As expected, Governor Jay Inslee signed legislation that will significantly restrict the use of noncompetition agreements for Washington-based employees and independent contractors. The new law will also make legal actions to...more
Last week, the Washington State Legislature passed a proposal that, once signed into law, will significantly restrict the use of noncompetition agreements in Washington. We fully expect Governor Jay Inslee to sign this law,...more
4/24/2019
/ Confidentiality Agreements ,
Employer Liability Issues ,
Employment Policies ,
Enforcement Actions ,
Governor Inslee ,
Hiring & Firing ,
Independent Contractors ,
New Legislation ,
Non-Compete Agreements ,
Non-Solicitation Agreements ,
Startups ,
State Labor Laws ,
Trade Secrets
The federal Fair Credit Reporting Act (FCRA) applies to employers who obtain “consumer reports” from a “consumer reporting agency” for employment purposes. A “consumer report” is one that has information bearing on the...more
Washington’s Amended Equal Pay Act -
The Washington Equal Pay Opportunity Act will go into effect on June 7, 2018. House Bill 1506, signed by Governor Jay Inslee on March 21, 2018, amends the Washington Equal Pay Act, RCW...more
5/9/2018
/ Employer Liability Issues ,
Employment Discrimination ,
Equal Pay ,
Equal Pay Act ,
Gender-Based Pay Discrimination ,
Hiring & Firing ,
Job Applicants ,
Local Ordinance ,
New Legislation ,
Pay Equity Laws ,
Pay Transparency ,
Salary/Wage History ,
Sexual Harassment ,
Wage and Hour
The Seattle City Council unanimously passed the Secure Scheduling Ordinance (Ordinance) on September 19, 2016. The Ordinance imposes new requirements on certain employers in the retail and food services industries for their...more
9/21/2016
/ Anti-Retaliation Provisions ,
Employer Liability Issues ,
Fast-Food Industry ,
Hiring & Firing ,
Local Ordinance ,
OCR ,
On-Call Employees ,
Restaurant Industry ,
Retailers ,
Wage and Hour ,
Work Schedules
The decision by the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) last week in BFI Newby Island Recyclery expands the circumstances in which two otherwise separate and independent employers may be found to be joint employers of a...more
9/1/2015
/ Browning-Ferris Industries of California Inc. ,
Collective Bargaining ,
Franchisee ,
Franchisors ,
General Contractors ,
Hiring & Firing ,
Joint Employers ,
NLRA ,
NLRB ,
Subcontractors ,
Unfair Labor Practices ,
Unions ,
Wage and Hour
On April 3, 2013, the New York Times published an article about commercial databases that contain reports from retail employers about employees who were accused of stealing from their workplaces. Other retailers, for a fee,...more
Last Friday, March 8th, the Department of Homeland Security, U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services, adopted a new I-9 Form that must be used by all employers (and some other entities), starting no later than May 8,...more