Worker's Rights In Washington State
As a Washington employee, you are entitled to worker's rights: several protections and benefits under State and Federal laws. Everyone deserves to be paid fairly, work free of discrimination and harassment, and perform their job in a safe work environment. Unfo...
Did You Know That Washington Job Seekers Could Get $5,000 Thanks To Recent Updates To Washington Salary Transparency Laws?
Washington State employers must post clear salary information on all job applications under the updated Washington Equal Pay and Opportunities Act (EPOA). The pay transparen...
Washington State has one of the highest minimum wage rates in the United States. Some professions have a higher wage rate in Washington than anywhere else. In 2020, Washington state law established a new minimum wage for computer professionals.
Washington State Minimum Wages
The 2023 statewid...
In a recent account shared on Lifehacker, freelance writer Rebecca Fishbein described her experience working from home for a full year. She noted several upsides to the laid-back life of couch-consulting. She doesn't have to deal with a commute, she rarely puts on real pants or shoes, and she can...
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...
Have you ever felt that time off wouldn’t be worth it because the planning and preparation effort—not to mention the mountain of catch-up work—would be so overwhelming?
If so, you’re not unusual. More than 50% of Americans take less than their allowed vacation time each year. Some rea...
When someone says they “don’t have enough time,” what they really mean is they don’t have time for the stuff they really want or need to do. But in the end, it's always a matter of reorganization. Nobody can create more time out of thin air. We’re all limited to a fixed 24 hours per day an...
Last month, Bloomberg reported that Amazon founder Jeff Bezos has amassed a fortune worth $150 billion. That is the largest amount in modern history, and mind-boggling however you look at it. Bezos is the only hecto-billionaire on the planet. He is worth two million times more than the average A...
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...
Last fall the hospitality union Unite Here ran demonstrations in 40 cities, explaining that the U.S. “needs protections for the workers who drive this industry.”
The hospitality workers union Unite Here had its sights set on Donald Trump long before he became president. While Trump was runnin...