{"id":34898,"date":"2025-07-03T09:08:14","date_gmt":"2025-07-03T09:08:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/34898\/"},"modified":"2025-07-03T09:08:14","modified_gmt":"2025-07-03T09:08:14","slug":"hundreds-of-oregon-department-of-transportation-workers-will-receive-layoff-notices-next-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/34898\/","title":{"rendered":"Hundreds of Oregon Department of Transportation workers will receive layoff notices next week"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/HLJSVZ3MKJAGRHZJKKXYICEORQ.jpg\"  fetchpriority=\"high\" loading=\"eager\" alt=\"aerial view of two slow plows headed up a snow covered road with snow covered fir trees in the distance\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"article__image-content\" height=\"600\" width=\"300\"\/>Oregon Department of Transportation crews work to clear the Santiam Junction during the winter storm in January 2024. The agency is preparing for mass layoffs after lawmakers this year failed to pass a major transportation package.Oregon Department of Transportation<\/p>\n<p class=\"article__paragraph article__paragraph--left\" id=\"NFI3LJPPG5HKJBBKBKAZTO5VXA\">The Oregon Department of Transportation is preparing to lay off hundreds of workers after lawmakers\u2019 plans to pass a comprehensive transportation package <a href=\"https:\/\/www.oregonlive.com\/politics\/2025\/06\/in-major-loss-for-democrats-lawmakers-advance-ultra-slim-transportation-bill-with-no-new-dollars-for-cities-counties-transit.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.oregonlive.com\/politics\/2025\/06\/in-major-loss-for-democrats-lawmakers-advance-ultra-slim-transportation-bill-with-no-new-dollars-for-cities-counties-transit.html\">imploded in the final days<\/a> of the legislative session that ended Friday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article__paragraph article__paragraph--left\" id=\"L3GOX7UHXJAVLHQDQ7VZNW6TXU\">More than 600 agency workers will likely lose their jobs in the coming weeks, Director Kris Strickler said in an agency-wide email sent shortly after midnight Saturday. That announcement arrived one hour after lawmakers <a href=\"https:\/\/www.oregonlive.com\/politics\/2025\/06\/lawmakers-close-out-2025-session-with-housing-mental-health-wins-botched-transportation-package.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.oregonlive.com\/politics\/2025\/06\/lawmakers-close-out-2025-session-with-housing-mental-health-wins-botched-transportation-package.html\">ended the session<\/a> without directing more money to the agency, which for months said it would be forced to lay off workers without an influx of funding.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article__paragraph article__paragraph--center skimlinks\">If you purchase a product or register for an account through a link on our site, we may receive compensation. By using this site, you consent to our <a href=\"https:\/\/www.advancelocal.com\/advancelocalUserAgreement\/user-agreement.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">User Agreement<\/a> and agree that your clicks, interactions, and personal information may be collected, recorded, and\/or stored by us and social media and other third-party partners in accordance with our <a href=\"https:\/\/www.advancelocal.com\/advancelocalUserAgreement\/privacy-policy.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">Privacy Policy.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Oregon Department of Transportation crews work to clear the Santiam Junction during the winter storm in January 2024.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":34899,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[51,50,52],"class_list":{"0":"post-34898","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"tag-headlines","9":"tag-news","10":"tag-top-stories"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/114788519409070464","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34898","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=34898"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34898\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/34899"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34898"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34898"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34898"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}