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Concerning employers' information reporting for purposes of unemployment compensation.
Concerning paid family and medical leave rates.
Concerning access to medical care in workers' compensation.
Adding discretion to wage enforcement actions.
Concerning the department of labor and industries' authority to enact rules related to regulating asbestos training.
Requiring public employers under chapter 41.80 RCW to provide employee information to exclusive bargaining representatives.
Concerning immigrant worker protections.
Concerning unemployment insurance benefits for workers separated from employment as a result of employer-initiated layoffs or workforce reductions.
Concerning paid family and medical leave rates.
Recognizing posttraumatic stress disorder as an occupational disease for county coroners, examiners, and investigative personnel.
Establishing a child care workforce standards board.
Prohibiting noncompetition agreements and clarifying nonsolicitation agreements.
Allowing collective bargaining over contributions for certain supplemental retirement benefits.
Ensuring that work on fire protection sprinkler systems is performed by licensed contractors and certified fitters.
Concerning contributions in the state paid family and medical leave program.
Concerning notice requirements of identified hazards at construction worksites.
Prohibiting employers from microchipping employees.
Enforcing plumbing contractor requirements.
Revised for engrossed: Concerning the laid-off employees act.
Concerning notice to striking workers applying for unemployment insurance benefits of potential overpayment assessment upon receipt of retroactive wages.
Promoting transparency in certain industrial insurance rate increases.
Modernizing methods of communications by the department of labor and industries.
Concerning pregnancy-related accommodations.
Establishing a pilot program for posttraumatic stress disorder treatment and research.
Concerning misclassification in the finishing trades on public works projects.
Concerning language access providers' collective bargaining.
Requiring state registered apprenticeships in the building and construction trades to provide behavioral health and wellness training.
Establishing labor protections for domestic workers.
Adopting national standards for factory built housing and commercial structures.
Concerning collective bargaining for employees not covered by the national labor relations act.
Concerning the recovery of unpaid wages.
Concerning collective bargaining for certain employees who are enrolled in academic programs at public institutions of higher education.
Requiring certain wages in public works contracts to be at least the prevailing wage in effect when the work is performed.
Revised for 1st substitute: Expanding the definition of uniformed personnel regarding correctional officers for purposes of interest arbitration.
Requiring certain wages in public works contracts to be at least the prevailing wage in effect when the work is performed.
Adding discretion to wage enforcement actions.
Modernizing methods of communications by the department of labor and industries.
Concerning workers' wages and benefits in the construction industry.
Promoting transparency in certain industrial insurance rate increases.
Requiring notices to employees when electronic monitoring is used to assist employers conducting performance evaluations.
Concerning consumer protection to prevent exploitation of Washington businesses through abusive litigation practices.
Establishing the state security guards industry standards board.
Concerning access to medical care in workers' compensation.
Concerning electronic notices and orders in certain unemployment compensation cases.
Allowing bargaining over matters related to the use of artificial intelligence.
Making collective bargaining for school districts subject to the open public meetings act.
Concerning workers' compensation benefits.
Removing qualifiers related to the presumption of occupational disease for heart problems.
Exempting certain agricultural activities from mass layoff notice requirements.
Including physical and occupational therapists as attending providers for workers' compensation.
Reducing the standard workweek from 40 hours to 32 hours.
Enforcing plumbing contractor requirements.
Concerning language access providers' collective bargaining.
Concerning collective bargaining for state employee job classifications.
Concerning comparison factors that must be considered in interest arbitration for correctional employees regarding wages, hours, and conditions of employment.
Placing agricultural employees under the jurisdiction of the public employment relations commission for the purpose of collective bargaining.
Expanding the definition of law enforcement personnel regarding correctional officers for purposes of interest arbitration.
Concerning the department of labor and industries' authority to enact rules related to regulating asbestos training.
Concerning paid family medical leave benefits.
Directing the department of labor and industries to adopt rules clarifying the scope of work for HVAC/refrigeration specialty electricians for ductless mini-split systems.
Making technical clarifications by defining "applicant" to support fair and consistent pay transparency enforcement.
Expanding eligibility for voluntary workers' compensation settlements.
Allowing self-insurers to accept certain industrial insurance claims
Facilitating the use of a department of labor and industries-approved, application-based, third-party recording platform to record independent medical exams.
Requiring building and construction contractors to use a skilled and trained workforce for performing work at certain hazardous facilities.
Allowing agricultural employees to voluntarily waive overtime requirements for up to 15 workweeks in a calendar year.
Establishing a statewide boiler operator certification.
Providing labor market protections for domestic workers.
Revised for 1st substitute: Expanding access to records for the purposes of enforcing prevailing wage laws.
Concerning regulation of transportation network companies during large-scale events.
Concerning students' eligibility to receive unemployment insurance benefits.
Allowing for corrections to wage and salary disclosures.
Authorizing agricultural employers to select 26 weeks a year to employ workers for up to 50 hours a week before overtime applies.
Creating a wage replacement program for certain Washington workers excluded from unemployment insurance.
Concerning labor standards.
Regulating the use of self-service checkout stations.
Concerning federally approved apprenticeship programs operated by tribal governments.
Concerning part-time workers in the unemployment insurance system.
Allowing HVAC/refrigeration electricians to perform certain electrical work on ductless mini-split HVAC systems.
Addressing technology used by employers in the workplace.
Concerning paid family leave premium collection for dockworkers.
Prohibiting deductions for credit card transaction processing fees from employee tips.
Expanding access to grants within the paid family and medical leave insurance program for small school districts.
Authorizing agricultural employers to select 12 weeks a year to employ workers for up to 50 hours a week before overtime applies.
Providing labor market protections for domestic workers.
Concerning the prevailing wages on public works.
Concerning factors which are considered in interest arbitration for adult family home providers.
Concerning job postings requiring driver's licenses.
Protecting military spouses from employment discrimination.
Addressing mass layoffs, relocations, and terminations.
Granting interest arbitration to certain parks and recreation commission employees.
Concerning industrial insurance coverage for posttraumatic stress disorders affecting correctional facility workers.
Concerning labor standards and the Washington minimum wage act.
Expanding the definition of uniformed personnel to all law enforcement officers employed by a city, town, or county.
Concerning the duties of industrial insurance self-insured employers and third-party administrators.
Creating a narrow exemption from overtime provisions for certain nonprofits and small businesses.
Expanding pregnancy-related accommodations.
Concerning public employee collective bargaining processes.
Expanding access to leave and safety accommodations to include workers who are victims of hate crimes or bias incidents.
Allowing for corrections to wage and salary disclosures.
Concerning unemployment insurance benefits for striking or lockout workers.
Concerning collective bargaining by fish and wildlife officers.
Concerning the duties of industrial insurance self-insured employers and third-party administrators.
Concerning the salaries of ferry system collective bargaining units.
Concerning workplace violence in health care settings.
Expanding protections for workers in the state paid family and medical leave program.
Reorganizing and adding subchapter headings to public employees' collective bargaining statutes.
Concerning employment loss due to businesses closing or mass layoffs.
Concerning access to personnel records.
Concerning the installation of transportation electrification infrastructure.
Protecting employees from coercion in the workplace based on immigration status.
Allowing a specialty electrician to continue working under a valid specialty certificate of competency while enrolled in a journey level apprenticeship program.
Concerning transportation network companies.
Concerning wages for journeypersons in high-hazard facilities.
Concerning law enforcement personnel grievance arbitration procedures.
Revised for 1st substitute: Concerning paid family and medical leave premium collection for dockworkers.
Concerning the safety and health of working minors.
Allowing the use of paid sick leave to prepare for or participate in certain immigration proceedings.
Concerning workers' compensation benefits.
Removing the exclusion from interest arbitration of Washington management service employees at the department of corrections.
Concerning call center retention.
Concerning employer requirements for driving.
Expanding minimum requirements for electrical inspectors to include certain out-of-state experience.
Revised for 1st substitute: Expanding the definition of uniformed personnel to all law enforcement officers employed by a city, town, county, or governing body of a municipal airport operating under the provisions of chapter 14.08 RCW.
Concerning collective bargaining for agricultural cannabis workers.
Concerning meal and rest breaks for hospital workers.
Expanding the definition of "interested party" for the purposes of prevailing wage laws.
Expanding protections for applicants and employees under the Washington fair chance act.
Reviewing state restrictions affecting students participating in secondary career and technical education programs and other state-approved career pathways.
Exempting exclusive bargaining representatives for department of corrections employees from certain provisions related to coalition bargaining.
Concerning restrictions on the working conditions and hours of sixteen- and seventeen-year olds.
Modifying the responsible bidder criteria for public works projects.
Concerning workplace standards and requirements applicable to employers of isolated employees.
Establishing department authority to ensure payment is received from the self-insured employer after a self-insured group or municipal employer has their self-insurer certification withdrawn.
Concerning Washington state ferries captains.
Concerning state legislative employee collective bargaining.
Protecting the rights of workers to refrain from attending meetings or listening to their employer's speech on political or religious matters.
Concerning paid sick leave.
Defining an employee of a health care facility for purposes of mandatory overtime provisions.
Including protected classes in the Washington equal pay and opportunities act.
Concerning construction crane safety.
Protecting the health care of workers participating in a labor dispute.
Concerning sanitary conditions for construction workers who menstruate or express milk.
Creating safer working conditions in adult entertainment establishments.
Concerning collecting data on the H-2A worker program and from certain hand harvesters.
Clarifying employment standards for long-term care individual providers.
Eliminating certain minimum requirement equivalencies for electrical inspectors.
Concerning death benefits applicable to drivers of transportation network companies.
Aligning deputy inspector credentials with national standards.
Concerning vacation leave accrual for state employees.
Reducing the number of days that a worker's temporary total disability must continue to receive industrial insurance compensation for the day of an injury and the three-day period following the injury.
Assisting workers in recovering wages owed.
Concerning employment standards for grocery workers.
Concerning minor league baseball players subject to the terms of a collective bargaining agreement regarding employment status.
Granting interest arbitration to certain public safety telecommunicators.
Making technical corrections to plumbing supervision and trainee hours reporting.
Addressing retainage on private construction projects.
Concerning the acceptance of electronic signatures by the public employment relations commission for new organizing petitions.
Concerning workers' compensation incentives to return to work.
Concerning the timeline for issuing a citation for a violation of the Washington industrial safety and health act.
Concerning noncompetition covenants.
Concerning accrued leave for construction workers.
Adding purposes for the use of existing firefighter safety funding.
Concerning unemployment insurance benefit charging.
Removing the sunset on changes to the unemployment insurance voluntary contribution program.
Training requirements for human trafficking.
Relieving individuals from paying interest on certain unemployment insurance overpayment assessments.
Expanding access to the workers' compensation stay-at-work program through off-site light duty return to work opportunities.
Concerning prevailing wage sanctions, penalties, and debarment.
Recognizing posttraumatic stress disorder as an occupational disease for county coroners, examiners, and investigative personnel.
Adding purposes for the use of existing firefighter safety funding.
Concerning unemployment insurance benefits for striking or lockout workers.
Relieving individuals from paying interest on certain unemployment insurance overpayment assessments.
Concerning state legislative employee collective bargaining.
Reducing the impacts of mass layoffs.
Protecting the rights of workers to refrain from attending meetings or listening to their employer's speech on political or religious matters.
Concerning paid sick leave.
Concerning workplace safety and operational standards for adult entertainment establishments.
Safeguarding the public safety by protecting railroad workers.
Concerning access to personnel records.
Concerning wages for journeypersons in high-hazard facilities.
Requiring employers to reimburse employees for necessary expenditures and losses.
Revised for 1st Substitute: Concerning the prevailing wages on public works.Original: Concerning the prevailing wages and sick leave benefits for construction workers.
Extending parts of the paid family and medical leave program to employers with fewer than 50 employees.
Concerning restrictions on the working conditions and hours of sixteen- and seventeen-year olds.
Making technical corrections to plumbing supervision and trainee hours reporting.
Establishing a work group to assess the restrictions on the employment of 16 and 17 year olds.
Protecting workers displaced due to finfish aquaculture facility closure.
Concerning unemployment insurance benefits appeal procedures.
Concerning objections to apprenticeship programs.
Concerning minor league baseball players subject to the terms of a collective bargaining agreement regarding employment status.
Strengthening pay transparency requirements.
Concerning continued health benefits during paid family and medical leave for firefighters of small fire districts.
Allowing employers to screen candidates for cannabis use when hiring for certain positions involving services to persons with substance use disorder.
Establishing a pathway for qualifying to become a journey level electrician based on experience working with a small electrical contractor.
Concerning the duties of industrial insurance self-insured employers and third-party administrators.
Preserving seniority for state employees who are reemployed.
Concerning vacation leave accrual for state employees.
Safeguarding the public safety by protecting railroad workers.
Clarifying the application of the industrial welfare act and minimum wage act to airline cabin crews.
Concerning adult entertainment establishments.
Addressing salary comparisons for ferry system collective bargaining units.
Adding penalties for certain prohibited practices in chapter 49.44 RCW.
Concerning the reemployment and pension service credit of public employees separated from service due to a vaccination mandate.
Eliminating COVID-19 vaccine requirements for new or prospective employees of state agencies.
Establishing COVID-19 as an occupational disease.
Prohibiting competitor objections to new apprenticeship programs.
Concerning how the prevailing wage for public works is determined.
Concerning industrial insurance coverage for posttraumatic stress disorders affecting registered nurses.
Concerning vacation leave accrual for state employees.
Allowing certain types of maintenance experience to substitute for work experience required to be eligible to take the examination for the residential maintenance specialty electrician certificate.
Creating a separate fund for the purposes of self-insured pensions and assessments.
Concerning state electrical inspectors' salaries.
Concerning the retainage percentage withheld by prime contractors.
Authorizing agricultural employers to select 12 weeks a year to employ workers for up to 50 hours a week before overtime applies.
Concerning studying the impacts of job protection on the utilization of paid family medical leave benefits.
Concerning journey level electrician certifications of competency.
Requiring state agencies to share information to encourage economic development.
Prohibiting strikes by employees covered by the educational employment relations act and authorizing interest arbitration.
Concerning the requirements to obtain a journey level electrician certificate of competency.
Protecting and assisting Washington employers that provide access to, or benefits for, reproductive health care services.
Expanding collective bargaining for employees who are enrolled in academic programs at public institutions of higher education.
Concerning collective bargaining for resident and fellow physicians employed by certain institutions of higher education.
Adding references to contractor registration and licensing laws in workers' compensation, public works, and prevailing wage statutes.
Assessing employers for their employees' health care costs paid by the state.
Creating a wage replacement program for certain Washington workers excluded from unemployment insurance.
Requiring certain wages in public works contracts to be at least the prevailing wage in effect when the work is performed.
Creating equitable access to return-to-work opportunities in workers' compensation.
Concerning reemployment of state workers dismissed from employment due to vaccine mandates.
Concerning social insurance programs applicable to transportation network companies and drivers.
Revised for 1st Substitute: Concerning retainage requirements for private construction projects.Original: Concerning the retainage percentage withheld by prime contractors.
Concerning industrial insurance coverage for posttraumatic stress disorders affecting registered nurses.
Concerning employees' paid family or medical leave data.
Concerning the employment of individuals who lawfully consume cannabis.
Concerning fire protection sprinkler system contractors.
Concerning payments for accrued and unused sick leave for certain construction workers.
Protecting warehouse employees.
Clarifying procedures for federally recognized tribes to report standard occupational classifications or job titles of workers under the employment security act.
Expanding the farm internship program.
Requiring automated external defibrillators to be available and accessible when work is being performed on high voltage lines and equipment.
Concerning the duties of industrial insurance self-insured employers and third-party administrators.
Prohibiting unjustified employer searches of employee personal vehicles.
Concerning wage complaints.
Concerning qualifications for unemployment insurance when an individual voluntarily leaves work.
Strengthening protections for consumers in the construction industry.
Requiring public employers to provide employee information to exclusive bargaining representatives.
Defining attending provider and clarifying other provider functions for workers' compensation claims, and adding psychologists as attending providers for mental health only claims.
Concerning injured workers' rights during compelled medical examinations.
Creating a separate fund for the purposes of self-insured pensions and assessments.
Concerning hospital staffing standards.
Expanding collective bargaining for employees who are enrolled in academic programs at public institutions of higher education.
Revised for 1st Substitute: Concerning the state's ability to regulate certain industries and risk classifications to prevent musculoskeletal injuries and disorders.Original: Concerning the state's ability to regulate certain industries and risk classes to prevent musculoskeletal injuries and disorders.
Concerning job search requirements for unemployment insurance benefits.
Modifying the premium provisions of the paid family and medical leave program.
Protecting workers displaced due to finfish aquaculture facility closure.
Requiring a training and certification program for individuals who apply fire-resistant materials.
Granting Washington management service employees the right to collectively bargain.
Concerning journey level electrician certifications of competency.
Adding references to contractor registration and licensing laws in workers' compensation, public works, and prevailing wage statutes.
Concerning unemployment insurance benefits for officers of employee-owned cooperatives.
Concerning unemployment insurance benefits appeal procedures.
Addressing the purchase and distribution of insignia to manufacturers of recreational vehicles and/or park trailers.
Making changes to factory assembled structures, manufactured or mobile homes, commercial coaches, conversion vending units, medical units, recreational vehicles, and park trailers requirements, including adding board members to the factory assembled structures advisory committee.
Concerning unemployment insurance benefits for apprenticeship program participants.
Concerning removing the terms "master" and "servant" from Titles 50 and 50A.
Adding employees employed by the department of licensing who are assigned to review, process, approve, and issue driver licenses to the definition of frontline employees under the health emergency labor standards act.
Concerning rights and obligations of transportation network company drivers and transportation network companies.
Creating leave provisions for legislative service.
Providing an exception to the process for reopening a workers' compensation claim when the claimant submits a reopening application in a timely manner.
Modifying the Washington state paid family and medical leave act.
Concerning employer requirements for providing wage and salary information to applicants for employment.
Requiring policies addressing surgical smoke.
Prohibiting nondisclosure and nondisparagement provisions from employers regarding illegal acts of discrimination, harassment, retaliation, wage and hour violations, and sexual assault.
Determining monthly wages for workers' compensation.
Clarifying eligibility for the presumption for workers' compensation for all personnel working at a radiological hazardous waste facility.
Concerning unemployment insurance, family leave, and medical leave premiums.
Eliminating subprevailing wage certificates for individuals with disabilities.
Requiring an employer to reimburse employee fees when a paycheck is dishonored by nonacceptance or nonpayment.
Concerning shared reporting responsibilities for both the paid family and medical leave and the long-term services and supports trust programs to clarify that information collected from employer reports shall remain private.
Making technical cross-reference corrections in statutes governing unemployment insurance.
Concerning journey level electrician certifications of competency.
Reestablishing the underground economy task force.
Concerning attorney and witness fees in industrial insurance court appeals.
Improving worker safety and patient care in health care facilities by addressing staffing needs, overtime, meal and rest breaks, and enforcement.
Specifying that space force reserve members who are officers or employees of the state of Washington or of any county, city, or other political subdivision have access to a period of paid military leave of absence from employment.
Restoring the state's ability to address work-related musculoskeletal injuries.
Protecting the confidentiality of employees using employee assistance programs.
Concerning vacation leave accrual for public employees.
Concerning wages for journeypersons in high-hazard facilities.
Concerning qualifications for unemployment insurance when an individual voluntarily leaves work.
Safeguarding the public safety by protecting railroad workers.
Concerning collective bargaining for resident and fellow physicians employed by certain institutions of higher education.
Extending collective bargaining rights to employees of the legislative branch of state government.
Concerning injured workers' rights during independent medical examinations.
Concerning installation, maintenance, and related certification requirements for electric vehicle support equipment.
Permitting family child care providers to collectively bargain defined contribution retirement benefits.
Concerning unemployment insurance, family leave, and medical leave premiums.
Providing discretion to the director of the department of labor and industries to waive or modify penalties and violations when action is taken to avoid imminent danger of loss of life or serious injury.
Clarifying responsibilities for mandatory industrial insurance coverage for persons transporting freight.
Limiting agency authority to align with federal standards during public health emergencies.
Authorizing an agricultural employer to select any 12 weeks in a calendar year as special circumstance weeks for labor demand, during which in each of the selected 12 weeks, the agricultural employer may employ agricultural employees for up to 50 hours before the requirement to pay overtime applies under RCW 49.46.130.
Identifying and removing barriers to employment with the Washington state ferries.
Understanding the needs of farmworkers.
Concerning agricultural labor.
Concerning extended benefits in the unemployment insurance system.
Concerning unemployment insurance systems enhancements, including creating a reserve force of unemployment claim adjudicators, effective and equitable claims processing, and transparent performance metrics.
Strengthening penalty and audit tools for employer violations in unemployment insurance.
Prohibiting the deduction of payments to volunteer firefighters from unemployment insurance benefits.
Establishing wage liens.
Providing employer relief in unemployment insurance by relieving COVID-19-related benefit charges, providing contribution relief, making appropriations to rebuild the unemployment trust fund and making clarifying changes.
Providing paid administrative leave for health care workers in time of declared public health emergencies.
Prohibiting civil penalties for first-time violations of standards regulated under emergency proclamations.
Prohibiting unjustified employer searches of employee personal vehicles.
Concerning the retroactivity of overtime claims in exceptional cases.
Allowing HVAC/refrigeration electricians to perform electrical work on split ductless HVAC systems.
Concerning relief of benefit charges when discharge is a result of a gubernatorial declaration of emergency or related executive order.
Concerning unemployment insurance.
Allowing whistleblowers to bring actions on behalf of the state for violations of workplace protections.
Concerning the crime of blacklisting.
Concerning unemployment insurance claim adjudicators.
Concerning the retroactivity of overtime claims in exceptional cases.
Providing health care workers with presumptive benefits during a public health emergency.
Establishing health emergency labor standards.
Increasing worker protections.
Expanding coverage of the paid family and medical leave program.
Concerning the definition of confidential employee for the purposes of state collective bargaining.
Concerning the use of protective devices and equipment during a public health emergency.
Expanding coverage of the paid family and medical leave program.
Establishing wage liens.
Concerning extended benefits in the unemployment insurance system.
Concerning the size of the airport a municipality must control or operate for that municipality to enact minimum labor standards for employees at the airport.
Concerning volunteer firefighters.
Eliminating subminimum wage certificates for persons with disabilities.
Concerning workers' compensation claim resolution settlement agreements.
Concerning job search monitoring.
Concerning the use of social security numbers by the department of labor and industries and the employment security department.
Clarifying the continuity of employee family and medical leave rights.
Requiring electrical licensing for electrical work associated with flipping property.
Creating a task force to identify the role of the workplace in helping curb domestic violence.
Protecting temporary workers.
Concerning law enforcement personnel collective bargaining.
Requiring employers to periodically report standard occupational classifications or job titles of workers.
Creating a task force to identify the role of the workplace in helping curb domestic violence.
Preventing harassment, abuse, and discrimination experienced by long-term care workers.
Establishing a coalition of commissioned officers, detectives, and sergeants of the department of fish and wildlife for the purposes of collective bargaining, including interest arbitration.
Concerning the scope of collective bargaining for language access providers.
Concerning industrial insurance employer penalties, duties, and the licensing of third-party administrators.
Addressing compliance with apprenticeship utilization requirements and bidding on public works projects.
Recognizing posttraumatic stress disorders of 911 emergency dispatch personnel.
Preventing disruption of certain state-financed and procured services due to labor unrest within contracted service providers.
Strengthening the farm labor contractor system by removing an exemption for nonprofits, prohibiting retaliation and the use of farm labor contractors in certain circumstances, and establishing liability for related violations.
Concerning industrial insurance medical examinations.
Making unemployment benefits accessible to persons with family responsibilities and other availability issues and making clarifying changes.
Extending the farm internship program.
Providing an exemption from electrical licensing, certification, and inspection for industrial equipment.
Establishing minimum crew size on certain trains.
Concerning plumbing.
Concerning paid family and medical leave.
Concerning reasonable accommodation for the expression of breast milk without requiring written certification from a health care professional.
Concerning minimum labor standards for certain employees working at an airport or air navigation facility.
Concerning interest arbitration for department of corrections employees.
Granting relief of unemployment benefit charges when discharge is required by law and removing outdated statutory language.
Concerning sales commissions.
Concerning collective bargaining for administrative law judges.
Concerning the calculation of compensation of an employee of a medical school and an affiliated faculty group practice for purposes of a noncompetition agreement.
Prohibiting the consideration of the number of citations for traffic infractions issued by a law enforcement officer in the performance review of the officer.
Protecting temporary workers.
Providing labor protections for domestic workers.
Preventing the curtailment of employment opportunities by allowing employers to pay a training wage for a specified period of time.
Concerning parking cash out programs.
Preventing harassment, abuse, and discrimination experienced by long-term care workers.
Concerning vested vacation or paid time off upon an employee's termination.
Allowing whistleblowers to bring actions on behalf of the state for violations of workplace protections.
Concerning direct contractor liability for payment of wages and benefits.
Reducing work-related musculoskeletal disorders in the health care sector.
Concerning shared leave and industrial insurance benefits.
Prohibiting unjustified employer searches of employee personal vehicles.
Concerning minimum labor standards for certain employees working at an airport or air navigation facility.
Providing department of fish and wildlife officers interest arbitration under certain circumstances.
Concerning the use of artificial intelligence in job applications.
Developing best practices for the child care industry as recommended by the child care workforce commission.
Concerning the employment of individuals who lawfully consume marijuana.
Providing discretion to the director of the department of labor and industries to waive or modify penalties and violations when action is taken to avoid imminent danger of loss of life or serious injury.
Addressing the employer status of franchisors.
Changing the definition of public employee for public employees' collective bargaining.
Requiring health and safety training for construction workers.
Concerning the Washington state explosives act.
Increasing contractor bonding requirements.
Implementing the recommendations of the pesticide application safety work group.
Communicating claim closures by self-insured employers.
Extending the validity of temporary elevator licenses, expanding membership of the elevator safety advisory committee, allowing homeowners to remove certain conveyances from their residences, and eliminating duplicate paperwork.
Concerning confidentiality of employment security department records and data.
Enhancing the prevailing wage laws to ensure contractor and owner accountability and worker protection.
Granting binding interest arbitration rights to certain uniformed personnel.
Granting interest arbitration to department of corrections employees.
Concerning family and medical leave program coverage.
Concerning industrial insurance medical examinations.
Concerning legislative direction to manage escalating costs by modifying management responsibilities and operational considerations of state transportation public employees funded biennially by the transportation budget.
Accounting for differences across counties in setting new wage standards.
Concerning labor neutrality and contractor compliance for certain contracted service providers.
Creating a new exclusion from mandatory industrial insurance coverage for persons transporting freight. (REVISED FOR ENGROSSED: Clarifying responsibilities for mandatory industrial insurance coverage for persons transporting freight. )
Concerning restraints on persons engaging in lawful professions, trades, or businesses.
Concerning the Washington state explosives act.
Concerning misconduct for purposes of unemployment insurance.
Prohibiting employer searches of vehicles of employees.
Providing sergeants of the department of fish and wildlife interest arbitration under certain circumstances.
Creating a task force to improve employers' industrial insurance options through choice and competition.
Clarifying responsibilities for mandatory industrial insurance coverage for persons transporting freight.
Defining when federal government employees are unemployed for purposes of unemployment insurance.
Penalizing employers who relocate call centers to another country.
Concerning hours of service for certain railroad employees.
Concerning deduction of union dues or representation fees for public employees.
Safeguarding the public safety by protecting railroad workers.
Preventing the sexual harassment and sexual assault of certain isolated workers.
Establishing community service standards for individuals receiving unemployment benefits.
Creating the universal worker protections act.
Establishing the opportunities for employment in hospitality grant.
Concerning industrial insurance wage loss.
Concerning the employer-employee relationship.
Concerning employer and employee scheduling.
Establishing wage liens.
Concerning unemployment benefit eligibility for apprentices.
Extending collective bargaining rights to employees of the legislative branch of state government.
Making unemployment benefits accessible to persons with family responsibilities and other availability issues and making clarifying changes.
Concerning setting fees for administration of the prevailing wage program.
Concerning the H-2A temporary agricultural program.
Limiting overtime for correctional officers.
Extending collective bargaining rights to assistant attorneys general.
Establishing a coalition of commissioned officers, detectives, and sergeants of the department of fish and wildlife for the purposes of collective bargaining, including interest arbitration.
Concerning the H-2A temporary agricultural program.
Concerning workplace violence in health care settings.
Preventing the sexual harassment and sexual assault of certain isolated workers.
Eliminating subminimum wage certificates for persons with disabilities.
Implementing the recommendations of the pesticide application safety work group.
Concerning wage and salary information.
Ensuring for a skilled and trained workforce in high hazard facilities.
Concerning the safety and security of adult entertainers.
Concerning restraints on persons engaging in lawful professions, trades, or businesses.
Concerning meal and rest breaks and mandatory overtime for certain health care employees.
Granting certain correctional employees binding interest arbitration.
Enhancing the prevailing wage laws to ensure contractor and owner accountability and worker protection.
Granting binding interest arbitration rights to certain higher education uniformed personnel.
Creating an alternative process for sick leave benefits for workers represented by collective bargaining agreements.
Granting interest arbitration to department of corrections employees.
Strengthening the rights of workers through collective bargaining by addressing authorizations and revocations, certifications, and the authority to deduct and accept union dues and fees.
Making information about domestic violence resources available in the workplace.
Concerning setting fees for administration of the prevailing wage program.
Concerning industrial insurance and self-insurers.
Concerning delegation of inspection duties for factory built housing and commercial structures.
Extending collective bargaining rights to assistant attorneys general.
Increasing contractor bonding requirements.
Extending the validity of temporary elevator licenses, expanding membership of the elevator safety advisory committee, allowing homeowners to remove certain conveyances from their residences, and eliminating duplicate paperwork.
Concerning the presumption of occupational disease for purposes of workers' compensation by adding medical conditions to the presumption, extending the presumption to certain publicly employed firefighters and investigators and law enforcement, addressing the qualifying medical examination, and creating an advisory committee.
Concerning reasonable accommodation for the expression of breast milk in the workplace.
Concerning mandatory rest periods for pilots.
Clarifying the exemption for wiring and equipment associated with telecommunication installations.
Amending the application of the occupational disease presumption for cancer for Hanford site workers.
Concerning firefighter safety.
Concerning an employer's payment of indebtedness.
Concerning confidentiality of employment security department records and data.
Establishing the healthy energy workers board.
Concerning unemployment benefit eligibility for apprentices.
Concerning the confidentiality of industrial insurance claim records.
Addressing the methodology for establishing the prevailing rate of wages for the construction of affordable housing, homeless and domestic violence shelters, and low-income weatherization and home rehabilitation public works.
Concerning paid family and medical leave.
Modifying collective bargaining law to authorize providing additional compensation to academic employees at community and technical colleges.
Requiring employers to provide exclusive bargaining representatives reasonable access to new employees for the purposes of presenting information about their exclusive bargaining representative.
Establishing the prevailing rate of wage based on collective bargaining agreements or other methods if collective bargaining agreements are not available.
Concerning the collective bargaining rights of the professional personnel of port districts.
Encouraging fairness in disciplinary actions of peace officers.
Concerning spoken language interpreter services.
Allowing industrial insurance coverage for posttraumatic stress disorders of law enforcement and firefighters.
Regarding miniature hobby boilers.
Requiring completion of an apprenticeship program to receive a journey level electrician certificate of competency.
Concerning the deduction of union dues and fees.
Concerning enforcement of the electrical laws.
Concerning the time period for workers to recover wages under prevailing wage laws.
Adding training on public works and prevailing wage requirements to responsible bidder criteria.
Restricting the social security offset to disability compensation.
Concerning an employee's right to file a complaint or cause of action for sexual harassment or sexual assault in mandatory employment contracts and agreements.
Developing model policies to create workplaces that are safe from sexual harassment.
Encouraging the disclosure and discussion of sexual harassment and sexual assault in the workplace.
Making technical corrections to the family and medical leave program.
Addressing maximum penalties under the Washington industrial safety and health act.
Addressing workplace practices to achieve gender pay equity.
Clarifying hours and wages for education employee compensation claims.
Regarding an employer's payment of indebtedness upon the death of an employee.
Protecting survivors of domestic assault from employment discrimination.
Prohibiting employers from asking about arrests or convictions before an applicant is determined otherwise qualified for a position.
Addressing civil service qualifications.
Improving health outcomes for injured workers by facilitating better access to medical records and telemedicine.
Addressing the presumption of occupational disease for purposes of workers' compensation by adding medical conditions to the presumption and extending the presumption to certain publicly employed firefighters and investigators and law enforcement.
Regulating contracts by institutions of higher education with private entities.
Extending the validity of temporary elevator licenses.
Establishing the healthy energy workers task force.
Limiting overtime for correctional officers.
Concerning delegation of inspection duties.
Addressing meal and rest breaks and mandatory overtime for certain health care employees.
Providing industrial insurance coverage for stress-caused mental disorders and disabilities of members of the law enforcement officers' and firefighters' retirement system.
Granting binding interest arbitration rights to certain uniformed personnel.
Creating the presumption of occupational disease for certain employees at the United States department of energy Hanford site.
Safeguarding the public safety by protecting railroad workers.
Concerning work restrictions.
Establishing maritime Puget Sound regional prevailing wages.
Concerning unemployment compensation for musicians.
Addressing the presumption of occupational disease for purposes of workers' compensation by adding medical conditions to the presumption and extending the presumption to certain publicly employed firefighters and investigators and law enforcement.
Requiring employers to provide exclusive bargaining representatives reasonable access to new employees for the purposes of presenting information about their exclusive bargaining representative.
Establishing minimum crew size on certain trains.
Concerning vehicle identification of electrical contractors.
Establishing minimum crew size on certain trains.
Addressing civil service qualifications.
Making unemployment benefits accessible to persons with family responsibilities and other availability issues and making clarifying changes.
Addressing workplace bullying by making it an unfair practice to subject an employee to an abusive work environment.
Concerning the healthy relationships campaign.
Penalizing employers who relocate call centers to another country.
Concerning unemployment insurance benefits for individuals required by law to be terminated from employment and the unemployment insurance experience rating for affected employers.
Protecting temporary workers.
Concerning employment opportunity training programs in restaurants and grocery stores.
Concerning the plumbing industry.
Concerning determinations of worker benefits and employer obligations based on a worker's status.
Creating the Washington wage recovery act.
Limiting industrial insurance benefits for injuries or diseases caused by use of intoxicating liquor or drugs.
Concerning hearing instrument replacement under the industrial insurance medical aid benefit.
Concerning fairness in disciplinary actions of peace officers who appear on a prosecuting attorney's potential impeachment list.
Extending the validity of temporary elevator licenses.
Expanding the list of authorized provider types to treat injured workers suffering from mental health conditions caused by their industrial injury or occupational disease.
Simplifying and enforcing employee status under employment laws to ensure fairness to employers and employees and address the underground economy.
Addressing overtime compensation for seasonal employees at agricultural fairs.
Concerning employment laws regarding transportation contractors, including the definition of "truck."
Addressing wage and salary information.
Creating the youth internship opportunity act.
Implementing family and medical leave insurance.
Addressing the payment of production-based compensation wages for the employment and use of labor in agricultural activities and in the production, handling, and storage of farm products.
Concerning the employee status of language translators and interpreters.
Concerning class B elevator work permits.
Providing an exemption from unemployment compensation for certain providers of commercial transportation services.
Prohibiting certain employers from including any question on an application about an applicant's criminal record, inquiring either orally or in writing about an applicant's criminal records, or obtaining information from a criminal background check, until after the employer initially determines that the applicant is otherwise qualified.
Concerning transportation network companies.
Prohibiting contributions to gubernatorial candidates by entities that collectively bargain with the state.
Accommodating the civil rights of religious objectors to mandatory payments to labor organizations.
Addressing the payment of production-based compensation wages for the employment and use of labor in agricultural activities and in the production, handling, and storage of farm products.
Concerning certification requirements for electrical trainees.
Creating portable, prorated, universal benefits for workers of the gig economy.
Addressing the payment of production-based compensation wages for the employment and use of labor in agricultural activities and in the production, handling, and storage of farm products.
Requiring the regionalization of the minimum wage.
Concerning noncompetition agreements.
Addressing the overpayment of benefits paid to an individual unemployed due to a lockout.
Disqualifying employers from tax credits and tax incentives when there have been certain violations of labor relations.
Requiring public employee collective bargaining sessions to be open meetings.
Concerning the plumbing industry.
Concerning electrical and plumbing work performed by state employees.
Regulating interpreter services.
Addressing the employer status of franchisors.
Concerning employment laws regarding transportation contractors, including the definition of "truck."
Providing reasonable accommodations in the workplace for pregnant women.
Reducing the minimum wage.
Improving workers' compensation system costs and administration and worker outcomes through modification of procedures for claims to self-insureds, clarification of recovery in third-party legal actions, clarification of occupational disease claims, and lowering age barriers for structured settlements.
Improving compliance with prevailing wage procedures.
Establishing the prevailing rate of wage based on collective bargaining agreements or other methods if collective bargaining agreements are not available.
Concerning hours of service for certain railroad employees.
Requiring periodic certification elections for labor unions representing public employees.
Defining employment for purposes of the state unemployment tax.
Providing an exemption from unemployment compensation for certain providers of commercial transportation services.
Establishing community service standards for individuals receiving unemployment benefits.
Addressing wage and salary information.
Providing reasonable accommodations in the workplace for pregnant women.
Addressing equal pay.
Concerning class B elevator work permits.
Concerning the review and adoption of electrical rules.
Concerning the employee status of language translators and interpreters.
Concerning the employee antiretaliation act.
Addressing collective bargaining.
Providing damages for wage violations.
Limiting industrial insurance benefits for injuries or diseases caused by use of intoxicating liquor or drugs.
Concerning correctional industries' insurance costs.
Concerning fairness and equity in local employment laws and contracts related to work hours and scheduling.
Concerning medical marijuana patients and their employers.
Implementing family and medical leave insurance.
Creating an exemption from the intents and affidavits requirements when paying prevailing wages.
Accommodating the civil rights of religious objectors to mandatory payments to labor organizations.
Ensuring the accuracy of prevailing wage survey data provided by interested parties.
Protecting the right to work.
Creating the construction registration inspection account as a dedicated account to fund contractor registration and compliance, manufactured and mobile homes, recreational and commercial vehicles, factory built housing and commercial structures, elevators, lifting devices, and moving walks.
Promoting healthy outcomes for pregnant women and infants.
Grandfathering the accrual of vacation leave above the statutory maximum for certain employees of the Washington state ferries.
Allowing the expansion of counties qualifying for the farm internship program, including certain southwest Washington counties. (REVISED FOR PASSED LEGISLATURE: Allowing the expansion of counties qualifying for the farm internship program. )
Requiring notice to state fund employers for certain workers' compensation third-party settlements.
Extending the redetermination timeline regarding appeals to the department of labor and industries.
Modifying monetary penalties imposed for infractions relating to mobile and manufactured home installation.
Concerning electrical scope of practice.
Eliminating the reference to the standard industrial classification system in the worker and community right to know fund.
Concerning the compliance of certain conversion vending units and medical units with certain department of labor and industries requirements.
Addressing student volunteers.
Concerning the recruitment and retention of Washington state patrol commissioned officers.
Addressing having the right of receipt of wages by paper check.
Addressing certain exclusions from the definition of worker under industrial insurance statutes.
Providing reasonable accommodations in the workplace for pregnant women.
Addressing the use of a digital platform to employ certain independent contractors.
Concerning definitions related to human trafficking.
Restricting the use of noncompetition agreements.
Addressing the use of a digital platform to employ certain independent contractors.
Studying the causes of workplace injuries suffered by commercial janitors.
Addressing workplace bullying by making it an unfair practice to subject an employee to an abusive work environment.
Adding certain commissioned court marshals of city police departments to the definition of uniformed personnel for the purpose of public employees' collective bargaining.
Addressing the time period for workers to recover wages under prevailing wage laws.
Adding training on public works and prevailing wage requirements to responsible bidder criteria.
Addressing collective bargaining.
Addressing compliance with apprenticeship utilization requirements.
Improving compliance with prevailing wage procedures.
Requiring mandatory reporting of hazardous exposures for firefighters.
Addressing the presumption of occupational diseases for purposes of industrial insurance.
Concerning the review and adoption of electrical rules.
Prohibiting employers from asking about arrests or convictions before an applicant is determined otherwise qualified for a position.
Limiting the uses of the fire protection contractor license fund.
Addressing the overpayment of wages by a municipal corporation.
Allowing the expansion of counties qualifying for the farm internship program, including certain southwest Washington counties.
Addressing job search requirements for unemployment compensation claimants.
Requiring inspections, specialized training, and other enhanced workplace standards on dairy farms.
Establishing state preemption of local wage laws and contracts.
Addressing civil service qualifications.
Concerning department of labor and industries appeals.
Concerning permitting of conveyances.
Concerning payroll cards.
Addressing parity in worker wages.
Addressing accountability and fairness in public employee collective bargaining.
Addressing employment noncompetition agreements.
Requiring reasonable accommodations in the workplace for pregnant women.
Restricting the social security offset to disability compensation.
Prohibiting the consideration of the number of citations for traffic infractions issued by a law enforcement officer in the performance review of the officer.
Establishing acupuncture as an authorized treatment for injured workers.
Implementing joint legislative audit and review committee recommendations to improve claims management and efficiencies in workers' compensation.
Providing reasonable accommodations in the workplace for pregnant women.
Implementing joint legislative audit and review committee recommendations to improve claims management and efficiencies in workers' compensation.
Ensuring business vitality by allowing for total compensation when calculating the minimum wage rate and providing for youth wages.
Addressing fees and costs related to methods of wage payment.
Concerning office hours for registered tow truck operators.
Restricting employment noncompetition agreements.
Enacting the equal pay opportunity act by amending and enhancing enforcement of the equal pay act and protecting worker communications about wages and employment opportunities.
Addressing industrial insurance requirements and options for owners and lessees of for hire vehicles, limousines, and taxicabs.
Concerning the employee antiretaliation act.
Establishing minimum standards for sick and safe leave from employment.
Increasing the minimum hourly wage to twelve dollars over four years.
Establishing the prevailing rate of wage based on collective bargaining agreements or other methods if collective bargaining agreements are not available.
Addressing the nonemployee status of athletes in amateur sports.
Adding certain commissioned court marshals of county sheriff's offices to the definition of uniformed personnel for the purposes of public employees' collective bargaining.
Concerning definitions related to human trafficking.
Implementing joint legislative audit and review committee recommendations to improve claims management and efficiencies in workers' compensation.