Category: Weekly News

Safeway Distribution Center in Auburn Fined for Violating New Law Auburn’s Safeway Distribution Center was fined over $11,000 by L&I for quota-related safety and…

A lab company providing services to some Planned Parenthood centers disclosed a data breach affecting about 1.6 million people. Laboratory Services Cooperative, a Seattle,…

Washington Amends Employee Personnel File Access Laws The Washington Legislature passed an amendment to laws regarding employee personnel files. These changes provide a definition…

WA Union Marches Into State Capitol as Budget Bargaining Boils Over On Wednesday, April 9th, protesters from the Washington State Federation of State Employees…

How Are Hospitals Complying with the Meal and Rest Break Law? Changes to meal and rest breaks for health care facility employees went into…

REI Union Says Co-op Is Turning ‘Corporate’ with New Board Members The United Food and Commercial Workers Union has asked REI employees to vote…

Ferguson Proposes $4B In Cuts, Furloughs In Face of WA Budget Shortfall Governor Bob Furguson has proposed that state workers take one unpaid furloughed…

Another Sky Zone Cited for Overworking Teens, This Time in Tukwila Called initially to investigate improper training and protection at a job site, L&I…

Struggling REI Cuts Hundreds of Employees, Axes Tour and Events Business REI has laid off over 400 employees as a result of its discontinuing…