The Oregon Bureau of Labor and Industries has updated and released its Minimum Wage notice for 2012. Effective Jan. 1, 2012, the minimum wage rate will increase from $8.50 per hour to $8.80 per hour. The 30-cent increase mirrors a 3.77 percent increase in the Consumer Price Index (CPI) since August 2010. Ballot Measure 25, enacted by Oregon voters in 2002, requires a minimum wage...

The Oregon Bureau of Labor and Industries (BOLI) has announced a statewide wage increase from $8.40 to $8.50 an hour effective Jan. 1, 2011. Passed by voters in 2006, Measure 25 requires BOLI to adjust the minimum wage based on a year-to-year reading of the Consumer Price Index (CPI) at the end of each August. The 10-cent increase for 2011 reflects an inflation rate of 1.5 percent over the...

The Oregon Bureau of Labor and Industries (BOLI) has revised its Family Leave Act notice. According to the agency, this change is mandatory, and all eligible employers must replace their old notices dated December 2009 with the current version dated March 2010. The notice has been revised to include new information regarding military family leave. The section entitled "How Much Leave...

Oregon has passed a law to mandate that employers try to find reasonable accommodations at work for victims of domestic violence. Such accommodations might include changing the victim's phone extension and/or actual physical workstation or desk location. The inartfully named Oregon Victims of Certain Crimes Leave Act, which went into effect Jan. 1, piggybacks on a 2007 law that extended...

The Oregon Bureau of Labor and Industries (BOLI) has passed legislation, Senate Bill 519, which prohibits employers from taking adverse action against employees who decline to attend meetings or participate in communications concerning the employer's opinion about religious or political matters.   The new law became effective Jan. 1, 2010.   The law requires employers to...

The Oregon Bureau of Labor and Industries has updated its Minimum Wage and Family Leave Act posters.  Per the agency, these changes are mandatory an employers must replace existing notices with the current versions. Changes to the Oregon Minimum Wage poster include the following: As the Oregon Labor Commissioner announced in September 2009, the state's minimum wage will...

On Jan. 1, 2009, Oregon is raising its minimum wage from $7.95 to $8.40, and has already issued a new notification poster, which is mandatory. As a result of Ballot Measure 25, passed by voters in 2002, the minimum wage is adjusted annually based on changes in inflation as measured by the Consumer Price Index (CPI). The Commissioner of the Bureau of Labor and Industries (BOLI) is charged...