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Just before the holidays, on December 16, 2019, the NLRB reinstated long-standing precedent dating back to the 1960s allowing all private employers to maintain confidentiality of workplace investigations, restrict nonbusiness use of company e-mail, a...

Miller Nash Graham & Dunn attorney Amy Robinson was quoted in a recent article in the Vancouver Business Journal titled “Watch for gray areas in new state leave law.” The article discusses Washington’s new Paid Family and Medical Leave, and...

It is the eve of Washington’s new Paid Family and Medical Leave (PFML) law going into full effect. While many of us think of January 1 as the day we start new diets, commit to new habits, build our vision boards, take our annual polar bear plunge, or...

We occasionally field urgent calls from worried school leaders confronted with allegations from one of their staff about perceived “harassment” or a “hostile work environment.” These situations present an understandably tense and thorny situation: th...

The 2019 Oregon Legislature did not make many amendments to the Public Contracting Code (ORS chs 279A-279C), but the following affect school district procurement. HB 2094 (Consideration of Debt to the State). Adds a section to ORS chapter 279A that...

A crisis can hit at any time, unexpectedly shifting the priorities of key school district administrative staff. Imagine: A former employee uploads a YouTube video claiming that a district has a multitude of safety violations. The video is picked u...