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ESD outlines status of bills affecting UI: WARN changes, employer reporting and striking‑worker notices

Employment Security Department · February 20, 2026
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Summary

ESD government relations staff summarized four bills of interest, including a State WARN Act implementation bill, an employer reporting bill allowing some waivers, a strike‑notification bill and a house OAH bill on UI notices that missed cutoff.

Josh Dye, government relations director, briefed the committee on four bills the agency has tracked this session.

Dye described an agency‑request bill to modify the State WARN Act (referred to in the transcript as "senate bill 6106") and said the bill’s original language removed tribes from the employer definition and proposed restricting…

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