Wage Fairness to Oregon Workers

Your Silent Pay Cut: Wellstone’s Efforts to Restore Wage Fairness to Oregon Workers. When a worker sustains an on-the-job injury, workers’ compensation benefits hopefully bridge the financial gap between the injury and getting back to work. Make no mistake though. Workers’ compensation benefits do not come close to replacing a full paycheck. Under Oregon law, workers receive just two-thirds of their Average Weekly Wage (“AWW”).