Title 50 — Title 50 UNEMPLOYMENT COMPENSATION
25 chapters · 395 sections in this title.
RCW 50.04.295 Payments in lieu of contributions.
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"Payments in lieu of contributions" means money payments due to the state unemployment compensation fund as provided in RCW 50.44.060.[ 1971 c 3 s 2.]Notes:Construction—Compliance with federal act—1971 c 3: See RCW 50.44.080.
RCW 50.04.298 Professional employer organizations—Coemployment—Covered employee.
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For the purposes of this title:(1) "Professional employer organization" means a person or entity that enters into an agreement with one or more client employers to provide professional employer services. "Professional employer organization" includes entities that use the term "st…
RCW 50.04.299 Public health emergency.
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"Public health emergency" means a declaration or order that covers the jurisdiction where the unemployed individual was working on the date the individual became unemployed concerning any dangerous, contagious, or infectious diseases, including a pandemic, and is issued as follow…
RCW 50.04.300 State.
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"State" includes, in addition to the states of the United States of America, the District of Columbia, the Virgin Islands, and the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico.[ 1977 ex.s. c 292 s 8; 1971 c 3 s 10; 1945 c 35 s 31; Rem. Supp. 1945 s 9998-169. Prior: 1943 c 127 s 13; 1941 c 253 s 1…
RCW 50.04.310 Unemployed individual—Individual not unemployed—Unemployed corporate officer—Corporate officer not unemployed.
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(1) An individual:(a) Is "unemployed" in any week during which the individual performs no services and with respect to which no remuneration is payable to the individual, or in any week of less than full time work, if the remuneration payable to the individual with respect to suc…
RCW 50.04.315 Vulnerable adult.
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"Vulnerable adult" has the same meaning as in RCW 74.34.020.[ 2023 c 240 s 1.]Notes:Conflict with federal requirements—2023 c 240: See note following RCW 50.20.050.
RCW 50.04.320 Wages, remuneration.
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(1) For the purpose of payment of contributions, "wages" means the remuneration paid by one employer during any calendar year to an individual in its employment under this title or the unemployment compensation law of any other state in the amount specified in RCW 50.24.010. If a…
RCW 50.04.323 Wages, remuneration—Government or private retirement pension plan payments—Effect upon eligibility—Reduction in benefits.
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(1) The amount of benefits payable to an individual for any week which begins in a period with respect to which such individual is receiving a governmental or other pension, retirement or retired pay, annuity, or any other similar periodic payment which is based on the previous w…
RCW 50.04.330 Wages, remuneration—Retirement and disability payments excepted.
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Prior to January 1, 1951, the term "wages" shall not include the amount of any payment by an employing unit for or on behalf of an individual in its employ under a plan or system established by such employing unit which makes provision for individuals in its employ generally, or …
RCW 50.04.335 Wages, remuneration—Stock transfers excepted.
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After December 31, 2003, for the purpose of the payment of contributions, the term "wages" does not include an employee's income attributable to the transfer of shares of stock to the employee pursuant to his or her exercise of a stock option granted for any reason connected with…
RCW 50.04.340 Wages, remuneration—Death benefits excepted.
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Prior to January 1, 1951, the term "wages" shall not include the amount of any payment by an employing unit for or on behalf of an individual in its employ under a plan or system established by such employing unit which makes provision for individuals in its employ generally, or …
RCW 50.04.350 Wages, remuneration—Excepted payments.
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The term "wages" shall not include the payment by an employing unit (without deduction from the remuneration of the individual in its employ) of the tax imposed upon an individual in employment under section 1400 of the federal internal revenue code, as amended, or any amount pai…
RCW 50.04.355 Wages, remuneration—Average annual wage—Average weekly wage—Average annual wage for contributions purposes.
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(1) For computations made before January 1, 2007, the employment security department shall compute, on or before the fifteenth day of June of each year, an "average annual wage", an "average weekly wage", and an "average annual wage for contributions purposes" from information fo…
RCW 50.04.360 Week.
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"Week" means any period of seven consecutive calendar days ending at midnight as the commissioner may by regulation prescribe.[ 1945 c 35 s 37; Rem. Supp. 1945 s 9998-175. Prior: 1943 c 127 s 13; 1941 c 253 s 14; 1939 c 214 s 16; 1937 c 162 s 19.]
RCW 50.04.370 Services performed by a driver facilitated by a transportation network company.
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(1) Notwithstanding RCW 50.04.140, services performed by a driver that are facilitated through a digital network are subject to this title. Except as otherwise provided in rules adopted by the department, the laws and rules that apply under this title to a relationship meeting th…
RCW 50.04.900 Construction—Title applicable to state registered domestic partnerships—2009 c 521.
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For the purposes of this title, the terms spouse, marriage, marital, husband, wife, widow, widower, next of kin, and family shall be interpreted as applying equally to state registered domestic partnerships or individuals in state registered domestic partnerships as well as to ma…