{"id":"AGY-ST-LABOR-WORKPLACE-083","kind":"order","level":"sector-regulator","jurisdiction":"Washington; Employment Security Department (statewide unemployment insurance agency)","state":"WA","metro":"","industry":"","agency":"ST-LABOR-WORKPLACE","eco":"","issuer":"Washington Employment Security Department","authority":"RCW 50.20.010, 50.20.240; Governor\u0027s proclamations","instrument":"ESD notice, \u0027Job search requirement goes back into effect in July\u0027 (updated June 15, 2021)","title":"Job search requirement goes back into effect in July: claimants must begin job search activities the week of July 4-10, 2021 and report them starting the week of July 11, 2021","dateIssued":"2021-06-15","effective":"Job search activities required from the week of July 4, 2021; reporting from the week of July 11, 2021","end":"n/a (end of the waiver that had run from March 2020)","startDate":"2021-07-04","endDate":"","quarters":["2021Q2"],"types":["OTHER"],"addressees":["unemployment insurance claimants (regular UI, PEUC and PUA)"],"clause":"The governor, with support from the Legislature, suspended the job search requirement at the [start of the pandemic]... With the economy recovering, the job search requirement is going back into effect.... You must begin your job search activities the week of July 4 to July 10. You must report those activities starting the week of July 11, and every week [thereafter]... At least three approved job search activities each week if you are receiving regular [unemployment benefits].","enforcement":"Denial of weekly benefits for failure to complete and report job search activities (RCW 50.20.010, 50.20.240)","functions":["WF workforce availability: the State suspended the legal obligation of benefit recipients to seek work from March 2020 until the week of July 4, 2021 (a Q3 2021 fact bearing on hiring in every Washington industry)","HR recruiting"],"notes":"Facts and circumstances, not an order limiting commerce; pleaded as the regulatory setting in which Washington employers recruited through 2021 Q2 and into Q3.","sourceUrl":"https://esd.wa.gov/newsroom/job-search","snapshot":"http://web.archive.org/web/20210622213725/https://esd.wa.gov/newsroom/job-search","fileExists":true,"fileBytes":321929,"grade":"primary","character":"","description":"","collection":"AGY-ST-LABOR-WORKPLACE","url":"/library/AGY-ST-LABOR-WORKPLACE-083","exhibitUrl":"/exhibit/AGY-ST-LABOR-WORKPLACE-083","citation":"Washington Employment Security Department, ESD notice, \u0027Job search requirement goes back into effect in July\u0027 (updated June 15, 2021) (Ex. AGY-ST-LABOR-WORKPLACE-083)","stateName":"Washington","related":[]}