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On May 8, 2019, Governor Inslee signed ESHB 1450, implementing a series of requirements for enforceable noncompetition covenants in Washington, as well as provisions relating to moonlighting restrictions and franchise arrangements. Any action to enfo...

Private employers with 100 or more employees have long been required to submit annual employer information reports (“EEO-1 reports”) to the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (the “EEOC”) showing the number of their employees by job category, ra...

Not so long ago, employers needed to be wary of having policies and handbook provisions requiring employees to be courteous, professional, respectful, and the like, for fear that the National Labor Relations Board would find them in violation of the...

Unions in Washington State increased their membership by 100,000 in 2018 and unions' market share of the state labor force rose by 1 percent to 19.8 percent, the third highest percentage of any state in the country. Oregon lost 10,000 union members i...

The Department of Labor (the "DOL") has proposed a $35,308 minimum salary for white-collar exemptions after a 2016 proposed hike in the minimum salary failed. In 2016, the DOL had proposed increasing the minimum salary for the administrative, execut...

A little over a year ago, we told you about the decision by the Washington Court of Appeals in Floeting v. Group Health, holding that a place of public accommodation can be held liable for its employee’s sexual harassment of a patient under the Washi...