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• Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification (WARN)

  Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification (WARN) Find layoff and closure information on Washington State employers. Generally, the WARN Act requires companies with 100 or more employees to notify affected workers 60 days prior to closures and layoffs. Read the WARN requirements. WARN data includes: Name of the employer Business location Number of affected workers Type (layoff or closure) Effective date of layoff or closure. The U.S. Department of Labor Employment and Training...

• Paid Family & Medical Leave - Timeline

  Paid Family & Medical Leave Implementation Timeline July 2017 - January 2020 July 5th 2017 Paid Family and Medical Leave legislation is passed in the Washington State House and Senate. May 2018 Software partners begin development of reporting and remitting tools. August 2018 Voluntary plan applications are available January 2019 Premium collection begins through employer withholding premiums from employee paychecks April 2019 First quarter reporting of employee wages, hours, and more by...

• COVID-19 Unemployment Account

  COVID-19 Unemployment Account   DescriptionIn its session that ended March 12, 2020, the Washington State Legislature passed Engrossed House Bill 2965 (c. 7, Laws of 2020), which appropriates funds into the COVID-19 Unemployment Account for the purposes of reducing specified benefit charges to eligible employers. Rules are necessary in order to establish which employers are eligible to apply for benefit-charge reduction, which benefit charges are eligible to be reduced, and the process for...

• Rule-making - Work search rule

  Work search rule Description In order to be eligible to receive unemployment benefits, an unemployed individual must, among other requirements, be actively seeking work. State law requires individuals to make contacts with at least three employers per week or at least three documented in-person job search activities at the local reemployment center per week.  The Department currently has two active rulemakings regarding work search: What activities are considered a job search? What are job...

• Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act (WIOA)

  Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act (WIOA) The basics of WIOA The Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act (WIOA) details the delivery of federally funded employment services, workforce development, basic education for adults, and vocational rehabilitation activities for people with disabilities. Most WIOA provisions became effective in July 2015 with additional requirements set for July 2016. WIOA replaces the current Workforce Investment Act (WIA) of 1998 and amends...

• Overpayment Waivers

  Overpayment Waivers Description The Employment Security Department adopted emergency rules concerning blanket overpayment waivers for Pandemic Unemployment Assistance, Pandemic Emergency Unemployment Compensation, Federal Pandemic Unemployment Compensation, and Mixed Earner Unemployment Compensation. The Department also adopted rules concerning the process for requesting overpayment waivers for overpaid benefits and waivers for conditional benefits paid for the week beginning...

• Median and hourly wages

  Median and hourly wages The median and average hourly wage tables include annual data going back to 1990 for the state and each county. Unadjusted, inflation-adjusted and annualized data are listed, as well as a breakout for the private sector. The U.S. Personal Consumption Expenditure Implicit Price Deflator was used to convert nominal wages to constant-dollar (2018) wages. What is the data source for this report? The data are drawn from quarterly unemployment insurance tax...

• Overpayment Waivers-Permanent Rulemaking

  Overpayment Waivers-Permanent Rulemaking Description The Employment Security Department adopted emergency rules concerning blanket overpayment waivers for Pandemic Unemployment Assistance, Pandemic Emergency Unemployment Compensation, Federal Pandemic Unemployment Compensation, and Mixed Earner Unemployment Compensation. The Department also adopted rules concerning the process for requesting overpayment waivers for overpaid benefits and waivers for conditional benefits paid for the...

• Occupations (OEWS)

  Occupational employment and wage statistics (OEWS) OEWS is a program of the U.S. Department of Labor, Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS). This federal-state cooperative program produces employment and wage estimates annually for about 867 occupations. Each year, the Employment Security Department’s Data Architecture, Transformation and Analytics (DATA) Division compiles occupational employment and wage estimates for Washington state. These data are presented statewide, for metropolitan...

• Distressed areas list

  Distressed areas list Distressed areas are counties where the three-year unemployment rate is at least 20 percent higher than the statewide average. For more information about distressed areas, see Chapter 43.168.020 of the Revised Code of Washington, which took effect in 2005. The 2023 list of distressed areas (Washington state counties) is compiled by averaging the employment and unemployment numbers for the prior three years. We create the distressed areas list...