Washington Policy On The Go is WPC’s bi-weekly (weekly during the legislative session) virtual lunchtime event series featuring center directors and guests to inform you on the latest in Washington State policy research and analysis. In this video we chat with WPC’s Center for Worker Rights Director who talks about how workers were impacted by the legislative session, both bad and good.
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00:00 – Introduction
00:19 – HB 2091 and union access to worker info
02:15 – Why public-union data sharing is unusual
04:38 – How HB 2091 expands the practice
06:13 – Why opt-out rights are hard to find
09:43 – Domestic worker law setup
10:34 – Who counts as a domestic worker
12:55 – What families may be required to do
15:21 – Why informal work gets more complicated
19:25 – Income tax warning and budget outlook
24:00 – Why a new tax layer won’t reduce regressivity
26:25 – Good news on worker mobility
26:43 – HB 2088 and the dietitian compact
28:30 – SB 6134 and strike-benefit overpayments
30:41 – Why SB 5041 created the problem
31:23 – Why the overpayment notice fix matters
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