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On June 11, 2019, Governor Brown signed the Oregon Workplace Fairness Act ("the Act") into law. The Act brings significant changes for all employers with Oregon employees. The new law, which goes into effect this fall, has largely been described...

“I Get By With a Little Help From My Friends”[1] / “Taxman”[2] In 2017 and 2019, Washington created two new government programs funded by employee payroll deductions. This year, the Washington legislature created a new long-term services program (im...

On May 8, 2019, Governor Inslee signed ESHB 1450, implementing a series of requirements for enforceable noncompetition covenants in Washington, as well as provisions relating to moonlighting restrictions and franchise arrangements. Any action to enfo...

Private employers with 100 or more employees have long been required to submit annual employer information reports (“EEO-1 reports”) to the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (the “EEOC”) showing the number of their employees by job category, ra...

Not so long ago, employers needed to be wary of having policies and handbook provisions requiring employees to be courteous, professional, respectful, and the like, for fear that the National Labor Relations Board would find them in violation of the...

Unions in Washington State increased their membership by 100,000 in 2018 and unions' market share of the state labor force rose by 1 percent to 19.8 percent, the third highest percentage of any state in the country. Oregon lost 10,000 union members i...