Washington Labor & Employment Bills

Concerning termination and restatement of plan 1 of the law enforcement officers' and firefighters' retirement system.

Modifying shared leave provisions to authorize shared leave for victims of a hate crime and those whose absence is due to immigration enforcement actions against the employee or the employee's relative.

Concerning immigrant worker protections.

Establishing a pilot program for posttraumatic stress disorder treatment and research.

Requiring public employers under chapter 41.80 RCW to provide employee information to exclusive bargaining representatives.

Concerning the department of labor and industries' authority to enact rules related to regulating asbestos training.

Allowing collective bargaining over contributions for certain supplemental retirement benefits.

Concerning access to medical care in workers' compensation.

Adding discretion to wage enforcement actions.

Concerning collective bargaining for employees not covered by the national labor relations act.

Concerning the professional engineers' registration act.

Establishing a child care workforce standards board.

Concerning membership in the public employees' retirement system for port workers who participate in a federal railroad retirement plan, a union-sponsored defined benefit retirement plan, or another employer-funded private pension plan. (REVISED FOR ENGROSSED: Concerning membership in the public employees' retirement system for port workers who participate in a federal railroad retirement plan.)

Prohibiting noncompetition agreements and clarifying nonsolicitation agreements.

Concerning unemployment insurance benefits for workers separated from employment as a result of employer-initiated layoffs or workforce reductions.

Promoting transparency in certain industrial insurance rate increases.

Concerning notice to striking workers applying for unemployment insurance benefits of potential overpayment assessment upon receipt of retroactive wages.

Concerning language access providers' collective bargaining.

Concerning collective bargaining for certain employees who are enrolled in academic programs at public institutions of higher education.

Increasing small works roster contract limits.