RCW 49.80.040
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(1)Failure to comply with the skilled and trained workforce requirements of this chapter, except the requirement that a worker be paid at a rate commensurate with wages typically paid for the occupation, constitutes a violation of chapter 49.17 RCW.
(2)The wage rate requirement of RCW 49.80.010 (7)(b) constitutes a wage payment requirement as defined in RCW 49.48.082 .
[ 2019 c 306 s 4 .]
RCW 49.80.040
Failure to comply constitutes violation of chapter 49.17 RCW — Wage rate requirements constitute a wage payment requirement. (Effective January 1, 2026.)
(1)Failure to comply with the skilled and trained workforce requirements of this chapter, except the requirement that a worker be paid at a rate commensurate with wages typically paid for the occupation, constitutes a violation of chapter 49.17 RCW.
(2)The wage rate requirement of RCW 49.80.010 (8)(b) constitutes a wage payment requirement as defined in RCW 49.48.082 .
(3)A worker in an apprenticeable occupation performing work under this chapter who does not meet the definition of a registered apprentice in RCW 49.80.010
(6)or the definition of a skilled journeyperson in RCW 49.80.010
(8)constitutes a skilled journeyperson solely for the purposes of the wage requirement owed to the worker.
[ 2025 c 210 s 2 ; 2019 c 306 s 4 .]
Notes:
Effective date — 2025 c 210: "This act takes effect January 1, 2026." [ 2025 c 210 s 3 .]