Washington Law Against Sexual Orientation Discrimination Not Retroactive By Nate Bailey Stoel Rives LLP, Oregon Law Firm Ahead of Schedule Blog On September 13, the Washington Supreme Court held that a 2006 amendment to the Washington Law Against Discrimination, which makes it illegal for employers to discriminate on the basis […]

Update on Oregon layoffs and bankruptcies See also “Who’s hiring in Oregon“ By Oregon Small Business Association HP in Corvallis lays off 240 Hewlett-Packard which has major operations in Corvallis announced 240 local lay offs.  The total global layoffs may reach 29,000 jobs by target date 2014.  The lay-offs are […]

By Bob Scott and Ronnie London Davis Dwight & Tremaine LLP Oregon business law firm  On September 12, 2012, Congressman Markey (D-Mass.) introduced the Mobile Device Privacy Act, H.R. 6377, which requires the FTC to regulate all mobile applications and devices, as well as mobile phone manufacturers and sellers, and […]

University of Oregon Regional Economic Indexes By Tim Duy Oregon Economic Forum University of  Oregon Oregon economic indicators rebounded in August.  Highlights of the report include: The Oregon Measure of Economic Activity rose to 0.34 from -1.06 in July (“zero” for this measure indicates the average growth rate over the […]

By Portland Business Alliance What sector provides 59 percent more in benefits and 8 percent more in wages across education levels? What sector employs 11 percent of Portland-metro’s workforce? The answer to those questions is: the manufacturing sector. These findings are part of the latest Value of Jobs Coalition report […]

It has been one year since the death of American entrepreneur Steve Jobs and CNN does a look into how ell Apple has adjusted without its iconic leader.

By U.S. Chamber of Commerce Ever wonder if or how your small business should be using social media and what your competitors are doing in this realm? The SMB Group’s latest survey, 2012 Small and Medium Social Business Study, examines how and why small and medium-size businesses (SMBs) are using […]

By Josh Lehner Oregon Office of Economic Analysis Blog One of the indicators used in our office’s Oregon Index of Leading Indicators is Help Wanted Ads. The theoretical basis for this is straight forward: if a business wants to hire another employee, the firm places an ad to notify prospective […]

Starbucks Leads the Way in Mobile Payments By Oregon Small Business Association Ordering a double-shot latte is easier and faster these days using Starbucks’ mobile payment program. Even before its recent $25 million investment in Square, the San Francisco mobile payments startup, Starbucks had been processing a million mobile-phone transactions […]

Patrick Emerson PhD , OSU Economist Oregon Economics Blog The economist has a nifty little discussion about the decline of the car in high income countries.  Here are two provocative graphs: