diff --git a/src/lib/checkbox/checkbox.spec.ts b/src/lib/checkbox/checkbox.spec.ts
index 0fb39a761746..595653355c39 100644
--- a/src/lib/checkbox/checkbox.spec.ts
+++ b/src/lib/checkbox/checkbox.spec.ts
@@ -887,12 +887,12 @@ class CheckboxWithFormDirectives {
 }
 
 /** Simple test component with multiple checkboxes. */
-@Component(({
+@Component({
   template: `
     <md-checkbox>Option 1</md-checkbox>
     <md-checkbox>Option 2</md-checkbox>
   `
-}))
+})
 class MultipleCheckboxes { }
 
 
diff --git a/tools/tslint-rules/onPushChangeDetectionRule.js b/tools/tslint-rules/onPushChangeDetectionRule.js
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..50ca46a63450
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tools/tslint-rules/onPushChangeDetectionRule.js
@@ -0,0 +1,46 @@
+const Lint = require('tslint');
+const ERROR_MESSAGE = 'Components must use OnPush change detection.';
+
+/**
+ * Rule that enforces that OnPush change detection is used on all @Component declarations.
+ * Files can be whitelisted via `"on-push-change-detection": [true, "\.spec\.ts$"]`.
+ */
+class Rule extends Lint.Rules.AbstractRule {
+  apply(file) {
+    return this.applyWithWalker(new Walker(file, this.getOptions()));
+  }
+}
+
+class Walker extends Lint.RuleWalker {
+  constructor(file, options) {
+    super(...arguments);
+
+    // Whitelist with regular expressions to use when determining which files to lint.
+    const whitelist = options.ruleArguments;
+
+    // Whether the file should be checked at all.
+    this._enabled = !whitelist.length || whitelist.some(p => new RegExp(p).test(file.fileName));
+  }
+
+  visitClassDeclaration(node) {
+    if (!this._enabled || !node.decorators) return;
+
+    node.decorators
+      .map(decorator => decorator.expression)
+      .filter(expression => expression.expression.getText() === 'Component')
+      .filter(expression => expression.arguments.length && expression.arguments[0].properties)
+      .forEach(expression => {
+        const hasOnPushChangeDetection = expression.arguments[0].properties.some(prop => {
+          const value = prop.initializer.getText();
+          return prop.name.getText() === 'changeDetection' && value.endsWith('.OnPush');
+        });
+
+        if (!hasOnPushChangeDetection) {
+          this.addFailureAtNode(expression.parent, ERROR_MESSAGE);
+        }
+      });
+  }
+
+}
+
+exports.Rule = Rule;
diff --git a/tslint.json b/tslint.json
index 2c9ee2c55180..120148206525 100644
--- a/tslint.json
+++ b/tslint.json
@@ -35,6 +35,10 @@
       "src/lib",
       "src/cdk"
     ],
+    "on-push-change-detection": [
+      true,
+      "(lib|cdk)\/((?!spec.ts).)*.ts$"
+    ],
     "one-line": [
       true,
       "check-catch",