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Legislative Affairs
Oregon Legislation
During the Oregon legislative session, our Chapter publishes monthly updates, which identify bills pending before the Oregon Legislature that may impact Oregon employers.
You can also learn about pending and enacted Oregon legislation on the Oregon State Legislature home page. The page includes links to the Oregon Revised Statutes. Another very helpful first step is to review How An Idea Becomes Law.
Make a Difference – SHRM HRVoice
SHRM’s HRVoice program is a great way to help change the face of employment law, both statewide and nationally. We all complain about employment laws we don’t like. We all wish that the law would change in desired ways. As the HR Voice page will tell you, you don’t need to be a political expert. HR Voice is for political novices and seasoned professionals alike and is nonpartisan. So stop grumbling . . . and do something about it.
Once you have entered your membership number and accessed the HRVoice web page, you can learn about important legislation now at issue, obtain the names of your legislators, and access ready-to-send form letters voicing your support or opposition. If the members of our chapter and other chapters around the state get together on an issue, we can make a huge difference in Oregon’s employment laws. With over 160,000 members, our membership in SHRM can help make great strides on the national level. Let’s all work together to prevent undesirable laws, and promote new legislation that will improve our ability to manage the workforce of our employers.
SHRM Legislative Information on the Web
SHRM offers some great resources for chapter members who want to learn about current human resources legislation. The links below will access a large volume of valuable and up-to-date information. Because most of this information is available only to SHRM members, you will need to have your membership number handy when you access many of these sites:
· Federal Affairs. This page includes links to a large variety of information about developments in federal legislation. These topics include the list of legislative resources, hot links and topics, fact sheets and policy and position statements.
· State-by-State Legislative Information. This page describes some of the pending legislation in Oregon and other states.
· Washington, DC & State Insider. This is SHRM's monthly update of legislative developments on a national and state level.