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Washington State Legislature Fails to Approve Unemployment Benefits for Striking Workers

House Bill (“HB”) 1893 has not passed after it failed to advance to the Senate floor by the March 1 cutoff. The bill, if passed, would have allowed workers who walk off the job to strike to qualify for up to four weeks of unemployment insurance benefits. Employees would have become eligible on the second Sunday following the first day of a strike and could then begin to receive benefit payments after an additional one-week waiting period. Additionally, had the bill passed, employees would have also no longer been disqualified from unemployment insurance during employer-initiated labor lockouts. The bill, which was sponsored by Rep. Beth Doglio, D-Olympia, and 50 other representatives, passed the House on February 12 with a vote of 53-44 but failed to make it to the Senate floor before a key cutoff deadline on March 1.