Nothing in RCW 49.48.040 through 49.48.080 shall apply to the payment of wages or compensation of employees directly employed by any county, incorporated city or town, or other municipal corporation. Nor shall anything herein apply to employees, directly employed by the state, any department, bureau, office, board, commission or institution hereof.
RCW 49.48.080
Public employees excluded.
Applied in 6 court decisions — leading case 78 Wash. App. 63 - Cohn v. Department of Corrections (1995)
Most recently applied in Arnold v. City of Seattle (May 2016)
1935 c 96 s 5; RRS s 7596-5.
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Court decisions citing this, by year. The dip in the last several years is a data-coverage gap, not a real trend — our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so recent citations are undercounted.
Official source: Washington State Legislature. Reproduced from public-domain Washington statutes; confirm against the official source for the current text. Not legal advice.