Or. Admin. R. 839-005-0011 - Constructive Discharge from Employment

Constructive discharge occurs when an individual leaves employment because of unlawful discrimination. The elements of a constructive discharge are:

(1) The employer intentionally created or intentionally maintained discriminatory working conditions related to the individual's protected class status;

(2) The working conditions were so intolerable that a reasonable person in the individual's circumstances would have resigned because of them;

(3) The employer desired to cause the individual to leave employment as a result of those working conditions, or knew or should have known that the individual was certain, or substantially certain, to leave employment as a result of the working conditions; and

(4) The individual left employment as a result of the working conditions.

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Or. Admin. R. 839-005-0011

BLI 19-2000, f. & cert. ef. 9-15-00; BLI 10-2002, f. & cert. ef. 5-17-02; Renumbered from 839-005-0035, BLI 7-2010, f. & cert. ef. 2-24-10; BLI 14-2013, f. & cert. ef. 12-30-13; BLI 11-2015, f. & cert. ef. 8/4/2015

Stat. Auth.: ORS 659A.805

Stats. Implemented: ORS 659A