HR Essentials for Small Business Owners – Part I

Congratulations! Your business is growing, and you have hired employees to help you make it all work. But the world of work has become a very different place, and finding a balance between maximizing employee value while minimizing your compliance risks can be daunting. In just a couple of hours you will learn HR essentials […]

Oregon Bureau of Labor and Industries (BOLI) Has Released New 2018 Oregon Composite Posters

The Oregon Bureau of Labor and Industries (BOLI) has just released their 2018 Oregon Workplace Composite Posters.  The posters provide an alternative to printing and posting multiple posters or purchasing a 3rd party composite poster for much more than BOLI charges to comply with the workplace posting requirement. Oregon’s new equal pay law goes into […]

Oregon’s Minimum Wage Increases July 1, 2018. Download the new poster here

The third of seven pre-defined Oregon minimum wage increases will take effect on July 1, 2018.  Enacted by the 2016 Oregon Legislature, Senate Bill 1532 established a series of annual minimum wage rate increases beginning July 1, 2016 through July 1, 2022.  Beginning July 1, 2023, any increases to the minimum wage rate will be indexed to inflation based on the Consumer Price […]

Employers Must Be Using Revised Form I-9 by Sept. 18, 2017

USCIS released a revised version of Form I-9, Employment Eligibility Verification on July 17.  Employers can begin using this revised version now, and by Sept. 18 all employers must be using the new form with a revision date of 07/17/17. Employers must continue following existing storage and retention rules for any previously completed Form I-9.   Revisions to the Form […]

Summary of Oregon Employment Laws Effective January 1, 2016

As a mid-year reminder,  tapping the link below will provide you with a summary of the Oregon employment laws that are now in effect as of January 1, 2016.  A review of Oregon laws effective after January 1 can be found in separate posts. If you have any questions or comments regarding the information in this summary […]