Portland's imminent return-to-office order faces backlash from city workers

PORTLAND, Ore. (KOIN) — Portland leaders and workers have once again weighed in on the looming return-to-office mandate for city employees.

Soon after Mayor Keith Wilson took office in January, he urged 700 city managers and supervisors to return to in-person work full-time by April 7. Portland City Council’s Labor & Workforce Development Committee discussed the upcoming change, a controversial one for the many workers who pivoted to remote work during the COVID-19 pandemic, at a meeting on Thursday.