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Tim O’Connell is a partner of Stoel Rives in the labor & employment and telecommunications law sectors. His practice includes collective bargaining, unfair labor practice and representation proceedings before the NLRB and public sector agencies, labor arbitrations, equal employment and discrimination cases before administrative agencies and courts, wrongful discharge litigation, wage and hour counseling and litigation, and general personnel management. He has also been actively involved in the rulemaking process, both drafting and negotiating new rules and leading litigation challenging agency action.

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More than three years after the COVID-19 pandemic began, many healthcare institutions continue to have difficulty fully staffing all their facilities.  In response, both the Oregon and Washington legislatures enacted new laws that will change how hospitals plan for and staff their facilities.  While both states will send shockwaves throughout their hospitals, the approaches differ