40 chapters · 645 sections in this title.
RCW 49.52.010 Employees' benefit deductions and employer contributions are trust funds—Enforcement.
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All moneys collected by any employer from his or her or its employees and all money to be paid by any employer as his or her contribution for furnishing, either directly, or through contract, or arrangement with a hospital association, corporation, firm, or individual, of medicin…
RCW 49.52.020 Lien of party rendering service.
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In case any employer collecting moneys from his or her employees or making contributions to any type of benefit plan for any or all of the purposes specified in RCW 49.52.010, shall enter into a contract or arrangement with any hospital association, corporation, firm, or individu…
RCW 49.52.030 Deductions in extrahazardous employment—Medical aid fund deductions excluded.
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All moneys realized by any employer from the employer's employees either by collection or by deduction from the wages or pay of employees intended or to be used for the furnishing to workers engaged in extrahazardous work, their families or dependents, of medical, surgical or hos…
RCW 49.52.040 Actions to recover for service—Lien—Priority.
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If any such employer shall default in any such payment to any physician, surgeon, hospital, hospital association or any other parties to whom any such payment is due, the sum so due may be collected by an action at law in the name of the physician, surgeon, hospital, hospital ass…
RCW 49.52.050 Rebates of wages—False records—Penalty.
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Any employer or officer, vice principal or agent of any employer, whether said employer be in private business or an elected public official, who(1) Shall collect or receive from any employee a rebate of any part of wages theretofore paid by such employer to such employee; or(2) …
RCW 49.52.060 Authorized withholding.
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The provisions of RCW 49.52.050 shall not make it unlawful for an employer to withhold or divert any portion of an employee's wages when required or empowered so to do by state or federal law or when a deduction has been expressly authorized in writing in advance by the employee …
RCW 49.52.070 Civil liability for double damages.
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Any employer and any officer, vice principal or agent of any employer who shall violate any of the provisions of RCW 49.52.050 (1) and (2) shall be liable in a civil action by the aggrieved employee or his or her assignee to judgment for twice the amount of the wages unlawfully r…
RCW 49.52.080 Presumption as to intent.
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The violations by an employer or any officer, vice principal, or agent of any employer of any of the provisions of subdivisions (3), (4), and (5) of RCW 49.52.050 shall raise a presumption that any deduction from or underpayment of any employee's wages connected with such violati…
RCW 49.52.090 Rebates of wages on public works—Penalty.
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Every person, whether as a representative of an awarding or public body or officer, or as a contractor or subcontractor doing public work, or agent or officer thereof, who takes or receives, or conspires with another to take or receive, for his or her own use or the use of any ot…