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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 administration. So far, more than 30 employers have signed up to participate in this event, and the job f...

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 opened earlier as a pilot project to test their capacity. "We know there is a lot of pent-up demand fro...

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 unemployment benefits before their scheduled end on Sept. 4. "The pandemic-related federal programs have cr...