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                                         SUBSTITUTE SENATE BILL NO. 5586

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State of Washington                              50th Legislature                              1988 Regular Session

By Senate Committee on Economic Development & Labor (originally sponsored by Senators Lee, Tanner, West and Bauer; by request of Department of Labor and Industries)

Read first time 1/28/88.

AN ACT Relating to hours of labor; and adding a new section to chapter 49.28 RCW.

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

NEW SECTION. Sec. 1.  A new section is added to chapter 49.28 RCW to read as follows:

          Notwithstanding the provisions of RCW 49.28.010 through 49.28.060, a contractor or subcontractor in any public works contract subject to those provisions may enter into an agreement with his or her employees in which the employees work up to ten hours in a calendar day.  No such agreement may provide that the employees work ten-hour days for more than four calendar days a week.  Any such agreement is subject to approval by the employees.