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Will paid sick leave make employers sick in 2013?

As if employers didn鈥檛 have enough to worry about, there is a strong likelihood that Portland City Council soon will vote on a proposal that would require many or perhaps […]

Courts provide employers with whistleblower lessons

In the past week, a federal appeals court and a state appeals court ruled on separate Oregon whistleblower cases, offering lessons for attentive employers on how to properly deal with […]

Business going to the dogs?

It is estimated that 1.4 million owners bring 2.3 million dogs to work each day, and that doesn鈥檛 even count one-person shops and people who work at home. Many company […]

Be careful, employers: You鈥檙e in the 鈥榬ed zone鈥�

Most employers don鈥檛 even realize that they are smack-dab in the middle of the most dangerous time of year 鈥� the so-called 鈥渞ed zone.鈥� It refers to the months of […]

25 million reasons to stop workplace bullying

When a jury takes time to examine a workplace culture and then reaches a $25 million verdict against the employer, it鈥檚 clear that it was doing something wrong. That is […]

Metal fabricators says job applicants lack skills, work ethic

According to a report released this month by Worksource Oregon, nearly one-third of 70 fabricated metal manufacturing companies in Marion, Polk and Yamhill counties surveyed had trouble filling positions in 2011. Applicants often lacked skills, training and even a solid work ethic.

Supervisor-subordinate relationships: never a good idea

Because many people spend most of their waking hours at the office, and often spend more time with co-workers than family members, it鈥檚 not unusual for workplace romances to blossom. […]

Court provides guidance on managing employee attendance

I鈥檓 going to guess that many employers or managers can immediately think of an employee they supervise who has an attendance problem. Perhaps it鈥檚 someone who misses a lot of […]

Criminal background checks just got a little harder

Many employers conduct criminal background checks for applicants or new hires in order to complete due diligence. In fact, the National Consumer Law Center reports that a whopping 93 percent […]

Can you get fired for wearing an orange shirt to work?

One of the most common questions I hear from my non-lawyer friends is something along the lines of: 鈥淚 know that my employment at my company is at-will, but that […]

Oregon employers have something new to worry about

With the state Legislature's recent passage of Senate Bill 1548, Oregon is a mere signature away from becoming the second state in the country to ban job advertisements that specifically announce that unemployed people need not apply.