America needs more skilled trade workers, here’s what’s being done about it States enacted 115 Career and Technical Education (CTE) policies in 2023 Federal legislation has also been introduced to address the worker shortage Combatting the negative stigma around trade jobs remains a challenge (NewsNation) — America needs more skilled trade workers and data suggests states have […]

LawFlash Washington State Expands Its Noncompete Law June 10, 2024 While the Federal Trade Commission’s new noncompete ban is facing challenges on multiple fronts, Washington State has enacted its own new restriction on noncompetes. Effective June 6, 2024, employers must comply with the new worker-friendly amendments to Washington State’s existing noncompete law. WASHINGTON’S EXISTING NONCOMPETE LAW Under Washington’s existing […]

After almost half a year of contract negotiations, public service workers who are members of Washington Federation of State Employees (WFSE/AFSCME Council 28) have ratified a new general government contract. Applicable to a majority of the members, the new contract includes strong wage increases, a minimum wage of $18 an hour, and expanded leave, among […]

Why Trump’s Buyout Plan Is Poised to Fail in Spurring Resignations 1 of 4 (Bloomberg) — President–elect Donald Trump’s plans to shrink the federal workforce would have disparate impacts on Black employment, while potentially eroding a key conduit to economic mobility that many Black families have relied on for generations. Most Read from Bloomberg These Homes […]

Job opportunities will grow significantly over the next eight years, but the number of skilled workers able to fill those jobs is not enough. Washington will have more than 1.5 million job openings in the next eight years but it’s not currently training enough people to fill them. A new report from the Washington Roundtable Partnership […]