Oregon’s Occupational Safety and Health Division, or Oregon OSHA, is updating farmworker housing rules that some advocates have said are “alarmingly outdated.” The requirements come after years of ...

PORTLAND Ore. (KPTV) - Oregon farm workers may be looking forward to better living conditions, but it’ll come at a cost that some farmers say they’re not prepared to pay. The Oregon Occupational ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. SALEM, Ore. (AP) — Oregon adopted an ...

We are often bumfuzzled by the logic used by regulators, but a proposal by Oregon’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration mandating a minimum of 500 feet between livestock barns and farmworker ...

In 2023, Oregon lawmakers approved spending $5 million to improve on-farm housing with grants. The Oregon Department of Agriculture awarded 108 grants to 66 different farm operations around the state ...

More than 12,000 Oregon farmworkers lived in housing provided by their employers last year. But the quality of that housing, in some cases, did not live up to the standards of other Oregon rentals.