3A THE DAILY ASTORIAN • WEDNESDAY, APRIL 20, 2016 Wage rules would require employers to track workers By PARIS ACHEN Capital Bureau SALEM — Proposed rules for Oregon’s new three-tiered, regional minimum wage law would require employers to pay employees based on where the employee actually works. Starting in 2017, employers will have to track not only the hours their employees work but also the location, under the draft rules. Employees who work for more than four hours per week in another region would earn that region’s wage for those hours. “Let’s say they just did a brief meeting or a short job that took less than four hours, they would get the same pay. If they do more than four hours, say they do half of the week in one region and half of the week in another region, then they would have to pay two separate rates,” said Paloma Sparks, legislative director for the state Bureau of Labor and Industries. 7he ¿ rst-of-its-kind law takes effect July 1, bumping up the state’s minimum wage from $9.25 to $9.75 state- wide. In 2017, wage increases will diverge according to region. By 2022, wages will reach $14.75 in the Portland area, $12.50 in most rural and coastal counties and $13.50 in Clatsop County and the rest of the state. That’s when the proposed rules could become compli- cated for some employers. For example, an employee who works in Salem for 35 hours and in Portland for ¿ ve hours per week in 2017 would earn $10.25 per hour for the time in Salem and $11.25 per ‘The worker advocates would like the threshold to be a lot lower, like one hour; employer advocates would like it to be where the employer is located. There is not a lot of meeting in the middle.’ Paloma Sparks legislative director, state Bureau of Labor and Industries. hour for the time in Portland. The new law, passed in February, directed the labor bureau to make the rules relat- ing to employer location. Determining how to pay employees who work in differ- ent locations is the main issue the agency is trying to resolve with the rules, Sparks said. An advisory committee has helped to shape the rules. There is little agreement about how the regional wage should be determined, Sparks said. “The worker advocates would like the threshold to be a lot lower, like one hour; employer advocates would like it to be where the employer is located. There is not a lot of meeting in the middle,” Sparks said. Committee members are the NW Grocery Associa- tions, Oregon Restaurant and Lodging Association, Oregon Farm Bureau, Oregon Associ- ation of Nurseries, Association of Oregon Industries, Oregon Business Association, PCUN, AFL-CIO, Family Forward, SEIU, CAUSA and Oregon Center for Public Policy. Rep- resentatives from the of¿ ces of state Sen. Michael Dembrow, D-Portland, and Rep. Paul Holvey, D-Eugene, serve on the committee. Under the law, the mini- mum wage gradually climbs to $14.75 in 2022 in the Portland urban growth boundary, which includes parts of Multnomah, Washington and Clackamas counties. It will rise to $13.50 in Benton, Clatsop, Colum- bia, Deschutes, Hood River, Jackson, Josephine, Lane, Lin- coln, Linn, Marion, Polk, Til- lamook, Wasco and Yamhill counties, and parts of Mult- nomah, Clackamas and Wash- ington counties outside Port- land’s urban growth boundary. In rural areas, the wage increases to $12.50. Those areas include Malheur, Lake, Harney, Wheeler, Sherman, Gilliam, Wallowa, Grant, Jef- ferson, Baker, Union, Crook, Klamath, Douglas, Coos, Curry, Umatilla and Morrow counties. The Capital Bureau is a collaboration between EO Media Group and Pamplin Media Group. Unemployment at 4.5 Opioid abuse focus of summit in Seaside percent in Clatsop County cle accidents,” Dr. Sa¿ na Koreishi, medical director SEASIDE — The for Columbia Paci¿ c, said Columbia Paci¿ c Coordi- in a statement. “This epi- nated Care Organization demic has reached a very and the Oregon Coalition concerning level and we for the Responsible Use of need to engage everyone Meds will hold a summit in the community to help in Seaside later this month solve it.” to address the abuse of In February, Koreishi opioids. Dr. Safina Koreish met with U.S. Surgeon The event will bring General Dr. Vivek Mur- together members of the thy to discuss the opioid medical community, pharmacies, epidemic and will share the informa- educators, law enforcement, public tion she learned with the community health and the community . at the summit. “Opioid overdose kills more The summit will be from 8:30 people every year than motor vehi- a.m. to 4:30 p.m. April 28 and The Daily Astorian The Daily Astorian Clatsop County’s unemployment rate in March was 4.5 percent, the state Employment Department reported. The county’s seasonally adjusted rate was down slightly from the pre- vious month (4.6 percent), and even more from the year prior (5.3 percent). Oregon’s unemployment rate fell to a record low 4.5 percent in March. The U.S. rate was 5 percent. . March Feb. 1-yr. In March, the county added 100 Area 2016 2016 ago jobs, 80 fewer than expected, leav- ing seasonally adjusted nonfarm pay- Clatsop 4.5 4.6 5.3 roll employment at 17,760. That level 6 6.2 6.9 was 160 more than the year prior, for a Columbia growth rate of nearly 1 percent. 4.8 5 5.4 Through March, food manufac- Tillamook turing cut 50 jobs, and retail trade 40. 4.5 4.8 5.7 Leisure and hospitality added 170 Oregon positions. Over the past year, retail 5 4.9 5.5 trade (130) and leisure and hospitality U.S. (80) added the most jobs, while manu- *Preliminary, seasonaly adjusted rates. facturing lost 60 and state government Source: Oregon Employment Department another 40. Jobless rates for March * Daily Astorian graphic Columbia County Columbia County’s seasonally adjusted unemployment rate in March was 6 percent, down slightly from the previous month (6.2 percent) and even more from the previous year (6.9 percent). In March, the county added 100 jobs, 60 more than expected, leaving seasonally adjusted nonfarm payroll employment at 10,490, a growth rate of 1.2 percent over the year prior. Through March, trade, transporta- tion and utilities gained 30 jobs, along with 20 in professional and business services and 30 in local government education. Over the past year, man- ufacturing added 30 jobs, and leisure and hospitality another 30, while con- struction cut 50 positions. Tillamook County Tillamook County’s season- ally adjusted unemployment rate in March was 4.8 percent, down slightly from the previous month (5 percent) and even more from the previous year (5.4 percent). In March, the county added 80 jobs, 20 more than expected, leav- ing nonfarm payroll employment at 8,880, 60 more than the year prior. Through March, food manu- facturing added 30 jobs, and lei- sure and hospitality another 70. Over the past year, manufactur- ing added 80 positions, and retail trade another 40, while the finan- cial industry dropped 30. Clatskanie mayor’s husband sentenced to years of probation include experts from across Ore- gon to discuss opioid prescribing, overdose and addiction. It will have breakout sessions including health care professionals, law enforcement and the general community. The intended outcome of the event is to identify the challenges and solutions for reducing prescrip- tion drug abuse, misuse and over- dose, and to draft community action plans. Registration is open at www. colpachealth.org and www.orcrm. org. The cost will be $25 per per- son, including breakfast, lunch and materials. Scholarships will be available. Banks, Grand Ronde tribes sign agreement to keep Braves logo Associated Press Associated Press PORTLAND — The husband of Clatskanie’s mayor has pleaded guilty to public indecency charges for exposing himself at a drive-thru cof- fee stand. Sixty-four-year-old Raymond Pohl was sen- tenced Tuesday to three years of probation and ordered to complete a sex offender treatment program. He previously pleaded not guilty to 30 counts of indecent exposure, but 28 counts were dropped as part of a plea deal. Court documents say Pohl exposed his gen- itals repeatedly to an employee at the coffee stand for two years until September 2015. The victim had told police the incidents were unso- licited and unwanted. KGW-TV reported a statement from the victim read in court Tues- day says she’s faced threats from the public after coming forward. Pohl is the husband of Clatskanie Mayor Diane Pohl and a former member of the city’s planning commission. BANKS — Of¿ cials with the Confederated Tribes of Grand Ronde and the Banks School District have signed an agreement to keep the Braves logo and mascot in schools. The Oregonian reported that Banks High School will be allowed to continue using the Braves name, but will adopt a tribe-designed mascot, remove any of the old logos and incor- porate a Grand Ronde-crafted Native American history curric- ulum into social studies classes. Banks is about 60 miles from the Grand Ronde headquarters. The state Department of Education published rules in January allowing the 14 high schools in Oregon that have Native American mascots to secure permission from one of Oregon’s nine tribes in order to keep the names. Marcola, Philomath and Roseburg have also sent infor- mation to the state indicating they are working with a tribe. The Warrenton-Hammond School District is discussing whether to remove all Native American imagery from the district’s Warrior-themed mas- cot. The district had pursued talks with the Grand Ronde, but Superintendent Mark Jef- fery recommended not going through the process to keep a mascot some ¿ nd offensive. 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