May 25 2021 Bureau of Labor & Industries Commissioner Val Hoyle hires third-party investigator following resignation of Civil Rights administrator Carol Johnson. The state agency tasked with scrutinizing unlawful employment practices is now facing its own outside investigation — following allegations that the public workplace is rife with racism. The third-party probe of the Oregon Bureau of Labor & Industries follows the sudden departure of Carol Johnson, the chief administrator for the agency's Civil Rights Division, who says she was forced to resign due to a hostile and bigoted w...