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Oregon Legislature Revives Property Line Adjustments
Oregon Legislature Revives Property Line Adjustments By Real Estate and Land Use Practice Group SAALFELD GRIGGS PC House Bill 3629 (“HB 3629”), which became law on March 3, 2008, revives the property line adjustment, a common land use tool which had been left for dead...
New Legislative Changes for Real Estate and Land Use
New Legislative Changes for Real Estate and Land Use By Mark D. Shipman Saalfeld Griggs PC The 2003 Oregon Legislature has recorded the longest session in the legislature’s history. Negotiations over the state’s budget are the main reason for the length of the...
The Shifting Cost of COBRA Coverage: What Should Employers Do?
The Shifting Cost of COBRA Coverage: What Should Employers Do? By Randall P. Sutton SAALFELD GRIGGS PC On February 17, 2009, President Obama signed into law an economic stimulus package known as the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (“ARRA”). Among its...
Sweeping Changes to ADA – New Burdens for Employers
Sweeping Changes to ADA - New Burdens for Employers By Randall P. Sutton SAALFELD GRIGGS PC Last month Congress passed into law what is perhaps the most dramatic change in federal employment law in the past ten years. The amendments will require employers to shift...
Navigating Local Land Use Procedures
Navigating Local Land Use Procedures By Real Estate and Land Use Practice Group SAALFELD GRIGGS PC Generally, newly proposed development on property, even if “permitted” within the applicable zone, requires the property owner or developer to apply to the city or...
Regulating Work Place Romances
Regulating Work Place Romances By Randall P. Sutton SAALFELD GRIGGS PC At some time during your working life, you may have dated, or even married, someone you met at work. If you haven't, then the odds are that you know someone who has. A 1995 survey estimated that 80...
Reducing the Risk of Terminations
Reducing the Risk of Terminations No one enjoys terminating an employee. As we all know, however, it is essential to operating almost any business. Unfortunately, the myriad of employment laws make many terminations, even well justified ones, legally risky. The key to...
Marion County Rural Zoning Ordinance Changes
Marion County Rural Zoning Ordinance Changes By Mark D. Shipman Saalfeld Griggs PC On July 28th, Marion County amended its rural zoning ordinance by making significant changes to the commercial and industrial zones. These changes affect those properties outside of...
Prohibiting Employee Discussions of Pay May Violate Federal Law
Prohibiting Employee Discussions of Pay May Violate Federal Law Does your company prohibit employees from discussing pay? Many do, but what many employers don't realize is that the National Labor Relations Act (“NLRA”), the federal law that governs unionizing and...
Many Rivers to Cross: An Update on Oregon’s Water Wars
Many Rivers to Cross: An Update on Oregon's Water Wars By Real Estate & Land Use Practice Group SAALFELD GRIGGS PC It may seem like a conundrum to those of us in the moss- covered valley that there is a Water War brewing in our state; but there is. The Secretary of...