U.S. Chamber of Commerce U.S. Chamber of Commerce President and CEO Thomas J. Donohue issued the following statement on the Senate’s cloture vote on the Udall Amendment, S.J. Res. 19: “Few measures deserve to be more roundly rejected than Senator Udall’s amendment to repeal free speech rights enshrined in the […]

Department of Consumer and Business Services Workers’ compensation costs to drop for second-straight year Oregon workers’ compensation costs will decrease an average 5.3 percent in 2015, the Department of Consumer and Business Services (DCBS) announced this month.

Miller Nash LLP, Oregon and Washington Law Firm Think Your Independent Contractor Is Prohibited From Disclosing Your Trade Secrets? Think Again. A recent case out of Massachusetts held that, as a matter of law, in the absence of a confidentiality agreement (or a formal confidentiality policy), an independent contractor was […]

By Oregon Small Business Association Health care and food services are leading the national post recession job trend, while manufacturing and construction have shed the most since the beginning of the recession. But the decline in manufacturing employment does not mean the decline of the industry itself. Instead the influence […]

University of Oregon Regional Economic Indexes By Tim Duy Oregon Economic Forum University of  Oregon The Oregon Measure of Economic Activity rebounded from a drop in June. Highlights of the report include: – The Oregon Measure of Economic Activity rose to 0.12 compared to a revised -0.55 the previous month. […]

Portland web race speeds up — yet bad laws may slow it down. By Oregon tax News Thanks to Centurylink and Frontier the internet speed race in Portland just went from being lagging behind to being a national city frontrunner. In August, CenturyLink announced it is bringing much gigbit service […]

Barran Liebman Oregon Law Firm DOL Proposes Equal Pay Report Requirement for Contractors In an effort to combat persistent wage gaps between male and female workers (reports indicate women earn just 77¢ for each $1 earned by men), the U.S. Department of Labor has proposed a rule that would require […]

By NIKE Matthew Nurse and the Nike Sport Research team provide an inside look at the high-tech research facilities inside the lab at Nike’s World Headquarters, shedding light on how they turn data into innovation for athletes everywhere. How was Nike’s sport research lab formed? The research lab was started […]

By Bullard Law, Portland law firm According to the National Labor Relations Board website, the Board “protects the rights of most private-sector employees to join together, with or without a union, to improve their wages and working conditions.” In practice, the Board does not always adhere to this idealistic view […]

By Jan Meekcoms Oregon NFIB (Originally published in Salem Business Journal) It’s an election year, which means it’s time to drag the old tax-reform issue out of the attic and blow the cobwebs off of it. Just how important are tax issues to small business? In a survey of small […]