WA Employment Law

If your business has employees in Washington, you should know that the state has quietly become one of the most active battlegrounds in the country for employment class action lawsuits. According to a recent analysis by the law firm Davis Wright Tremaine, employment class action filings in Washington jumped from just 54 in 2023 to 773 in 2025 — a roughly fourteen-fold increase — with another 658 filings already logged in the first half of 2026 alone. That's not a blip. It's a

Washington State is expanding its WA PFML program in 2026. If you have 25 or more employees, these changes affect who must provide leave benefits and how job protection works alongside federal laws.