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By: Randall Sutton The Oregon Sick Time law is almost as vague as it is complicated. The many pages of statutes and regulations fail to cover some key points and raise many questions, requiring employers to read between the lines when structuring sick time and PTO policies. Fortunately, the Oregon legislature has dropped a toe …
By: Randall Sutton The second increase in a series of minimum wage increases goes into effect July 1st with the largest wage jump of any year in the six-year cycle. As we have discussed previously, Oregon’s stair-stepping series of wage increases create a patchwork of different rates by region. Effective July 1st, here are the …
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 double-time for all overtime hours worked in the same week. BOLI’s new interpretation …
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] By: Randall Sutton Saalfeld Griggs Employment Law & Litigation Practice Groups Oregon requires that most manufacturing employers pay daily overtime if an employee works more than 10 hours in a single day. As with most other employers, a manufacturer also must pay overtime when an employee works more than 40 hours in a single …