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New Washington State Paid Sick and Safe Leave (PSSL) – effective January 1, 2018
Effective January 1, 2018, in accordance with WAC 296-128-620, all Washington state businesses will be required to provide paid sick and safe leave time to all eligible employees. Labor and Industries very recently released the guidelines for how this leave should be...
Come hear Juli Bacon speak at the NAHB International Builders’ Show!
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COMPLIANCE ALERT: Washington State Requires Paid Sick and Safe Leave for Employees
COMPLIANCE ALERT Washington State Requires Paid Sick and Safe Leave for Employees Effective January 1, 2018, in accordance with WAC 296-128-620, all Washington state businesses will be required to provide paid sick and safe leave time to all eligible...
Where is Juli now: BIAW Education Program presents Juli Bacon to discuss I-1433 Paid Sick Leave & Minimum Wage for WA State
Register today! Click here Are you confident your current policy abides by I-1433? Fines can be up to $40k per violation! Attend in person in Yakima or through a live webinar at home or at the CWHBA Wenatchee location! If you are personally attending, bring a copy of...
Where’s Juli Now: Getting Ready for I-1433: Washington’s New Statewide Paid Sick and Safe Leave Law
Are Your Leave Policies Ready For I-1433: Paid Sick Leave? In November 2016, Washington voters passed Initiative 1433 which raised the state-wide minimum wage and introduced paid sick and safe leave across the state. The new paid leave law will be effective January 1,...
Terminating employees who voice their beliefs
If you learned that one of your employees was in a hate group or participated in hate group activities outside of the workplace, would you have grounds to terminate their employment? It’s a very sticky scenario and should be dealt with on a case-by-case basis and only...
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Projecting Staffing Needs for 2021 in the Time of a Pandemic
As most businesses have learned this year, a pandemic can really skew projections when it comes to profitability and growth. As such, it’s also changed many hiring and recruitment plans for businesses that had been on target for greater growth pre-pandemic and have...
New Payroll Tax Holiday Available September 1 – December 31, 2020
New IRS Guidance related to employee payroll tax collection has been issued to allow for deferral of payroll taxes through the end of 2020 in an effort to provide income relief to those employees who have been impacted by COVID-19. Notice 2020-65 was issued on...
New FMLA Forms Available
If you’re an employer of 50 or more, you have likely had the experience of handling an employee’s leave of absence under the Family and Medical Leave Act (FMLA) and know just how many forms are required to process and authorize an employee’s FML leave. Just recently,...
Understanding the Ins and Outs of Compensation Reviews
Have you ever been asked by an employee how you decided what they would make? Or perhaps tried to identify whether a role should be classified as Exempt or Non-Exempt? Or created a new position and had to determine how much to pay the new employee? One of the most...
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