(TNS) — The Oregon Employment Department’s new technology system will go live March 4, about 15 years after the state received federal funding to replace its obsolete technology. The $106 million ...

A year ago, the Oregon Employment Department answered almost every call in less than 10 minutes, according to agency data. In 2023, however, most callers are on hold for at least 10 minutes and 20% ...

PORTLAND, Ore — Oregon is still deciding whether to apply for the federal government's new assistance for unemployed workers. Through FEMA's lost wages supplemental payment assistance people would get ...

Kay Erickson, the head of Oregon’s Employment Department, has resigned at Gov. Kate Brown's request. The OED faces a backlog of tens of thousands of unprocessed unemployment cases. Oregon Paid Family ...

SALEM, Ore. — As the state responded to a surge in unemployment claims due to the near-total shutdown of the economy brought on by the pandemic, overtime costs at the Oregon Employment Department ...

The Labor Department will release its numbers on September hiring and unemployment next Thursday, a month and a half late, ...

Oregon’s new secretary of state said Thursday that her office will conduct yet another audit of the Oregon Employment Department, which suffered a catastrophic failure to pay jobless claims during the ...

On some other day, picking a vendor to modernize its ancient computer system would be the biggest news from the Oregon Employment Department – and perhaps the state. After all, the agency’s failure to ...

A year into the pandemic, and the steepest economic fall in Oregon history, placing a phone call to the Oregon Employment Department remains an onerous chore. Jobless workers spend an average of 70 ...

The U.S. Labor Department's statistical agency should prioritize the production of November employment and inflation reports ...