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Last week, a draft bill requiring employers to provide paid sick leave to Oregon employees was introduced in the House Business and Labor Committee. The draft bill is available for review here. The bill as drafted would require most Oregon employers to provide one hour of paid sick leave for every 30 hours worked, up …
by Randall Sutton – Employment Law & Litigation Practice Group Chalk up a wage and hour win for employers in a U.S. Supreme Court case decided today. The issue was whether employees who are required to wait in line at a security checkpoint before leaving work should be paid for the time they spend standing around. The Court …
In the waning days of the election, we were asked by employers, from an employment law perspective, what the passage of Measure 91, which legalizes recreational marijuana use in Oregon, would mean for their business and their drug policies. With Tuesday night’s results, the issue hits home with a bit more impact. Many employers have adopted a zero …