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The record
- Jurisdiction
- Washington; Employment Security Department (statewide unemployment insurance agency) · Washington
- Level
- Sector regulator
- Authority
- RCW 50.20.010, 50.20.240; Governor's proclamations
- Issued
- 2021-06-15 June 15, 2021
- Effective
- Job search activities required from the week of July 4, 2021; reporting from the week of July 11, 2021 (read as 2021-07-04)
- End
- n/a (end of the waiver that had run from March 2020)
- In force
- July 4, 2021 (no end date recorded; counted as in force for 120 days)
- Quarters
- 2021 Q2
2020 Q22020 Q32020 Q42021 Q12021 Q22021 Q3
- Limitation types
- Other
- Addressees
- unemployment insurance claimants (regular UI, PEUC and PUA)
- Functions reached
- 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
- Collection
- State labor and workplace-safety agencies AGY-ST-LABOR-WORKPLACE
Operative words
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)
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.