MLAC Committee Members at Impasse on COVID Talks, Offer Dual Recommendations

After multiple hours-long meetings over the past several weeks, members of Oregon’s Management-Labor Advisory Committee failed to reach a consensus recommendation Friday regarding COVID-19 protections for employees in addition to the current workers’ compensation system. Despite four hours' worth of discussion, including multiple intermissions to allow MLAC members to caucus, management and labor advocates announced they had reached an impasse, as both sides agreed to write up their own recommendations to submit to Gov. Kate Brown’s office and state legislators ...