Labor Law Requirements

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

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

Recent Changes

Workers’ Compensation - Unemployment Benefits - March 2011

• Workers' Compensation - Substantive - Under Death Benefits on the Workers' Compensation Insurance notice, "registered Domestic partner" has been added as a class that may receive pension. A reference to the Minimum Wage poster was also removed. Note: This does not affect the Self-Insured Workers' Compensation Poster. This change only affects employers who have Workers' Compensation insurance through the state. Employers who are self-insured will not require a new poster.
• Unemployment Benefits - Non-substantive - Added to the English notice was the clarification that individuals disabled by a non-work related injury for 13 or more weeks (if released by their doctor in the last 12 months) are ineligible to file for unemployment online. This was already on the Spanish version. An additional phone number was also add to the Spanish version.

OSHA - Your Right as a Worker - February 2011

Non-substantive verbiage, formatting, and color changes to the OSHA and Your Rights as a Worker notices.

Minimum Wage - January 2011

Washington minimum wage will change from $8.55 to $8.67 per hour, effective January 1, 2011. As a way to simplify requirements for businesses and to save taxpayer money, L&I will no longer require a separate poster listing the new minimum wage each time the wage changes. Employers are still required to post the “Your Rights as a Worker” poster, which provides information about the minimum wage and other topics. This notice was updated in May of 2010. Employers who post an All-In-One poster, which includes the 2010 minimum wage of $8.55, should replace this poster on January 1st.
This was a Substantive change

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.
This was a Substantive change

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.
This was a Substantive change