Other LanguagesApplicability of public employees' retirement system (PERS) to employees of private transportation company acquired by Metro Transit; entitlement of such employees to service credit for periods of employment with private company; funding of such service credit by employer; impact of labor contract between Metro Transit and bargaining representative of employees on the foregoing.
Under Article II, § 25 (Amendment 35) of the state constitution, a retroactive pay increase for college and university classified employees would be unconstitutional; however, the higher education personnel board may implement § 2, chapter 9, Laws of 1975 by providing for pay raises to take effect as of March 1, 1975, for those personnel still employed in the positions covered on and after the date of the board's action granting the raises.
The extent to which RCW 41.06.250(2) supersedes § 560 of the King county charter restricting political activities by county employees.
RCW 81.40.060 does not prohibit a railroad from requiring it employees to purchase their own uniforms; instead, the statute merely makes it unlawful for a railroad or other transportation company to require its employees to purchase uniforms from a particular vendor.
In adopting sick leave policies for its professional staff employees under RCW 28B.50.551, a community college district may not provide for the establishment of a "sick leave bank" into which voluntarily participating employees would be allowed to contribute a designated amount of their accumulated sick leave which could thereafter be withdrawn and used by any participants in the plan who have exhausted all of their own accumulated sick leave benefits.
Court reporters appointed by the various superior court judges under RCW 2.32.180 are employees of the county or counties whose superior courts they serve pursuant to such appointments.
The governing body of a state college or university does not have the authority to grant formal recognition to a single employee organization as exclusive bargaining agent for the faculty.
A proposal to amend House Bill No. 1054 at the September legislative session so as to cause the terminal leave benefits provided for therein to be applicable, retroactively, to employees previously terminated by reason of the state facility to be closed would be unconstitutional.
Where a public utility district has less than the minimum number of employees required to contract for group insurance, it may not provide insurance for its commissioners.
(1) A school district may not offer employment to a certificated employee under circumstances not covered by either RCW 28A.67.900 or the second paragraph of RCW 28A.67.074 by tendering a contract to that individual which contains a condition that the employee waives his rights under RCW 28A.67.070 or 28A.58.450. (2) If an employee signs such a contract, that waiver condition is not valid or enforceable.