Oregon close to statewide hiring freeze

Portland Business Journal:

The state of Oregon is close to implementing a statewide hiring freeze.

The state may also suspend new enrollments in the Oregon Health Plan and suspend “all non-critical expenditures” in all agencies, as per the request of legislative leaders.

Sen. Richard Devlin, a Tualatin Democrat, joined representatives Peter Buckley and Dennis Richardson in recommending that Gov. John Kitzhaber enact the freeze and other moves “in order to generate additional savings as soon as possible.” Buckley, an Ashland Democrat, and Richardson, a Central Point Republican, are the House’s joint co-chairs of the Ways and Means Committee along with Devlin...

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