As 2024 wraps up and we look forward to 2025, below is a summary of upcoming changes in employment law that may impact employers in Oregon, Washington, and California. Many of the following updates go into effect on January...more
12/20/2024
/ California ,
Employee Benefits ,
Employer Liability Issues ,
Employment Policies ,
Human Resources Professionals ,
Oregon ,
Paid Leave ,
Paid Time Off (PTO) ,
State Labor Laws ,
Wage and Hour ,
Washington
In a unanimous opinion issued last Thursday, the U.S. Supreme Court clarified the standard that employers must use to measure the burden of an employee’s religious accommodation request. The case is Groff v. DeJoy, No....more
7/7/2023
/ Civil Rights Act ,
De Minimus Doctrine ,
Employer Liability Issues ,
Groff v DeJoy ,
Human Resources Professionals ,
Reasonable Accommodation ,
Religious Accommodation ,
Religious Discrimination ,
SCOTUS ,
Substantial Burden ,
Title VII ,
Undue Hardship
Oregon’s paid leave program (providing up to 12+ weeks of paid family, medical, and safe leave to eligible employees per leave year) will be here soon. Almost all businesses with employees in Oregon are required to...more
As we blogged about on September 9, 2021, President Biden announced sweeping new vaccine requirements that will impact millions of employees across the country, including...more
9/30/2021
/ Biden Administration ,
Coronavirus/COVID-19 ,
Employer Liability Issues ,
Employer Mandates ,
Health and Safety ,
Human Resources Professionals ,
Infectious Diseases ,
OSHA ,
Public Health Emergency ,
Vaccinations ,
Workplace Safety
To address the on-going COVID-19 pandemic and the recent Delta variant surge, President Biden announced yesterday that he will implement sweeping new requirements to increase vaccination rates across the country. Among the...more
As we previously wrote about, the State of Oregon and Multnomah County are each imposing new indoor mask requirements beginning today, August 13, 2021, in response to the escalating COVID-19 pandemic driven by the Delta...more
Last week, the U.S. House of Representatives narrowly passed the Protecting the Right to Organize (“PRO”) Act, which would make sweeping union-friendly changes to the three primary federal laws that govern private-sector...more