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CFPB Continues Enforcement Despite Uncertainty
By Employment Law & Litigation Practice Group On April 20, 2017, Richard Cordray, the director of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (“CFPB”), announced that the CFPB was filing suit against the mortgage servicer Ocwen Financial Corporation (“Ocwen”). Citing...
Times Of Change: The Receivership Insolvency Alternative
Denial is a significant impediment to resolving challenging insolvency situations. A debtor in financial crisis may understandably hold out hope for a new contract or a change in a depressed economic cycle. Employees struggle when paychecks are delayed or the demands...
U.S. HOUSE PASSES COMP TIME BILL
By Randall Sutton The U.S. House of Representatives passed a bill last week that would amend the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) to allow private-sector employers to give their hourly and salaried nonexempt employees the option of receiving paid time off in lieu of...
OregonSaves Retirement Program Becomes Final: All Oregon Employers Must Act
By Randy Cook & Christine Moehl Employee Benefits & Executive Compensation On April 18, 2017, the Oregon Retirement Savings Board issued final regulations that will launch the “OregonSaves” Retirement Program (the “Program”) enacted by the Oregon Legislature in 2015....
Early Neutral Evaluation
Early Neutral Evaluation (“ENE”) is a form of alternative dispute resolution that is becoming increasingly popular, particularly in disputes involving difficult factual or legal issues. The concept is simple. Before litigating a dispute, the parties agree to hire an...
Misappropriating Trade Secrets: Guarding Your Business from Departing Employees
By David Briggs As unemployment dips to historic lows, most companies know that retaining employees is difficult. Your talented employees are liable to find greener pastures and leave you in a lurch. The problem is that many of those employees that walk off may...
Daily Overtime for Manufacturing Employees – New Developments & More Uncertainty
By: Randall Sutton As we have previously reported to you here, BOLI has recently taken the position that during weeks where a manufacturing employee earns both daily and weekly overtime, the two overtime rates are added together to essentially pay the employee...
What The New FEMA Guidelines Mean For Development In Oregon
On January 30, 2015, President Obama signed Executive Order 13690 (“EO”) as part of his Climate Action Plan. The EO amended Executive Order 11988, signed by President Jimmy Carter in 1977, that required federal agencies “to avoid to the extent possible the long and...
Court of Appeals Allows Enforcement of Note Indorsed in Blank Despite No Recorded Transfer History
By: Creditor's Rights & Bankruptcy Practice Group Last month, the Oregon Court of Appeals held in Nationstar Mortgage, LLC v. Niday that when one party “is in possession of [a] promissory note indorsed in blank and [the other party] is in default of [its] obligations...
Huggers Beware: Court Case Embraces Expanding the Definition of Sexual Harassment – A Lesson in Equal Opportunity Hugging
By: David M. Briggs Have you ever been to that office party where your boss greets a longtime employee with a hug? You followed your coworker in and you can see it in your boss’s face: not hugging you may seem like you are not as valuable or appreciated. But, had it...