By Dunn, Carney, Allen, Higgins & Tongue Oregon Employers Need to Prepare for New “Ban the Box” Law Effective January 1, 2016, Oregon will become the latest state to limit the ability of employers to ask job applicants about prior criminal histories. HB 3025, signed by Gov. Kate Brown in […]

By NFIB, Despite job growth, the unemployment rate continues to surpass the national average. Oregon’s unemployment rate jumped from 5.5 to 5.9 percent in July, according to a recent state report. While below the 7.0 unemployment rate from a year ago, it still remains higher than the national average of […]

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A Damascus resident is gaining national attention for an unexpected $2 million phone bill which fits into a pttern of wildly erratic billing by the phone carrier. A phone carrier he only had for a short period of time. Fox News reports. Watch the latest video at video.foxnews.com

By Josh Lehner Oregon Office of Economic Analysis Blog With headline unemployment back to normal levels and the number of job vacancies at an all-time high, some are increasingly asking the question of where the labor will come from. This was a topic of conversation at our latest forecast release […]

By Bullard Law, Portland law firm By Michael G. McClory For good or ill, gay marriage inspires many people. They have strong feelings about it. Sometimes those strong feelings are grounded in religion and sometimes they are not. When the workplace is added to the mix, emotions tend to run […]

by Petrich, Kathleen Miller, Nash, Graham & Dunn LLP NW Law Firm Startups and even established companies have increasingly turned to employee leasing companies, PEOs and staffing firms to supply workers. Some view this practice as a way to minimize potential liability for employment-related claims. The NLRB recently issued a […]

By John Charles Cascade Policy Institute The new bridge over the Willamette River, TriMet’s Tilikum Crossing, opened for business on Saturday. With beautiful weather and parties at every stop of the Orange MAX line, a good time was had by the thousands of sightseers. Unfortunately, now that we’ve returned to […]

By NFIB, As large cities across the US from Seattle to Los Angeles to New York City implement or consider $15 per hour minimum wages, business owners are sounding alarms about the consequences. In a piece picked up by USA Today, the Lower Hudson Valley (NY) Journal News reported that […]

By Oregon Attorney General, Oregon Attorney General Ellen Rosenblum today reached a $1.1 million settlement with Insys, the company that manufactures the schedule II opioid drug Subsys, to resolve allegations that the powerful drug approved by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to treat cancer pain was marketed in Oregon […]