This Law Firm Publication by Stoel Rives LLP discusses the Oregon Court of Appeals' recent decision in Compressed Pattern LLC v. Employment Department, clarifying the "maintain a separate business location" prong of the statutory test for independent contractor status applicable to Oregon's unemployment and workers' compensation laws. Under the test, an individual may be an independent contractor if he maintains a separate business location from the employer and otherwise satisfies the test. In Compressed Pattern, the court found an architect-intern who performed drafting work for a design company was the company's employee and not an independent contractor, in part because he performed the drafting work at the offices of an architectual firm that had laid him off, rather than using space he paid for himself.