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Oregon Construction Law
AGC University - Safety Responsibilities for Employers and Employees
Oregon Construction Law
JUNE 2010
2010 may be a good time for estate and succession planning by gifting. In fact, it may be a point in time that will disappear in the near term as a desirable time to make gift transfers. There are three reasons which create this window of opportunity, assuming that the transfers are done correctly. Read more.
A catch phrase from a popular 1960s television show, Lost in Space, may be the best advice for the employee who uses employer-provided electronic equipment to send racy, sexually explicit communications to others. On June 17, 2010, the United States Supreme Court issued its decision in City of Ontario v. Quon, 560 U.S. ____ (2010), holding that a government employer has the right, in certain enumerated circumstances, to read text messages sent and received on a pager owned by the employer and issued to an employee. Read more.
Regulators are under intense pressure to tighten workplace safety regulations and impose tougher penalties on violators, following several recent fatal coal mine disasters. Tensions are high between industry and lawmakers, as they seek to strike a balance between addressing workplace safety concerns and imposing costly — sometimes economic "death knell" — requirements on contractors in order to encourage workplace safety. Read more.
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