Labor Law Requirements

• Your Rights as a Worker (Required)
• OSHA (Required)
• Workers’ Compensation (Required)
• Unemployment Insurance (Required)
• Minimum Wage (Recommended)
• Discrimination (Recommended)

• Family and Medical Leave (Required)
• Equal Employment Opportunity (Required)
• USERRA (Required)
• OSHA (Required)
• Federal Minimum Wage (Required)
• Polygraph Protection Test (Required)

Recent Changes

Your Rights as a Worker - August 2010

Washington has added the following paragraph to the "Wage & Hour Laws" section: Human trafficking is against the law. For victim assistance, call the National Human Trafficking Resource Center at 1-888-373-7888, or the Washington State Office of Crime Victims Advocacy at 1-800-822-1067.
Also, under the Family Care and Family Leave Laws, the state of Washington has added “Registered Domestic Partner” to the list of people eligible for FMLA leave.

Self-Insurance Notice - March 2010

The non-substantive changes include: replacement of the Labor & Industries logo, "Notice to Employees" is no longer in capital letters, the "Employer: You are required" section has been moved to the top of the notice, the telephone number for the Ombudsman for Self Insured Workers has been added, the contact information for person with disabilities has also been added, and the website www.Lni.we.gov has been added as well.

Minimum Wage - Unemployment Benefits - Your Rights as a Worker - Notice To Employees - Job Safety and Health Law - January 2009

• Minimum Wage - The minimum wage has increased from $8.07 per hour to $8.55 per hour. The minimum wage for workers age 14 or 15 increased from $6.86 per hour to $7.27 per hour.
• Unemployment Benefits - The Unemployment Benefits notice has been updated adding “… and newspapers…” and deleting the 1-877 number from behind the web address under the sub-paragraph “You must look for work each week you claim benefits”.
• Your Rights as a Worker - This notice has combined the agricultural and the non-agricultural section into one. A “Teen Corner” section has also been added to the bottom of the notice with information for teens between ages 14 through 17.
• Notice To Employees - This notice now provides detailed information regarding the Washington Family Leave Act, covers health care provider qualifications, and lists claim procedures.
• Job Safety and Health Law - This notice has been completely revised and now provides new detailed information with specific guidelines on all sections of the notice.

Your Rights as a Non-Agricultural - Job Safety and Health Protection - May 2008

• Your Rights as a Non-Agricultural - The Non-Agricultural Worker notice has been combined with the Family Leave Act notice.
• Job Safety and Health Protection -The Department of Labor and Industries has changed the employer notification of fatality requirement so that an employer must now notify the DLI if an incident results in one or more employees being hospitalized (previously it was two or more).
This was a Substantive change

Minimum Wage - Discrimination - January 2008

• Minimum Wage - The minimum wage has changed from $7.93 per hour to $8.07 per hour for the year 2008, effective January 1. The minimum wage to be paid to workers 14-15 yrs of age increased from $6.74 to $6.86.
• Discrimination - The DOL added several protected classes to the Discrimination notice along with verbiage changes. Examples include: adding HIV, AIDS, and Hepatitis C status pregnancy or maternity sexual orientation or gender identity honorably discharged veteran or military status.
This was a Substantive change