","sha256":"155b5d07c1fc2ef0b1a1cd65fe3397ec3b31de6425090bcd7ce6f5363cc25967","source_id":"us-or","stale":false,"prev":"us-or/ors-342.625","next":"us-or/ors-342.630"},"notice":"GroundRules: Original legal text. Not legal advice."}