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• ESD budget

  ESD budget Read ESD's 2023-25 biennial budget requests to the state Legislature on the Office of Financial Management website. Go to the OFM website. Select the 2023-25 Regular or the 2023 Supplemental option. Scroll down and select the box next to Employment Security Department.    ESD's current operating budget Governor's proposed budget for the 2023-25 biennium       &#160...

• UI trust fund

  Unemployment Insurance Trust Fund This report provides information on Washington state’s employer contributions, benefits and UI trust fund current and projected balances. The Employment Security Department’s unemployment trust fund projections are reviewed and adjusted three times a year (June, September and November). The adjustments are made by changing several variables in the trust fund model. The variables are sourced from the state’s Economic and Revenue Forecast Council’s (ERFC) economic...

• Covered Employment (QCEW)

  Covered Employment (QCEW) The Quarterly Census of Employment and Wages (QCEW) is a federal/state cooperative program that measures employment and wages in industries covered by unemployment insurance. Data are available by industry and county.  What is the data source? We collect information about monthly employment, total wages and taxable wages from quarterly unemployment tax forms filed by employers. We also conduct quarterly surveys of employers who have more than one worksite in...

• Legislative resources

  Legislative resources Government Relations The role of the Government Relations Office is to assist the legislature and governor in ensuring Washington has efficient and effective workforce-development and unemployment insurance systems. The office does that by communicating data and analysis to state policy makers and elected officials. Contact us: Caitlyn Jekel, Government Relations Directorcaitlyn.jekel@esd.wa.gov   ESD...

• 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...

• Officers of Employee-Owned Cooperatives

  Officers of Employee-Owned Cooperatives Description Substitute Senate Bill 5176, which was passed during the 2023 legislative session, amended RCW 50.04.310 to expand the availability of unemployment benefits to officers of three types of employee-owned cooperative businesses. WAC 192-310-190 needs to be updated to conform to the amended statute.  Documents CR 105 | Expedited Rule  | CR 103P | Final Rule       (back to UI rulemaking...

• GCDE Calendar

  Governor's Committee on Disability Issues & Employment CALENDAR 2023 calendar link (2024 coming soon!) *Updated 5/11/23 - corrections made GCDE Meetings We invite you to join us for our public and quarterly meetings. CART and ASL interpreters will be provided. For any additional reasonable accommodation requests, please contact GCDE staff at gcde@esd.wa.gov, at least two weeks prior to the event. We will do our best to accommodate any requests made after that...

• 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...

• ASWS Advisory Committee Minutes and Recording

  Agricultural and Seasonal Workforce Services Advisory Committee Meeting Minutes 2024 March 20February 21January 17 2023 November 8October 18September 20August 16July 19June 21April 19March 15February 15January 19 2022 November 17October 20September 15September 1August 18July 28July 21June 16May 19April 21March 17February 17January 20 2021 December 16November 18October 21September 16July 15June 17May 20April 15March 18February 18January 21 2020 December...

• Standard occupational code reporting for federally recognized tribes

  Standard occupational code reporting for federally recognized tribes Description This rulemaking will enact changes made by House Bill 1684 (2023), which allows, but does not require, federally-recognized tribes to report to the Employment Security Department standard occupational code and job titles for its employees in its wage reports.   Documents CR 101 | Pre CR-102 draft rule | CR 102 | Proposed Rules | Preliminary Cost Benefit Analysis...