Employers in Washington that are planning a mass layoff will soon be required to comply with 60 days' advance notification and information requirements under the state's new mini-WARN Act.
A first-of-its-kind law allowing employees to use paid sick leave to attend immigration-related proceedings could serve as a template for other states and localities to expand their own leave requirements.
Boeing has agreed to pay $11.5 million in unpaid wages to about 500 workers to compensate them for time spent traveling out of town on business - the largest amount of back pay returned to workers in the history of the Washington State Department of Labor & Industries.
Nearly three dozen companies face lawsuits alleging their job postings failed to disclose the wage scale or salary range, as a new Washington State law requires.
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