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• UIAC Meeting minutes

  Unemployment Insurance Advisory Committee Meeting minutes  YEAR 2024January 26, 2024February 23, 2024March 29, 2024May 15, 2024June 26, 2024July 24, 2024August 7, 2024 YEAR 2023January 27, 2023February 24, 2023March 31, 2023June 14, 2023August 2, 2023September 11, 2023October 18, 2023 December 6, 2023 YEAR 2022January 28, 2022February 25, 2022March 25, 2022August 30, 2022September 27, 2022October 19, 2022November 9, 2022December 14, 2022  YEAR...

• Expanding good cause for voluntarily quitting employment

  Expanding good cause for voluntarily quitting employment Description The Employment Security Department is engaging in rulemaking to incorporate into the Department’s rules the changes made by House Bill 1106 (2023). House Bill 1106 expanded the good cause reasons for voluntarily quitting employment set forth in RCW 50.20.050 and updates the employer rate charging requirements set forth in RCW 50.29.021.   Phase 1: The Department updated the definition of family member and...

• October 2019 ESAC meeting materials

  October 2019 ESAC meeting materials Minutes (PDF document, 46 KB) Rulemaking agenda (Word document, 47 KB) ESD Rulemaking (PowerPoint, 386 KB) ESD Legislative priorities (PDF, 3 MB) Economic cycle planning (PowerPoint, 136 KB) Improper payments (PowerPoint, 99 KB) RESEA (PowerPoint, 938 KB...

• Business employment dynamics

  Business employment dynamics The business employment dynamics (BED) report covers job gains and losses at private sector firms and identifies whether the change is due to businesses opening or closing, or due to increases and decreases in employment at existing firms. What is the data source for the BED report? The Bureau of Labor Statistics generates business employment dynamics data from the Quarterly Census of Employment and Wages (QCEW) program. QCEW data are drawn from reports of employment...

• GCDE Meeting Information

  Governor's Committee on Disability Issues & Employment meeting information   Accessible Communities subcommittee  2024 Minutes for Jan. 17 Minutes for Feb. 21 Minutes for Apr. 3 Minutes for May 1 Minutes for June 5 Minutes for July 3 Minutes for Aug 7 Agenda for Sept 4 Contact: Elaine Stefanowicz   Past AC meeting materials...

• Determining your tax rates

  Determining your tax rates   Washington's Unemployment Insurance program is an experience-based system. In general, your tax rate depends on how much your former workers collect in unemployment benefits and the size of your payroll. There are two major components of state unemployment taxes, an experience-rating tax based on an average of the employer's layoff history over the past four fiscal years and a shared-cost (social) tax based on costs from...

• Unemployment taxes

  Unemployment taxes   If you have employees working in Washington, you likely must pay unemployment taxes on their wages in this state. Tax reports or tax and wage reports are due quarterly. Liable employers must submit a tax report every quarter, even if there are no paid employees that quarter or taxes are unable to be paid. New employer webinar video. New employer webinar slide deck. Learn about reimbursable employers. Understand how tax-rate...

• Employer resources webinar series

  Employer resources webinar series Program overview  (Time length: 2:30 min)   &#160...

• Employer Newsletter

  Employer Newsletter A monthly newsletter focusing on WA Cares Fund, Paid Family & Medical Leave, and Unemployment Insurance. Sign up. 2024 September | Issue 53 August | Issue 52 July | Issue 51 June | Issue 50 May | Issue 49 April | Issue 48 March | Issue 47 February | Issue 46 January | Issue 45   2023 December 2023 | Issue 44 November 2023 | Issue 43 Special YesVets edition - October 2023 | Issue 42 October 2023 | Issue 41 Special WA...

• Transportation Network Companies

  Transportation Network Companies Description The Employment Security Department (Department) is engaging in rulemaking to amend current rules in accordance with the Department’s 2022 report on transportation network companies and to integrate transportation network companies and their drivers into the unemployment insurance system as set forth in SHB 1570 (2023). This rulemaking will cover unemployment insurance only and will not cover paid family and medical leave. More...