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Current as of January 01, 2025 | Updated by Findlaw Staff
Unless the context clearly requires otherwise, the definitions in this section apply throughout this chapter.
(1) “Job service” means the employment assistance program of the employment security department;
(2) “Employment assistance” means services to unemployed persons focused on and measured by the obtaining of employment;
(3) “Labor exchange” means those activities which match labor supply and labor demand, including recruitment, screening, and referral of qualified workers to employers;
(4) “Special account of the administrative contingency fund” means that fund under RCW 50.24.014 established within the administrative contingency fund of the employment security department which provides revenue for the purposes of this chapter.
(5) “Continuous wage and benefit history” means an information and research system utilizing a longitudinal database containing information on both employment and unemployment.
(6) “Long-term unemployed” means demographic groups of unemployment insurance claimants identified by the employment security department pursuant to RCW 50.62.040(1)(e) which have the highest percentages of persons who have drawn at least fifteen weeks of unemployment insurance benefits or have the highest percentage of persons who have exhausted their unemployment insurance benefits.
(7) “Older unemployed workers” means unemployment insurance claimants who are at least fifty years of age.
Cite this article: FindLaw.com - Washington Revised Code Title 50. Unemployment Compensation § 50.62.020. Definitions - last updated January 01, 2025 | https://codes.findlaw.com/wa/title-50-unemployment-compensation/wa-rev-code-50-62-020/
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