Updated to reflect amended regulations that harmonize most of the state rules regarding hours worked with their federal counterparts, effective March 9, 2024.
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.
Pregnant employees in New York will soon be entitled to paid leave for prenatal care and paid lactation breaks, as a result of two new laws signed by Gov. Kathy Hochul.