By Bullard Law, Portland law firm On June 19, 2014, in Lane v Franks, the United States Supreme Court unanimously held that the First Amendment protects a public employee who provides truthful sworn testimony, compelled by subpoena, outside the scope of his/her ordinary job duties. Sworn testimony in a judicial […]

by Betsy Earls Associated Oregon Industries Oregon’s largest business advocate On, June 18, the Eugene City Council voted to draft an ordinance requiring employers to provide paid sick leave to workers. The ordinance is expected to be ready for a hearing July 21, and a vote July 28. The council […]

By NIKE, Baseball is a game of incremental advances and steady progress – from first to second, from the minors to the majors – and traditionally, that same progression has been mirrored in the sport’s technology. Enter the Nike Vapor Collection: ultra-light, ultra-fast equipment engineered to accelerate baseball athletes to […]

Ater Wynne LLP NW Law frim The EEOC and NLRB continue to target employers who restrict employee speech and conduct, especially when those restrictions could impact employees’ rights under labor and employment laws. The EEOC recently filed suit attacking the use of certain terms in employer settlement agreements, this time […]

U.S. Chamber of Commerce Foundation Rich Cooper Vice President of Research & Emerging Issues. For four years I had the job growing up that a lot of young men had—I was a “paperboy” for the local newspaper, in this case The Pittsburgh Press. This was back in the Stone Age, […]

Associated Oregon Industries Oregon’s largest business advocate Supporters of a move to privatize sales of liquor in Oregon have decided to drop back and regroup for another election cycle. On Wednesday, Oregonians for Competition decided that in the face of continuing legal challenges, there wasn’t enough time to collect signatures […]

Who’s Laying Off & Moving? By Oregon Small Business Association Vestas’ 200 Oregon jobs soon gone with the wind As of early May, the Danish wind turbine maker Vestas Wind Systems, is increasingly pointing all turbines towards Colorado. All indications by Chris Brown, Vestas’ North American President, point towards “site […]

by Bill Conerly, Oregon economist Conerly Consulting, Businomics One Down Quarter for the Economy Is Not a Recession The rough rule of thumb is that a recession has two or more consecutive quarters of declining real GDP.* Why not just one quarter? We have a good example of why not […]

Business Oregon Leads Delegation of Six Oregon Companies to the National Innovation Summit From Business Oregon Business Oregon will lead an Oregon delegation of six technology companies as well as university representatives as they present their ideas for new technologies at the third National Innovation Summit June 15-18 in Washington, […]

Patrick Emerson PhD , OSU Economist Oregon Economics Blog The Upshot, The New York Times‘s answer to FiveThirtyEight edited by David Leonhardt has some fantastic poll data about soccer around the world.  Here are the two charts from the article: