Labor advocates and firefighter representatives told members of Oregon’s Management-Labor Advisory Committee that pending legislation to expand the types of cancers that are presumed to arise out of employment is about fairness and equality as much as anything else.
Opponents, meanwhile, told members of the advisory panel that there is no scientific evidence to support expanding the list of cancers covered by the presumption. During a meeting Friday they asked that MLAC members not endorse Legislative Concept 96 without good evidence proving a causal link between firefighting and t...
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