ESSB 5041: Concerning unemployment insurance benefits for striking or lockout workers.
Signed into law: Chapter 352, Laws of 2025
- Sponsor
- Riccelli
- Introduced
- January 13, 2025
- Status
- C 352 L 25
- Last action
- Effective date 7/27/2025*. (May 19, 2025)
- As of
- October 16, 2026, 5:15 AM Pacific, from the Legislature’s records
What this bill does
Allows individuals unemployed due to a labor strike to receive up to 12 weeks of unemployment insurance (UI) benefits following a specified disqualification period, from January 1, 2026, through December 31, 2035. Removes the disqualification from UI benefits based on an employer-initiated lockout resulting from a strike against another employer in a multi-employer bargaining unit, from January 1, 2026, through December 31, 2035.
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Floor votes
- House: Final Passage as Amended by the House · April 12, 202552 yea · 43 nay · 3 not voting
- House: Grant Conference · April 23, 202553 yea · 45 nay
- House: Adoption as Recommended by the Conference Committee · April 25, 202553 yea · 43 nay · 2 not voting
- House: Final Passage as Recommended by the Conference Committee · April 25, 202551 yea · 45 nay · 2 not voting
- House: Motion to Immediately Transmit to Senate · April 25, 202555 yea · 41 nay · 2 not voting
- Senate: Final Passage as Recommended by Conference Committee · April 25, 202527 yea · 21 nay
- Senate: Do Not Concur in House Amendment(s) · April 22, 202525 yea · 23 nay
- Senate: 3rd Reading & Final Passage · March 7, 202528 yea · 21 nay
- Senate: 148 Braun Pg 2 Ln 13 · March 7, 202524 yea · 25 nay
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