By Cascade Employers Association, Every business has, at some point, struggled with recruitment. The inability to find applicants means that sometimes you hire someone just to get a “warm body” in the seat, and hope they can complete the duties well enough to get by. In cases like these, staffing […]

By Benjamin P. O’Glasser Bullard Law, Portland based law firm Oregon’s predictive scheduling law goes into effect on July 1, 2018. We previously wrote about Oregon’s predictive scheduling law in August 2017. In advance of the law’s effective date, BOLI has issued final administrative rules that will govern its administration […]

By Dr. Eric Fruits, Oregon Economist, This has been a big year for business in the courts. A U.S. district court approved the AT&T-Time Warner merger, the Supreme Court upheld Amex’s agreements with merchants, and a circuit court pushed back on the Federal Trade Commission’s vague and heavy handed policing […]

Congressman Peter DeFazio, Press Release, Rep. Peter DeFazio introduced legislation to discourage multinational corporations from moving abroad by taxing corporate profits on a per-country basis. “Republicans promised that their tax plan would bring jobs home to the U.S., but instead it is encouraging multi-billion dollar corporations to move jobs and […]

By Maayan Lattin Davis Wright Tremaine LLP Oregon law firm The Los Angeles Times has reported that the California Legislature and the activists behind the California Consumer Privacy Act of 2018 have reached a tentative deal for the withdrawal of the privacy measure primed for the November ballot. In exchange […]

By Oregon Prosperity Project When economists from the Oregon Office of Economic Analysis presented the Economic and Revenue Forecast in June 2018, they identified trade tensions as one of a handful of national and international political/economic factors – along with a tightening labor supply and rising interest rates – that […]

By Cascade Employers Association, So you may have heard rumblings about companies who are paying astronomical minimum wage rates. A California fast food restaurant recently reported they will be raising minimum wage to $17.00 per hour for their employees.

By Oregon Small Business Association Restaurants and bars in New York City, facing higher costs such as from minimum wage hikes, are selling use of their restrooms and space in their buildings to bring in extra money. The Lower East Side’s Hotel Chantelle and a half dozen other businesses are […]

By Oregon Business & Industry Business and community leaders from all parts of Oregon recognize the urgent need for state budget and tax reforms – especially addressing the rising PERS pension costs sapping budgets for schools, local governments and state services. That’s what Oregon Business Plan partners learned over the […]

By Oregon Small Business Association, Iran’s National Soccer team scrambled to find footwear only a few days before competing in the World Cup in Russia this month after Nike announced it could no longer supply the team with boots because of economic sanctions. Nike had provided the squad with boots […]