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In response to Oregon's urgent statewide need to fill health care positions, the Oregon Employment Department and WorkSource Oregon are hosting a statewide virtual job fair 'Hiring Heroes in Health Care' from 11:30 a.m. – 1 p.m., Wed., Oct. 6. With about 15,000 job vacancies in health care across the state, the goal of the job fair is to fill openings in direct health care and other positions that support the health care industry, like food service, facilities and business admin...

Most WorkSource Oregon offices reopen to help job seekers August 02 2021 State says 35 of the 39 offices now accept in-person appointments for job matching and skills training. The Employment Department has reopened a total of 35 WorkSource Oregon centers in its push to help as many people as possible obtain jobs or training before federal unemployment benefits expire Sept. 4. Most of the 39 centers reopened Monday, Aug. 2. A few on the Oregon coast, Southern and Eastern Oregon open...

They may not be terminating pandemic unemployment benefits like their GOP peers, but Democratic governors are also prodding Americans to go back to work amid a surging number of job openings. And so is President Joe Biden.

Most Oregonians receiving unemployment benefits will soon have to once again prove that they are looking for jobs.

Oregon Employment Department to reinstate work search rules But acting director says Oregon does not plan early end to extra federal unemployment benefits. Work search requirements will resume in stages for more than 100,000 Oregon workers who receive unemployment benefits, now that the economic downturn triggered by the coronavirus pandemic is easing. But unlike more than 20 states — all of them with Republican governors — Oregon has no plans to stop supplemental federal unemploy...

MEDFORD, Ore. – The Rogue Valley saw an increase in employment in March. According to the Oregon Employment Department, Jackson County saw an increase of over 1,700 jobs in March. In Josephine County, there was an increase of nearly 300 jobs. Both counties saw the biggest increase in the leisure and hospitality industry. Jackson county credits over 1,200 jobs to the industry, there are about 120 jobs in the industry in Josephine County. Despite a large number of employers hiring not everyone ...

MEDFORD, Ore. —Oregon added over 20,000 jobs in the month of March. The Oregon Employment Department says employment rose by 20,100 jobs last month. This is Oregon’s largest monthly gain since July. The industry that added the most jobs was, leisure and hospitality with 14,000 jobs. Oregon’s Regional Economist for Jackson County, Guy Tauer says vaccine roll-out and loosened restrictions for businesses are a big factor. “Improving trends and outlook for the pandemic I would say is creati...

(KPTV) - Despite high unemployment around the state, many Oregon businesses are looking to hire. According to the Oregon Employment Department, there were 46,000 job vacancies during the summer, and many companies are still looking to fill vacancies. "We have seen that theres been strong hiring throughout the fall in construction and theres retail hiring and office jobs that people are looking for talented employees to come on," said Gail Krumenauer, an economist with the Oregon Employment Depa...