Will Gardner Director, Center for Capital Market Competitiveness US Chamber of Commerce, Underlining the successful relationship between banks and their customers is a simple yet essential element: trust. Bank customers expect their transactions to be both secure and confidential, and banks honor that trust to garner consumer confidence and grow. […]

By Heather J. Van Meter Bullard law, 1. Omicron Variant Continues to Spread, and Employers Must Continue Compliance with Facemasks, Sanitation, HVAC, Other Precautions The Omicron variant of the SARS-COV-2 virus is quickly becoming the dominant variant around the nation and globally. Oregon Health Authority does not officially report any […]

By Oregon Small Business Association Foundation, People who love Lay’s potato chips can find that salty flavor in a special potato vodka available through Portland’s Eastside Distilling. It sold out within three hours. The distillery is working with Lays this holiday season to concoct a way for people to sip […]

Oregon Attorney General Ellen Rosenblum Press Release, Oregon Attorney General Ellen Rosenblum co-led a bipartisan letter from 33 Attorneys General to Rohit Chopra, Director of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) calling for stronger consumer safeguards for money sharing platforms and apps. Popular payment apps include Apple Pay, Venmo, Square, […]

By NFIB, In an otherwise dismal year for Oregon’s small-business owners, 2022 will open with some good news for them—their UI taxes will be lower. “The Employment Department has good news for Oregon employers contributing to the Unemployment Insurance (UI) Trust Fund,” said the department in a news release. “Oregon […]

By Congressman Peter DeFazio, Senators Edward J. Markey (D-Mass.) and Tammy Baldwin (D-Wisc.), members of the Senate Commerce, Science and Transportation Committee, and Representative Anna G. Eshoo (CA-18), senior member of the House Energy and Commerce Committee, and Representative Peter DeFazio (OR-04), chair of the House Committee on Transportation & […]

By Oregon Employment department, November 2021 Employment and Unemployment in Oregon’s Counties In November 2021, 35 of Oregon’s 36 counties experienced over-the-month decreases in their unemployment rates. Seventeen counties experienced a 0.3 percentage point decrease or more over the month including Baker, Clackamas, Clatsop, Coos, Crook, Curry, Gilliam, Klamath, Multnomah, […]

By Oregon Small Business Association Foundation, A ransomware attack on McMenamins may have compromised the names, social security numbers, and bank information of 2,700 employees at the family-owned hospitality business. However, the bank information of customers appears to be safe. The Dec. 12 cyberattack left the Pacific Northwest chain of […]

By Christine M. Zinter Bullard Law NW Law firm Late Friday evening, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit, in a surprise opinion, dissolved the injunction placed by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit to block OSHA’s COVID-19 vaccination and testing emergency temporary standard (ETS). […]

By US Senator Ron Wyden, Press Release U.S. Senator Ron Wyden, D-Ore., and House Intelligence Committee Chairman Adam Schiff, D-Calif., called on the Biden Administration to sanction four mercenary hacking corporations under the Global Magnitsky Act, for enabling human rights violations by authoritarian regimes. House Foreign Affairs Committee Chairman Gregory […]