They join a citywide effort among grocery store employees demanding increased pay and better safety precautions during the pandemic When the coronavirus pandemic spurred citywide closures in early March, New Seasons Market provided its employees with “Tha ...
21 Aug 2020 - Jessica Pollard
The reckoning of Portland’s service industry continues with @86dlistpdx, where more than 70 businesses have been accused of fostering hostile workplaces On July 7, Instagram account @86dlistpdx appeared and began exposing allegations of abuse, harassment ...
11 Aug 2020 - Sarah Hansell
Many employers in Oregon are sending healthy workers in for COVID-19 testing when a coworker gets sick. Public health officials wish they’d stop. Debbie Lamberger said it’s becoming a regular occurrence: Coworkers arrive in a group of cars at one of Orego ...
18 Jul 2020 - Christen McCurdy
Anjeanette Brown lives in Portland and works in Gresham. For about a year, now, she’s been a waitress for a local restaurant that is part of a chain, and has worked with the parent company for 10 years, off and on. Prior to taking her current position, Br ...
30 Jan 2015 - Christen McCurdy
Despite the 24-hour nonstop work ethic of this digital age, employees aren’t machines. They have families, children, unexpected life events and sometimes they get sick. Unfortunately, too many in our workforce are unable to take a day or two away from wor ...
30 Jan 2015 - SR editorial board