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                                                   SENATE BILL NO. 3016

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State of Washington                              49th Legislature                              1985 Regular Session

By Senator Williams

Prefiled with Secretary of the Senate 12/24/84.  Read first time 1/15/85 and referred to Committee on Commerce and Labor.

AN ACT Relating to cessations of business operations; and adding a new section to chapter 49.48 RCW.

BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF WASHINGTON:

NEW SECTION. Sec. 1.  A new section is added to chapter 49.48 RCW to read as follows:

          (1) Every employer employing one hundred or more persons in this state who has decided upon a merger, liquidation, disposition, or relocation within or without the state, resulting in a cessation of business operations affecting ten or more employees shall promptly notify the department, any affected employee, any collective bargaining representative of any affected employee, and the clerk of any town, city, or county in which the affected place of employment is located, in writing of such action no later than sixty days before the date that such merger, liquidation, disposition, relocation, or cessation takes place.  The employer shall provide in writing all information concerning its payroll, affected employees and the wages and other remuneration owed to such employees as the department may require.  The department may in addition require the employer to submit a plan setting forth the manner in which final payment in full shall be made to affected employees.  The department shall promptly provide a copy of the notice required under this subsection to the department of commerce and economic development.

          (2) Any employer who violates subsection (1) of this section, or who fails or refuses to provide all information or a plan for final payment as the department requires is guilty of a misdemeanor and may be fined not more than fifty dollars for each employee whose employment has been terminated as a result of such merger, liquidation, disposition, relocation, or cessation of business operations.