"Employer" means any individual or type of organization, including any partnership, association, trust, estate, joint stock company, insurance company, limited liability company, or corporation, whether domestic or foreign, or the receiver, trustee in bankruptcy, trustee, or the legal representative of a deceased person, having any person in employment or, having become an employer, has not ceased to be an employer as provided in this title.
RCW 50.04.080
Employer.
Known as the Employment Security Act
The act spans §§ 50.01.005 to 50.98.110 (395 sections).
Applied in 5 court decisions — leading case 71 Wash. App. 23 - Cascade Nursing Services, Ltd. v. Employment Security Department (1993)
Most recently applied in Gronquist v. Department of Licensing (July 2013)
2013 c 250 s 3; 2007 c 146 s 19; 1985 c 41 s 1; 1971 c 3 s 5; 1949 c 214 s 2; 1945 c 35 s 9; Rem
How often courts cite this section
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.