ESSB 5368: Expanding access to the workers' compensation stay-at-work program through off-site light duty return to work opportunities.

What this bill does

Establishes additional requirements for requesting, reviewing, and accepting light duty and transitional job offers made to injured workers in the workers' compensation system. Allows an employer with 100 or fewer employers to offer an injured worker a light duty or transitional job with an off-site nonprofit organization or charity.

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Floor votes

• Senate: 3rd Reading & Final Passage · February 1, 2024
  44 yea · 4 nay · 1 not voting

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• SSB 5110: Adding penalties for certain prohibited practices in chapter 49.44 RCW.
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• SSB 5417: Protecting the rights of workers to refrain from attending meetings or listening to their employer's speech on political or religious matters.