RCW 51.12.010 Employments included—Declaration of policy. There is a hazard in all employment and it is the purpose of this title to embrace all employments which are within the legislative jurisdiction of the state. This title shall be liberally construed for the purpose of reducing to a minimum the suffering and economic loss arising from […]
RCW 51.12.020 Employments excluded. (Effective until January 1, 2023.) The following are the only employments which shall not be included within the mandatory coverage of this title: (1) Any person employed as a domestic servant in a private home by an employer who has less than two employees regularly employed forty or more hours a […]
RCW 51.12.025 Persons working on parents’ family farms—Optional exclusion from coverage. (1) The parent or parents of a person at least eighteen years of age but under twenty-one years of age may elect to exclude from mandatory coverage under this title the parent’s employment of that person in agricultural activities on their family farm if: […]
RCW 51.12.035 Volunteers. (1) Volunteers shall be deemed employees and/or workers, as the case may be, for all purposes relating to medical aid benefits under chapter 51.36 RCW. A “volunteer” shall mean a person who performs any assigned or authorized duties for the state or any agency thereof, except emergency services workers as described by […]
RCW 51.12.045 Offenders performing community restitution. Offenders performing community restitution pursuant to court order or under RCW 13.40.080 may be deemed employees and/or workers under this title at the option of the state, county, city, town, or nonprofit organization under whose authorization the community restitution is performed. Any premiums or assessments due under this title […]
RCW 51.12.050 Public entity work—Partnerships with volunteer groups and businesses for community improvement projects. (1) Whenever a public entity engages in any work, or let a contract therefor, in which workers are employed for wages, this title shall be applicable thereto. The employer’s payments into the accident fund shall be made from the treasury of […]
RCW 51.12.060 Federal projects. The application of this title and related safety laws is hereby extended to all lands and premises owned or held by the United States of America, by deed or act of cession, by purchase or otherwise, which are within the exterior boundaries of the state of Washington, and to all projects, […]
RCW 51.12.070 Work done by contract—Subcontractors—Nonemergency transportation brokers. The provisions of this title apply to all work done by contract; the person, firm, or corporation who lets a contract for such work is responsible primarily and directly for all premiums upon the work, except as provided in subsection (2) of this section. The contractor and […]
RCW 51.12.080 Railway employees. Inasmuch as it has proved impossible in the case of employees of common carriers by railroad, engaged in maintenance and operation of railways doing interstate, foreign, and intrastate commerce, and in maintenance and construction of their equipment, to separate and distinguish the connection of such employees with interstate or foreign commerce […]
RCW 51.12.090 Intrastate and interstate commerce. The provisions of this title shall apply to employers and workers (other than railways and their workers) engaged in intrastate and also in interstate or foreign commerce, for whom a rule of liability or method of compensation now exists under or may hereafter be established by the congress of […]
RCW 51.12.095 Common carrier employees—Owners and operators of trucks. (1) Common or contract carriers doing business in this state that are engaged exclusively in interstate or foreign commerce, or any combination thereof, shall provide coverage under this title for their Washington employees, unless the employer has furnished workers’ compensation insurance coverage under the laws of […]
RCW 51.12.100 Maritime occupations—Segregation of payrolls—Common enterprise—Geoduck harvesting. (1) Except as otherwise provided in this section, the provisions of this title shall not apply to a master or member of a crew of any vessel, or to employers and workers for whom a right or obligation exists under the maritime laws or federal employees’ compensation […]
RCW 51.12.102 Maritime workers—Asbestos-related disease. (1) The department shall furnish the benefits provided under this title to any worker or beneficiary who may have a right or claim for benefits under the maritime laws of the United States resulting from an asbestos-related disease if (a) there are objective clinical findings to substantiate that the worker […]
RCW 51.12.110 Elective adoption—Withdrawal—Cancellation. Any employer who has in his or her employment any person or persons excluded from mandatory coverage pursuant to RCW 51.12.020 may file notice in writing with the director, on such forms as the department may provide, of his or her election to make such persons otherwise excluded subject to this […]
RCW 51.12.120 Extraterritorial coverage. (1) If a worker, while working outside the territorial limits of this state, suffers an injury on account of which he or she, or his or her beneficiaries, would have been entitled to compensation under this title had the injury occurred within this state, the worker, or his or her beneficiaries, […]
RCW 51.12.130 Registered apprentices or trainees. (1) All persons registered as apprentices or trainees with the state apprenticeship council and participating in supplemental and related instruction classes conducted by a school district, a community college, a vocational school, or a local joint apprenticeship committee, shall be considered as workers of the state apprenticeship council and […]
RCW 51.12.140 Volunteer law enforcement officers. (1) As used in this section: (a) “Municipal corporation” means any city, town, or county authorized by law to maintain and operate a law enforcement department; (b) “Law enforcement department” means any regularly organized police department, sheriff’s department, department of public safety, or other similar organization which has as […]
RCW 51.12.150 Musicians and entertainers. Any musician or entertainer who performs as a member of a group or recognized entity is deemed an employee of the group or entity and the leader of the group or entity shall be required to properly register as an employer with the department and pay industrial insurance premiums on […]
RCW 51.12.160 Foreign degree-granting institutions—Employee services in country of domicile. The services of employees of a foreign degree-granting institution who are nonimmigrant aliens under the immigration laws of the United States, shall, for the purposes of RCW 51.12.120, be considered to be localized or principally localized, in the country of domicile of the foreign degree-granting […]
RCW 51.12.170 Student volunteers and unpaid students. (1) An employer covered under this title may elect to include student volunteers or unpaid students as employees or workers for all purposes relating to medical aid benefits under chapter 51.36 RCW. The employer shall give notice of its intent to cover all of its student volunteers or […]
