Jackie Damm is the Office Managing Shareholder in the Portland, Oregon office of Ogletree Deakins, and is also a member of the firm’s Traditional Labor Steering Committee. Jackie focuses her practice on all aspects of traditional labor law, including representing both public and private sector employers in collective bargaining negotiations, National Labor Relations Board proceedings, […]
After focusing her undergraduate and law school educations on labor relations and employment law, Felicity A. Fowler has more than 26 years of experience representing employers in all facets of employment law throughout the United States. She is certified by the Texas Board of Legal Specialization as a specialist in the field of Labor and […]
The Federal Communications Commission has released an order making it easier for broadcasters and cable operators to rehire employees laid off as a result of the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic. Ordinarily, the FCC’s equal employment opportunity rules require broadcast stations that employ five or more full-time employees and cable operators that employ six or more full-time employees to […]
In 2015, the City of Pittsburgh enacted the Paid Sick Days Act (the “Act”), requiring all private employers of full or part-time employees within the City of Pittsburgh to provide paid sick leave benefits as follows: Employers with 15 or more employees must provide workers with up to 40 hours of paid sick time per […]
In his bylined article for Cascade Business News titled “Explaining Oregon’s Attempt to Rein in Restrictive Covenants,” Stephen Scott discusses HB 2992, a new law that adds another hurdle for Oregon employers seeking to enforce noncompetition agreements. The new law requires, among other things, an employer to provide a signed, written copy of the terms of the […]
Over the past five years, the United States has seen a wave of new laws aimed at providing employees with more predictable work schedules. These predictive scheduling laws are meant to provide stability to individuals so that they can attend to their child care, health, education and, in many cases, second jobs. Early predictive scheduling […]