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Oregon sets sessions on rules change in jobless benefi ts
By PETER WONG
Oregon Capital Bureau
SALEM — State offi cials have
scheduled six sessions, starting
Thursday, Oct. 14, for the public
and businesses to weigh in on a rule
allowing workers to keep some unem-
ployment benefi ts even if they have
barriers to their returning to work.
The temporary rule would let
some workers continue to receive
benefi ts despite their limited avail-
ability for work. Among the covered
situations are caring for a sick family
member and the lack of child care.
Under the rule, workers would
have to seek alternate work if they
are available at least one shift per day
and 40 hours per week.
“This may require people to seek
a diff erent type of job, but one they
have the skills and experience to do,”
the Oregon Employment Depart-
ment said in its announcement of
the webinars.
The temporary rule follows after
changes expired Sept. 26 to the long-
standing requirements for people
to be able to work and available to
work. Those requirements were rein-
stated on Sept. 26, 90 days after the
end of an emergency declaration that
suspended them during the corona-
virus pandemic.
The department will conduct
all six webinars by registration at
unemployment.oregon.gov/webi-
nars. Sessions will run 90 minutes
but may end earlier if there are no
further comments.
Worker-focused sessions are
planned at 2:30 p.m. Oct. 14; noon
Oct. 26, and 6 p.m. Nov. 9.
Employer-focused sessions are
planned at 6 p.m. Oct. 20; noon Nov.
3, and 9 a.m. Nov. 17.
Simultaneous translation will
be off ered in Spanish, Vietnamese,
Russian and Cantonese.
In addition to helping some
workers offset part of their lost
income with unemployment bene-
fi ts, an agency statement said the
rule would help communities where
a large number of people have faced
restricted work schedules because
of the pandemic. Among them are
people whose underlying health
conditions may require them to limit
their exposure to potential carriers of
the COVID-19 virus.
Proposed legislation pending in
Congress, sponsored by Oregon U.S.
Sen. Ron Wyden, D., and others,
would require states to allow more
fl exibility in letting some workers
retain a portion of unemployment
benefi ts if they are otherwise able to
obtain alternate work.
Redmond School Board secures legal State workers lose one
counsel to oppose pandemic mandates round in fi ght against
vaccine mandates
By NICOLE BALES
The Bulletin
REDMOND — The Redmond
School Board will hire a Portland-based
attorney to oppose state mask and vacci-
nation mandates that have been leveled
on K-12 schools to slow the spread of
COVID-19.
The board voted 4-1 during a special
meeting Oct. 5 to hire Thenell Law
Group to represent the school district.
Shawn Hartfield,
the board’s chair, said
she is not ready to lose
employees needed to
keep Redmond schools
open as a result of the
vaccine mandate.
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Students at Sage Elementary School, Redmond, walk home from school with their
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something,” she said.
parents on Oct. 4, 2021. Seven Redmond school bus drivers called in sick, forcing
The action follows
a resolution the board approved in late the district to cancel some routes.
August opposing the mandates. The
board demanded local control over will cost the district $200 to $350 per that kind of expense, is that really how
pandemic-related safety measures and hour, and if the retainer is exhausted we want our district money to be spent?
vowed it would take legal action against during the case, the school board may I’m not comfortable at all with that kind
of bill,” Goodrich said. “I’m not sure
the mandates and the use of medical and be asked to replenish funds.
Hartfield said the district’s attor- how this benefi ts our kids.”
religious exemptions.
In September, the board voted against
Gov. Kate Brown announced the ney advised the board to seek outside
mask mandate in late July for everyone counsel for the issue. Money to pay for its Superintendent Charan Cline’s
in K-12 schools. The vaccine mandate the legal services will come out of the recommendation to fi re Tori Caudell, an
announced in August, gives K-12 district’s contingency funds, which are elementary school teacher at Terrebonne
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The Oregonian
SALEM — A group
of 25 health care workers,
firefighters and paramed-
ics from across Oregon lost
a round last week when the
Oregon Court of Appeals
refused to intervene to stop
a state mandate requiring
them to get fully vaccinated
against COVID-19 by Oct.
18.
The ruling, issued Oct.
5 is the fi rst in at least eight
lawsuits seeking to over-
turn the authority of Gov.
Kate Brown and the Oregon
Health Authority to force
certain categories of work-
ers to get their jabs or else
risk losing their jobs.
Statewide, the gover-
nor has said hundreds of
thousands of health care
workers, K-12 educa-
tors and state executive
branch employees — from
Oregon State Police troop-
ers to Brown’s office staff
— must get fully vacci-
nated unless they qualify
for medical or religious
exemptions. Many medi-
cal experts argue higher
vaccination rates are the
best tool for ending the
pandemic. Just 60% of
Oregonians of all ages are
fully vaccinated, and some
experts say that might need
to reach 90% to stamp out
the delta variant.
Since early September,
more than 70 workers who
fall under the mandate have
signed on as plaintiff s in the
eight lawsuits. Among their
arguments: The governor
and state public health offi -
cials have overstepped their
authority; their right to shun
vaccines under the First
Amendment’s freedom of
expression clause is under
attack; and they’ll suffer
irreparable harm if they’re
fi red or the vaccine causes
side effects days or years
down the road. Some also
argue they should be allowed
to wear masks and get tested
once a week instead of
undergoing vaccinations.
The Court of Appeals
ruling in the fi rst case —
Oregon Medical Workers
for Medical Freedom and
Mandate Free Oregon vs.
the Oregon Health Authority
— doesn’t necessarily mean
the fi ght for those plaintiff s is
over. They still can continue
and are likely to continue to
pursue their cases, primar-
ily in circuit courts, based
on diff erent arguments. But
a key contention — that
the Oregon Health Author-
ity didn’t have the power to
impose the vaccine mandate
— was cast aside by the
Appeals Court as inaccurate.
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