by Andrea Goicochea | Aug 31, 2023 | 2023, COVID-19, Employers, Employment Law, Lawyers, Litigation
By David Briggs, Partner – Employment Law & Litigation Practice Group Ready or not, here it comes. Paid Leave Oregon is here. Employees are eligible to apply for benefits and can start receiving those benefits beginning on September 3, 2023. The Oregon...
by Andrea Goicochea | Feb 14, 2022 | 2021, Employers, Employment Law, Lawyers, Litigation, RPS
By Randall Sutton, Partner – Employment Law & Litigation Practice Group Many of us may have dated (or even married) a co-worker. Work can be a perfect matchmaker. There are lots of reasons why workplace relationships flourish. When hiring, employers look for...
by Andrea Goicochea | Jan 21, 2022 | 2022, Employers, Employment Law, Lawyers
A story has been circulating recently about an auto repair shop that paid their former employee’s final paycheck in pennies. Nobody likes loose change, especially when it’s dumped on your driveway and adorned with your paystub that has an expletive spelled out on...
by Andrea Goicochea | Dec 20, 2021 | 2021, COVID-19, Employers, Employment Law, Health Law, Lawyers, Litigation, RPS
By Randall Sutton, Partner – Employment Law & Litigation Practice Group When it comes to COVID-19, things change quickly, and it can be difficult to predict what will happen next. I reported last week here that all of the federal vaccine mandates were in...
by Andrea Goicochea | Dec 9, 2021 | 2021, COVID-19, Employers, Employment Law, Health Law, Lawyers, Litigation, RPS
By Randall Sutton, Partner – Employment Law & Litigation Practice Group It can be confusing to track the many different governmental vaccine mandates floating around right now, especially given the flurry of challenges asserted in the courts. With or without a...
by Andrea Goicochea | Dec 2, 2021 | 2021, Employers, Employment Law, Health Law, Lawyers, Litigation, RPS
By Randall Sutton, Partner – Employment Law & Litigation Practice Group Let’s face it. Noncompetition agreements have a reputation for being unenforceable. While it’s true that a court won’t go out of its way to enforce a bad agreement, noncompetition...
