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                                                   SENATE BILL NO. 5458

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State of Washington                               51st Legislature                              1989 Regular Session

By Senators Smitherman, Warnke and Bender

Read first time 1/25/89 and referred to Committee on   Economic Development & Labor.

AN ACT Relating to activities of the employment security department in relation to prohibited practices in employment; and amending RCW 49.44.100.

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

        Sec. 1.  Section 1, chapter 180, Laws of 1961 and RCW 49.44.100 are each amended to read as follows:

          It shall be unlawful for any person, firm or corporation not directly involved in a labor strike or lockout to recruit and bring into this state from outside this state any person or persons for employment, or to secure or offer to secure for such person or persons any employment, when the purpose of such recruiting, securing or offering to secure employment, is to have such persons take the place in employment of employees in a business owned by a person, firm or corporation involved in a labor strike or lockout, or to have such persons act as pickets of a business owned by a person, firm or corporation where a labor strike or lockout exists((:  PROVIDED, That this section and RCW 49.44.110 shall not apply to activities and services offered by or through the Washington employment security department)).