Oregon requires a fired or laid-off employee's wages by the end of the next business day after discharge.
Law: ORS 652.140, 652.150 · Rules checked October 2026
If you quit with at least 48 hours' notice, your check is due on your last day. Without that notice: within five business days or by the next regular payday, whichever is sooner.
Oregon's penalty wages run eight hours of pay for each day the final check is late, up to 30 days (ORS 652.150) — and they keep running until the check is paid, the claim is filed, or the cap is hit.
Your state lets the employer's own policy decide. If the handbook or your offer letter promises payout of accrued vacation — or the company has a practice of paying it — that promise is enforceable. If the policy says unused vacation is forfeited at separation, the state will generally hold you to it.
The free claim goes to Oregon Bureau of Labor and Industries. It costs nothing and you do not need a lawyer; what you need is the amount computed, the demand already sent where your state rewards one, and the file assembled.
Filing window: set by state law and shorter than people expect — file within weeks, not months.
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General information from the published statute — not legal advice. Penalty figures elsewhere on this site are statutory maximums, with willfulness conditions named where the statute names them.