Increase in Hours for Same Pay Is Not a "Reduction in Pay"

The Oregon Court of Appeals affirmed today a decision of the Fair Dismissal Appeals Board ("FDAB") in a case brought by a school district administrator. The District had increased the administrators number of hours, but had not increased his pay. In response, the administrator challenged the workload increase as a de facto "reduction in pay" under the Fair Dismissal Appeals Statute (which protects Oregon public school teachers and administrators from certain adverse job actions). The FDAB and the Court both held that even though effectively the employee was working for less money for each hour actually worked, that this was not a "reduction in pay" under the FDAB statute.