As summer temperatures begin to climb across Washington state, a new set of emergency worker protection heat wave rules issued by the Washington Department of Labor and Industries (L&I) are taking effect to protect workers during excessive heat warnings.
The emergency rules, developed in ...
Victims of the fatal crane collapse that killed four people at a Google job site in Seattle’s South Lake Union neighborhood in 2019 were awarded more than $100 million by a jury on March 15.
The verdict was for cases brought by the families of a 19-year-old Seattle Pacific University student an...
Since the 1960s, labor activists and workers’compensation attorneys have grown increasingly concerned about health problems in Japan resulting from long working hours. The problem became so widespread in recent decades that the term Karoshi, or “death from overwork,” went mainstream.
Resear...