Seattle City Council Rent-Control Runaround
The Seattle City Council continues its streak of government-intrusive policies, on Monday unanimously passing restrictions on how much landlords can charge tenants for move-in costs. You can read all about it in The Seattle Times: It’s not rent control, which state law prohibits Seattle from enacting. But City Councilmember Kshama Sawant thinks this ordinance is the […]
20th of September 2016
Seattle's new job-scheduling mandate: Union recruiting tool?
To the surprise of no one, the Seattle City Council yesterday approved the most restrictive employee-scheduling mandate in the country. Coined "secure scheduling" by the labor groups that backed the effort to pass it, the new law – which goes into effect next July – is far-reaching. As The Seattle Times reports, Employers would be […]