Internship Agreement
(Learning Contract) (OR)

Summary

This Internship Agreement (Learning Contract) (OR) creates an Oregon unpaid internship and helps ensure unpaid interns are not classified as employees entitled to compensation. This Internship Agreement (Learning Contract) (OR) is intended for private employers. It includes practical guidance, drafting notes, and an optional clause. Its language complies with Oregon and federal law. It does not differ from the non-jurisdictional Internship Agreement (Learning Contract), except that it contains practical guidance, drafting notes, alternate clauses, and optional clauses that address issues under both Oregon and federal law. This template also serves as evidence that the relationship qualifies as a true internship that an employer may exempt from applicable wage and hour laws. For information on internships, see Internship Agreements: Major Drafting and Legal Issues. For more information on interns in Oregon, see Wage and Hour (OR) — Interns. For state-specific internship agreement templates, see the Other Employment-Related Contracts column of the Employment Contracts State Expert Forms Chart and the Independent Contractors and Interns column of the Wage and Hour State Expert Forms Chart.