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Bill to align state WARN-like law with tribal sovereignty and privacy draws mixed testimony
Summary
Substitute Senate Bill 6106 would amend the state's layoff-notice law to exclude tribes and wholly tribal-owned businesses from the employer definition, exempt employee names/addresses from public disclosure, and limit name/address requirements to notices to ESD and bargaining representatives; ESD and business groups supported the privacy and tribal-exemption changes while growers urged an ag-season exemption to avoid unintended liabilities.
Committee staff described gross substitute Senate Bill 6106, which modifies the state's secure timely notification framework modeled after the federal WARN Act. The bill would exclude tribes and businesses wholly owned by tribes from the employer definition so the notice requirement would not apply to them. It would exempt the names and addresses of affected employees provided to the Employment…
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