Counties with the highest unemployment in Oregon Updated Jan 15, 2025 2024 ended on a high note, with the unemployment rate relatively unchanged at 4.1%, the Bureau of Labor Statistics reported on ...

Lindsay Leahy, the Unemployment Insurance Division Director with the Oregon Employment Department, responded to inquiries about the current regulations for issuing unemployment benefits.

Employment in Oregon fell slightly in December, due mostly to losses in semiconductor and electronic component manufacturing. The unemployment rate rose from 4% to 4.1%, which is still in line with ...

That benefit: unemployment insurance payments for striking workers. Senate Bill 916, written at the request of the AFL-CIO of Oregon, would amend current Oregon law, which deems strikers ...

New members of the Oregon Legislature were sworn in Monday — a week before the 2025 legislative session gets underway — and Gov. Tina Kotek delivered her State of the State address driving ...

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A proposal to allow striking workers to collect unemployment benefits is pitting workers and unions against business interests in Salem. The Senate Committee on Labor and Business on Thursday ...

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As the Legislature prepares to meet, the governor talked of “fragile” progress on a variety of crises during her state of the state address. Oregon Gov. Tina Kotek on Monday pitched state lawmakers on ...

Oregon has a Democratic trifecta and a Democratic triplex. The Democratic Party controls the offices of governor, secretary of state, attorney general, and both chambers of the state legislature. As ...

Watch Gov. Kotek’s entire 2025 State of the State address in the video player below. Climate change remains high on her list of priorities and focused remarks on battling wildfires.

State and federal land and water often spill over borders, requiring federal collaboration with Oregon agencies and leaders, who espouse environmental values at odds with those of Trump. Gov. Tina ...