Workers’ compensation, unemployment insurance, and quarantines
Given the coronavirus outbreak in Washington, policymakers are considering how workers’ compensation and unemployment insurance should be applied when workers are quarantined. Today Gov. Inslee and the Department of Labor and Industries (L&I) announced: L&I is immediately changing its policy around workers’ compensation coverage for health care workers and first responders who are quarantined by […]
4th of March 2020
Should the state use the rainy day fund to respond to the coronavirus outbreak?
On Feb. 29, Gov. Inslee declared a state of emergency in response to Washington’s coronavirus outbreak. On March 2, the Department of Health (DOH) gave a presentation to the Senate Ways and Means Committee in which DOH estimated that the public health system and the Department of Social and Health Services (DSHS) could need $100 […]