As temperatures rise year after year, so does the risk of incurring a heat-related health issue or injury — especially for those who work outside.
In the summers of 2021 and 2022, the Washington State Department of L&I filed emergency rules to protect outdoor workers’ health from ambi...
The Board Of Industrial Insurance Appeals (BIIA) In Washington State
The Board of Industrial Insurance Appeals is part of Washington State's workers' compensation system. It serves as an independent administrative agency responsible for hearing appeals of decisions made by the Department of Labor...
Have you been injured at work? Did you file an L&I claim with the Washington State Department of Labor and Industries (L&I) or are you still waiting for your settlement? Have you found yourself asking why an L&I claim takes so long to close? As with any legal process, it takes time and p...
Every industry tries to maintain safety standards for its staff at all times. Sometimes, regardless of what precautions are taken, there is always a chance of an accident happening and a worker getting injured.
According to the Bureau of Labor’s statistics, there were approximately 2.8 million ...
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Generally speaking, workers’ compensation is available to any employee who is injured or acquires certain types of illnesses at the workplace, or during work-related activities, acco...
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A long delayed update to America's overtime pay system has finally passed in Washington D.C., and the changes could usher in far more generous overtime benefits to Washington state w...
In a recent NYT article on “The Death of the Sick Day,” respondents flooded the comment section to say that it had been years—even more than a decade— since they had taken a sick day. Indeed, the author, Steven Kurutz, wrote that the sick day is “disappearing from the office vocabulary...
There are plenty of factors that can hold back our careers, from lack of skills and education to more personal things like physical appearance or a family reputation.
But one factor many of us don’t consider is our personality: preferences, habits, quirks, and style. Yet it doesn’t have t...
Two weeks ago the Federal Jobs Report showed our economy to be in an unusual sweet spot, with steady growth and widespread improvement in the labor market.
How Good Are The Job Numbers?
An Op-Ed contributor to the New York Times wrote that the biggest question in evaluating the May job number...
In the book “The Balance Myth: Rethinking Work-Life Success," business executive Teresa Taylor explains, “I never believed the hype that women have to choose between a career and a personal life to live their best life. You shouldn't, either.”
She urges workers to abandon the frustrating an...