BILL REQ. #:  S-0996.1 

Read first time 01/30/09.   Referred to Committee on Labor, Commerce & Consumer Protection.

     AN ACT Relating to exempting language service providers from the definition of employment and worker for the purposes of unemployment compensation and industrial insurance; adding a new section to chapter 50.04 RCW; and adding a new section to chapter 51.08 RCW.

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

NEW SECTION.  Sec. 1   A new section is added to chapter 50.04 RCW to read as follows:
     The term "employment" shall not include services performed by an interpreter or translator under a written contract with a language service provider for a specific engagement when the interpreter or translator performs no other duties for the language service provider and is not regularly and continuously employed by the language service provider.

NEW SECTION.  Sec. 2   A new section is added to chapter 51.08 RCW to read as follows:
     A person is not a "worker" for the purposes of this title, with respect to his or her activities performed as an interpreter or translator under a written contract with a language service provider when the interpreter or translator performs no other duties for the language service provider and is not regularly and continuously employed by the language service provider.