Title 50 — Title 50 UNEMPLOYMENT COMPENSATION
25 chapters · 395 sections in this title.
RCW 50.12.220 Penalties for late reports or contributions—Warning—Assessment—Waiver—Appeal.
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*** CHANGE IN 2026 *** (SEE 5874-S.SL) ***(1) If an employer fails to file a timely report as required by RCW 50.12.070, or the rules adopted pursuant thereto, the employer is subject to a penalty of twenty-five dollars per violation, unless the penalty is waived by the commissio…
RCW 50.12.230 Job skills training program—Department's duties.
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See RCW 28C.04.400 through 28C.04.420.
RCW 50.12.235 Washington conservation corps—Department's duties.
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See chapter 43.220 RCW.
RCW 50.12.240 On-the-job training—Employer qualifications established by rule.
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The commissioner may establish by rule qualifications for employers who agree to provide on-the-job training for new employees.[ 1985 c 299 s 2.]
RCW 50.12.245 Cooperation with workforce training and education coordinating board.
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The commissioner shall cooperate with the workforce training and education coordinating board in the conduct of the board's responsibilities under RCW 28C.18.060 and shall provide information and data in a format that is accessible to the board.[ 1991 c 238 s 80.]
RCW 50.12.250 Information clearinghouse to assist in employment of persons of disability.
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The employment security department shall establish an information clearinghouse for use by persons of disability and governmental and private employers. The services of the clearinghouse shall include:(1) Provision of information on private and state services available to assist …
RCW 50.12.252 Information clearinghouse—Consultation on establishment.
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In establishing the information clearinghouse, the employment security department shall consult with organizations of private sector employers and persons of disability.[ 1987 c 369 s 3.]Notes:Legislative finding—1987 c 369: See note following RCW 50.12.250.
RCW 50.12.290 Printed materials—Department's duties.
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When an employer initially files a business license application under chapter 19.02 RCW for the purpose, in whole or in part, of registering to pay unemployment insurance taxes, the employment security department must send to the employer any printed material the department recom…
RCW 50.12.300 Professional employer organizations—Reports and records.
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(1) A professional employer organization must register with the department and ensure that its client employers are registered with the department as provided in RCW 50.12.070.(2) By September 1, 2007, the professional employer organization shall provide the department with:(a) T…
RCW 50.12.310 Professional employer organizations—Revocation of authority to act as coemployer.
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A professional employer organization's authority to act as a coemployer for purposes of this title may be revoked by the department when it determines that the professional employer organization has substantially failed to comply with the requirements of RCW 50.12.300.[ 2007 c 14…
RCW 50.12.330 Domestic violence employment poster.
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(1) The department shall create an employment poster regarding domestic violence. The poster shall include space in which an employer shall provide the name or names of community resources regarding domestic violence. The employer shall post the poster and keep it posted in a con…
RCW 50.12.340 Report to legislature.
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By November 1, 2026, the employment security department, in coordination with the workforce training and education coordinating board, shall report to the appropriate committees of the legislature and the governor on how the standard occupational classification or job title data …
RCW 50.12.350 Use of social security numbers in correspondence with third parties.
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(1) For the purposes of preventing fraud and protecting personal privacy, the employment security department shall examine its current practices in which it discloses the full social security numbers of persons in its correspondence with nongovernmental third parties.(2) If the d…
RCW 50.12.355 Report—Unemployment trust fund—Minimum weekly benefit increase—Wages subject to tax.
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(1) By December 1, 2021, and annually thereafter until December 1, 2025, and in compliance with RCW 43.01.036, the department must report to the governor and the appropriate committees of the legislature on the following:(a) Status of the unemployment trust fund, including any fe…
RCW 50.12.360 Unemployment insurance claim adjudicator training program—Report.
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(1) The employment security department must create a training program to prepare a reserve force of skilled unemployment insurance claim adjudicators who can be available quickly when claims volume demands.(2) The program must:(a) Be open to both state and other public employees …
RCW 50.12.365 Plain language required for letters, alerts, and notices.
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(1) The department must designate department employees to assure that letters, alerts, and notices produced manually or by the department's unemployment insurance technology system are written in plainly understood language and tested on claimants before they are approved for use…
RCW 50.12.370 Unemployment insurance claims—Online data dashboard—Quarterly reports, performance metrics.
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The department must:(1) Maintain an online data dashboard;(2) Provide quarterly reports with performance metrics that include:(a) Updates of unemployment rates;(b) Total numbers of claims paid, amount compensated, claims denied, claims pending in adjudication, claims on which pay…
RCW 50.13.015 Information held private and confidential—Requests for disclosure.
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(1) If information provided to the department by another governmental agency is held private and confidential by state or federal laws, the department may not release such information.(2) Information provided to the department by another governmental entity conditioned upon priva…
RCW 50.13.020 Information or records deemed private and confidential—Exceptions.
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Any information or records concerning an individual or employing unit obtained by the employment security department pursuant to the administration of this title shall be private and confidential, except as otherwise provided in this chapter. This chapter does not create a rule o…
RCW 50.13.030 Rules.
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The commissioner shall have the authority to adopt, amend, or rescind rules interpreting and implementing the provisions of this chapter.[ 2019 c 81 s 2; 2005 c 274 s 320; 1977 ex.s. c 153 s 3.]
RCW 50.13.040 Access of individual or employing unit to records and information.
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(1) An individual shall have access to all records and information concerning that individual held by the employment security department, unless the information is exempt from disclosure under RCW 42.56.410.(2) An employing unit shall have access to its own records and to any rec…
RCW 50.13.050 Access to records or information by interested party in proceeding before appeal tribunal or commissioner—Decisions not private and confidential, exception.
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(1) Any interested party, as defined by rule, in a proceeding before the appeal tribunal or commissioner shall have access to any information or records deemed private and confidential under this chapter if the information or records are material to the issues in that proceeding.…
RCW 50.13.060 Access to records or information by governmental agencies.
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(1) Unless otherwise required by federal law, only state and local governmental agencies and federally recognized Indian tribes as defined in Title 26 U.S.C. Sec. 3306(u) of the federal unemployment tax act may have access to information or records deemed private and confidential…
RCW 50.13.070 Availability of records or information to parties to judicial or administrative proceedings—Discovery proceedings—Subpoenas.
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Information or records deemed private and confidential under this chapter shall be available to parties to judicial or formal administrative proceedings only upon a written finding by the presiding officer that the need for the information or records in the proceeding outweighs a…
RCW 50.13.080 Disclosure of records or information to private persons or organizations contracting to assist in operation and management of department—Penalties.
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(1) The employment security department shall have the right to disclose information or records deemed private and confidential under this chapter to any private person or organization when such disclosure is necessary to permit private contracting parties to assist in the operati…
RCW 50.13.090 Disclosure of records or information to contracting governmental or private organizations.
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Where the employment security department contracts to provide services to other governmental or private organizations, the department may disclose to those organizations information or records deemed private and confidential which have been acquired in the performance of the depa…
RCW 50.13.100 Disclosure of records or information where identifying details deleted or individual or employing unit consents.
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Nothing in this chapter shall prevent the disclosure of information or records deemed private and confidential under this chapter if all details identifying an individual or employing unit are deleted so long as the information or records cannot be foreseeably combined with other…
RCW 50.13.110 Disclosure of confidential information—Duty to prevent—Prohibition—Penalties—Exemptions.
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(1) All private persons, governmental agencies, and organizations authorized to receive information from the employment security department under this chapter have an affirmative obligation to take all reasonable actions necessary that are designed to prevent the disclosure of co…
RCW 50.13.120 Administration and oversight of this chapter—Agency privacy officer—Report to governor and legislature.
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(1) The employment security department shall designate an agency privacy officer to oversee the administration of this chapter and chapter 50A.25 RCW. In coordination with the state office of privacy and data protection, the agency privacy officer must:(a) Develop an agency perso…
RCW 50.13.130 Application to information obtained by the employment security department under Title 50A RCW.
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Except for RCW 50.13.120, the provisions of this chapter do not apply to information obtained by the employment security department under Title 50A RCW.[ 2019 c 81 s 11.]
RCW 50.13.900 Construction.
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Any ambiguities in this chapter shall be construed in a manner consistent with federal laws applying to the employment security department. If any provision of this chapter or the application thereof is held invalid by a final decision of any court or declared by the secretary of…
RCW 50.16.010 Unemployment compensation fund—Administrative contingency fund.
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(1) There shall be maintained as special funds, separate and apart from all public moneys or funds of this state an unemployment compensation fund and an administrative contingency fund, which shall be administered by the commissioner exclusively for the purposes of this title, a…
RCW 50.16.020 Administration of funds—Accounts.
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The commissioner shall designate a treasurer and custodian of the unemployment compensation fund and of the administrative contingency fund, who shall administer such funds in accordance with the directions of the commissioner and shall issue his or her warrants upon them in acco…
RCW 50.16.030 Withdrawals from federal unemployment trust fund.
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(1) Moneys shall be requisitioned from this state's account in the unemployment trust fund solely for the payment of benefits and repayment of loans from the federal government to guarantee solvency of the unemployment compensation fund in accordance with regulations prescribed b…
RCW 50.16.040 Management of funds upon discontinuance of federal unemployment trust fund.
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The provisions of this title, to the extent that they relate to the unemployment trust fund, shall be operative only so long as such unemployment trust fund continues to exist and so long as the secretary of the treasury of the United States of America continues to maintain for t…
RCW 50.16.050 Unemployment compensation administration fund.
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(1) There is hereby established a fund to be known as the unemployment compensation administration fund. Except as otherwise provided in this section, all moneys which are deposited or paid into this fund are hereby made available to the commissioner. All moneys in this fund shal…
RCW 50.16.060 Replacement of federal funds.
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The state of Washington hereby pledges that it will replace within a reasonable time any moneys paid to this state under Title III of the social security act, and the Wagner-Peyser act, which, because of any action or contingency, have been lost or have been expended for purposes…
RCW 50.16.070 Federal interest payment fund—Employer contributions—When payable—Maximum rate—Deduction from remuneration unlawful.
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The federal interest payment fund shall consist of contributions payable by each employer (except employers as described in RCW 50.44.010 and 50.44.030 who have properly elected to make payments in lieu of contributions, employers who are required to make payments in lieu of cont…
RCW 50.16.080 Federal targeted jobs tax credit program—Administration—Processing fee—Deposit of fees.
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The cost of administering the federal targeted jobs tax credit program shall be fully borne by the employers requesting the credits. The commissioner shall establish the amount of the processing fee and procedures for collecting the fee. The commissioner shall establish the proce…
RCW 50.16.100 COVID-19 unemployment account.
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(1) The COVID-19 unemployment account is created in the custody of the state treasurer. Revenues to the account shall consist of appropriations and transfers by the legislature and all other funding directed for deposit into the account. Only the commissioner of the employment se…
RCW 50.20.010 Benefit eligibility conditions.
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(1) An unemployed individual shall be eligible to receive waiting period credits or benefits with respect to any week in his or her eligibility period only if the commissioner finds that:(a) The individual has registered for work at, and thereafter has continued to report at, an …
RCW 50.20.011 Profiling system to identify individuals likely to exhaust benefits—Confidentiality of information—Penalty.
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(1) The commissioner shall establish and use a profiling system for new claimants for regular compensation under this title that identifies permanently separated workers who are likely to exhaust regular compensation and will need job search assistance services to make a successf…
RCW 50.20.012 Rules—1995 c 381.
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The commissioner may adopt rules as necessary to implement the 1995 c 381 §§ 1 and *3 amendments to RCW 50.20.010 and 50.20.043 and 50.20.011, including but not limited to definitions, eligibility standards, program review criteria and procedures, and provisions necessary to comp…
RCW 50.20.020 Waiting period credit limitation.
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(1) No week shall be counted as a waiting period week if benefits have been paid for that week, the individual was otherwise eligible for benefits, and it occurs within the benefit year which includes the week with respect to which the individual claims payment of benefits.(2) If…
RCW 50.20.041 Health care professionals who have contracted hepatitis C—Training.
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(1) Credentialed health care professionals listed in RCW 18.130.040 shall be deemed to be dislocated workers for the purpose of commissioner approval of training under RCW 50.20.043 if they are unemployed as a result of contracting hepatitis C in the course of employment and are …
RCW 50.20.042 Unemployed aerospace workers—Training.
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Aerospace workers unemployed as the result of downsizing and restructuring of the aerospace industry will be deemed to be dislocated workers for the purpose of commissioner approval of training under RCW 50.20.043.[ 1993 c 226 s 7.]Notes:Conflict with federal requirements—Severab…
RCW 50.20.043 Training provision.
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No otherwise eligible individual shall be denied benefits for any week because the individual is in training with the approval of the commissioner, nor shall such individual be denied benefits with respect to any week in which the individual is satisfactorily progressing in a tra…
RCW 50.20.044 Ineligibility for benefits for failure to attend job search workshop or training course.
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If an otherwise eligible individual fails without good cause, as determined by the commissioner under rules prescribed by the commissioner, to attend a job search workshop or a training or retraining course when directed by the department and such workshop or course is available …
RCW 50.20.050 Disqualification for leaving work voluntarily without good cause.
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(1) With respect to separations that occur on or after September 6, 2009, and for separations that occur before April 4, 2021:(a) A claimant shall be disqualified from benefits beginning with the first day of the calendar week in which the claimant left work voluntarily without g…
RCW 50.20.060 Disqualification from benefits due to misconduct.
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With respect to claims that have an effective date before January 4, 2004, an individual shall be disqualified from benefits beginning with the first day of the calendar week in which he or she has been discharged or suspended for misconduct connected with his or her work and the…