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<b><span style="font-size:15.0pt">Commissioner Brad Avakian<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-size:15.0pt">Bureau of Labor & Industries<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:16.0pt">Press Release<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">For Immediate Distribution<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b>October 30, 2012<o:p></o:p></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">CONTACT: Bob Estabrook, 503-709-0730<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><b><span style="font-size:16.0pt">BOLI Warns Employers: Don’t Waste Money on Required Posters<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
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<i><span style="color:black">2013 editions of all employment posters available free from BOLI<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
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<b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:black">PORTLAND –
</span></b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:black">Oregon’s Bureau of Labor and Industries (BOLI) is warning employers throughout the state to beware of solicitations that they receive offering required employment posters
for sale. BOLI’s Technical Assistance for Employers (TA) Program, which provides a range of resources and educational seminars to Oregon employers, provides online access to all required posters as well as selling low-cost composites for easy workplace posting.</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif""><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black">“The last thing that Oregon employers need is to get swindled by these operations that want to charge $80 for posters that you can obtain for free from the enforcement agencies,” said BOLI Commissioner Brad Avakian.
“Our Technical Assistance for Employers staff goes out of its way to collect links to the full range of required posters and make them available to all Oregon employers, just by visiting our website.”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">In addition to the basic, printable copies <a href="http://www.oregon.gov/boli/TA/Pages/Req_Post.aspx">
available online</a>t, BOLI offers low-cost composites of the various postings required for Oregon employers. Versions in English and Spanish are available, both for smaller employers not covered by the Oregon Family Leave Act and federal Family and Medical
Leave Act, and for larger employers who need the full-size eight-in-one. BOLI’s
<a href="http://www.oregon.gov/boli/TA/docs/TA-POF.pdf">composite posters cost just $10</a> each, plus shipping.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">“The best place for employers to get information about legal requirements is from the agency that enforces the law,” said Jennifer Germundson, TA Program Manager. “Employers aren’t required to buy our inexpensive composite posters, but
it’s a very convenient way to meet your obligations and not pay the inflated prices of commercial vendors.”<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="color:black;mso-fareast-language:EN-US">BOLI TA empowers Oregon employers through educational seminars and other resources that promote legal compliance, including TA’s
<a href="http://apps.oregon.gov/Applications/PDFDownload/BOLI/BOLI-TA_28th_Annual_Conference_2012.pdf">
28<sup>th</sup> Annual Employment Law Conference</a>, coming up in November. Visit
</span><span style="color:blue;mso-fareast-language:EN-US"><a href="http://www.oregon.gov/BOLI">www.oregon.gov/BOLI</a>
</span><span style="color:black;mso-fareast-language:EN-US">for more information about all of BOLI’s work to support Oregon workers, local employers and a stronger economy.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoFooter" align="center" style="text-align:center"><i><span style="font-size:11.0pt">The mission of the Bureau of Labor and Industries is to protect employment rights, advance employment opportunities, and protect access to housing and public accommodations
free from discrimination.<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
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