OLYMPIA, Wash. — Washington state’s Equal Pay Act dates to the 1940s, requiring men and women to receive the same pay for the same work. More than seven decades later, a bill up… Read More
OLYMPIA, Wash. — Business groups are lining up in opposition to a bill in Washington state that would forbid commercial interests from obtaining or selling biometric information from individuals without their consent. “Biometric… Read More
Legislation is delayed until at least next year on banning non-compete provisions from employment agreements in Washington state. The Washington House did not act on a bill by Rep. Derek Stanford,… Read More
HANFORD, Wash. – Physicists here had to keep mum for nearly five months about the gravitational-wave breakthrough they helped make, but they made up for their silence today with superlatives. “I looked… Read More
OLYMPIA, Wash. — A bill to ban many non-compete provisions from employment agreements in Washington state passed out of the House Labor & Workplace Committee on Tuesday by a 4-2 vote, and is… Read More
OLYMPIA, Wash. — Business interests lined up Monday against two Washington House bills that seek to ban some or all non-compete provisions from employment contracts. The Washington Technology Industry Association,… Read More
The Washington state legislature is looking at reviving two expired high-tech research-and development tax breaks — minus the previous exemptions for advanced computing and some electronic device technology. The previous… Read More
OLYMPIA, Wash. — A bill to exempt crowdfunding efforts from the state sales tax and business-and-occupation tax is working its way through the Washington House. The House Finance Committee held a hearing… Read More
OLYMPIA, Wash. — Public hearings will be held Monday on two Washington House bills that seek to ban some or all non-compete provisions from employment contracts. The bills would bring Washington… Read More
OLYMPIA, Wash. — The Washington Attorney General’s Office says it is premature to tweak Washington’s 2015 law against using ticket bots to pillage vast amount of show tickets. Rep. Jesse Young,… Read More
OLYMPIA, Wash. — A Washington Senate bill proposes to turn a variety of malicious online activities into actually prosecutable crimes with prison times and fines. The Senate Law & Justice Committee held a… Read More
OLYMPIA, Wash. — You can start your own office pool on what fantasy sports in Washington state will look like after July 1. That’s when a new fantasy sports law could go… Read More
OLYMPIA, Wash. — A bill is in play in Washington state Legislature to get the state government deeply involved in nurturing Washington’s fledgling space-exploration industry. The bipartisan House bill by… Read More
OLYMPIA, Wash. — Washington state Sen. Marko Liias suspects that ticket bots are creating skyrocketing prices for the July 26 Adele concert at Seattle’s Key Arena — and he is… Read More
