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May 4, 2021 - Car dealer settlement returns money to 1,700 consumers

Oregon Attorney General Press Release, Oregon Attorney General Ellen Rosenblum today announced a crack-down on deceptive prize promotions run by car dealerships. The sweeping statewide investigation ended in settlements with four different car dealerships for sending misleading mailers and scratch-off tickets that made customers think they had won a prize. […]


May 3, 2021 - Biden enacts targeted $15.00 minimum wage

By Josh Goldberg & Gabrielle Hansen Barran Liebman LLP Oregon law firm, Employers take note, on Tuesday, April 27, 2021, President Biden signed an Executive Order raising the minimum hourly wage for federal contractors and subcontractors to $15.00 and tying future automatic increases to the Consumer Price Index. President Obama […]


April 30, 2021 - Debit card swipe fees lawsuit aims to return billions

By National Retail Federation, Retailers filed a lawsuit today seeking to have the Federal Reserve lower its 10-year-old cap on “swipe” fees banks charge to process debit card transactions, saying the agency wrongly applied federal law and that merchants have paid billions of dollars more than intended by Congress while […]


April 29, 2021 - Late notice shutdown hurts business. Many won’t survive

Oregon Business and Industry, OBI Responds to Latest Round of Business Closures We absolutely share the governor’s concern about rising COVID cases and hospitalizations across Oregon. The end of this pandemic is in sight, and all of us need to continue practicing safety measures, including getting fully vaccinated, so we […]


April 28, 2021 - NFIB: Lockdowns impact those already most hurt

By NFIB, Reaction to Latest Shutdown Order Business closures unfairly punish those already negatively impacted by the pandemic SALEM, Ore., April 27, 2021—From Anthony Smith, Oregon state director for NFIB, the state’s largest small-business association, on Gov. Kate Brown’s announcement today, moving 15 of the state’s 36 counties back into […]


April 27, 2021 - House passes tax relief for business

By Oregon Restaurant and Lodging Association, The Oregon House of Representatives voted overwhelmingly to move forward with bipartisan legislation which would provide millions in unemployment insurance tax relief for some of Oregon’s hardest hit industries. House Bill 3389 passed the Oregon House and will now move to the Senate for […]


April 26, 2021 - OSHU rules when your employees have vaccine problems

By Barran Liebman LLP Oregon law firm, The Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) recently issued guidance on when employers need to record adverse reactions to COVID-19 vaccines. OSHA’s guidance indicates adverse reactions to the COVID-19 vaccine are recordable on the OSHA recordkeeping log if it is: Work-related; A new […]


April 23, 2021 - Study: Repealing stepped-up basis tax rule destroys jobs

By NFIB, The National Federation of Independent Business (NFIB), the nation’s leading small business advocacy organization, issued the following statement regarding a new report that finds that repealing the stepped-up basis tax provision could significantly decrease job creation and hurt America’s small business owners. “As this study shows, repealing the […]


April 22, 2021 - Jobless by county

By Oregon Employment Department, March 2021 Employment and Unemployment in Oregon’s Counties In March 2021, 24 out of 36 of Oregon’s counties experienced over-the-month decreases in their unemployment rates. Clatsop and Union counties saw the largest over-the-month decrease, declining 0.9 percentage point each in March. Lincoln County had Oregon’s highest […]


April 21, 2021 - Rep. Bonham bill fixes unemployment tax trap

State Representative Daniel Bonham, Republicans push comprehensive fixes to Oregon’s unemployment benefits system SALEM, Ore. – A Republican-sponsored bill that was approved by the House with unanimous support seeks to introduce a number of fixes to Oregon’s unemployment benefits system. Chief among them is allowing businesses to reset their unemployment […]