ODOT will lay off close to 500 employees, cut road maintenance, fire prevention
Information from the Oregon Capital Chronicle is included in this report.
Oregon Department of Transportation officials will lay off almost five hundred state employees at the end of the month after a transportation package failed to pass the state legislature last week.
Gov. Tina Kotek announced the layoff of 483 employees Monday in a statement. Employees were notified by phone call or email at noon Monday, two hours before Kotek made the public announcement.
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