Revised Code of Washington - RCW Title 50 Unemployment Compensation - Chapter 50.04 Definitions

50.04.020 Base year -- Alternative base year
"Base year" with respect to each individual, shall mean either the first four of the last five completed calendar quarters or the last four completed ...

50.04.030 Benefit year
"Benefit year" with respect to each individual, means the fifty-two consecutive week period beginning with the first day of the calendar week in which the ...

50.04.040 Benefits
"Benefits" means the compensation payable to an individual, as provided in this title, with respect to his unemployment.[1945 c 35 § 5; Rem. Supp. 1945 ...

50.04.050 Calendar quarter
"Calendar quarter" means the period of three consecutive calendar months ending on March 31st, June 30th, September 30th, or December 31st.[1945 c 35 § 6; ...

50.04.060 Commissioner
"Commissioner" means the administrative head of the state employment security department referred to in this title.[1947 c 215 § 1; 1945 c 35 § 7; ...

50.04.065 Common paymaster or pay agent
(1) For purposes of this title, "common paymaster" or "common pay agent" means an independent third party who contracts with, and represents, two or more ...

50.04.070 Contributions
"Contributions" means the money payments due to the state unemployment compensation fund as provided in RCW 50.24.010, to the federal interest payment fund under RCW ...

50.04.072 Contributions -- "Contributions" and "payments in lieu of contributions" as money payments and taxes due state
The terms "contributions" and "payments in lieu of contributions" used in this title, whether singular or plural, designate the money payments to be made to ...

50.04.073 Contributions -- As including "payments in lieu of contributions" -- Scope
The term "contributions" as used in this title shall be deemed to include "payments in lieu of contributions" to the extent that such usage is ...

50.04.075 Dislocated worker
"Dislocated worker" means any individual who: (1) Has been terminated or received a notice of termination from employment; (2) Is eligible for or has exhausted ...

50.04.080 Employer
(1) "Employer" means any individual or type of organization, including any partnership, association, trust, estate, joint stock company, insurance company, limited liability company, or corporation, ...

50.04.090 Employing unit
(1) "Employing unit" means any individual or any type of organization, including any partnership, association, trust, estate, joint stock company, insurance company, or corporation, whether ...

50.04.100 Employment
"Employment", subject only to the other provisions of this title, means personal service, of whatever nature, unlimited by the relationship of master and servant as ...

50.04.110 Employment -- Situs of service
The term "employment" shall include an individual's entire service performed within or without or both within and without this state, if (1) The service is ...

50.04.115 Employment -- Out-of-state service, election
Services not covered under RCW 50.04.110 or 50.04.116 which are performed entirely without this state, with respect to no part of which contributions, interest, or ...

50.04.116 Employment -- Out-of-state service, when included -- "American employer" defined
The term "employment" shall include the service of an individual who is a citizen of the United States, performed outside the United States (except in ...

50.04.120 Employment -- Localized service
Service shall be deemed to be localized within a state, if (1) the service is performed entirely within the state; or (2) the service is ...

50.04.125 Employment -- Foreign degree-granting institutions -- Employee services localized 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 ...

50.04.140 Employment -- Exception tests
Services performed by an individual for remuneration shall be deemed to be employment subject to this title unless and until it is shown to the ...

50.04.145 Employment -- Exclusions
The term "employment" shall not include services which require registration under chapter 18.27 RCW or licensing under chapter 19.28 RCW rendered by an individual when: ...

50.04.148 Employment -- Services performed by musician or entertainer
(1) The term "employment" shall not include services performed by a musician or entertainer under a written contract with a purchaser of the services for ...

50.04.150 Employment -- Agricultural labor
Except as otherwise provided in RCW 50.04.155, the term "employment" shall not include service performed in agricultural labor by individuals who are enrolled as students ...

50.04.155 Service performed in agricultural labor for farm operator or crew leader
(1) Service performed in agricultural labor on and after January 1, 1978, for a farm operator or crew leader will be deemed services in employment ...

50.04.160 Employment -- Domestic service
Services performed in domestic service in a private home, local college club, or local chapter of a college fraternity or sorority shall not be considered ...

50.04.165 Employment -- Corporate officers -- Election of coverage
Services performed by a person appointed as an officer of a corporation under RCW 23B.08.400, other than those covered by chapter 50.44 RCW, shall not ...

50.04.170 Employment -- Maritime service
The term "employment" shall include an individual's entire service as an officer or member of a crew of an American vessel wherever performed and whether ...

50.04.180 Family employment
The term "employment" shall not include service performed by an individual in the employ of his or her spouse, nor shall it include service performed ...

50.04.205 Services performed by aliens
Except as provided in RCW 50.04.206, services performed by aliens legally or illegally admitted to the United States shall be considered services in employment subject ...

50.04.206 Employment -- Nonresident alien
The term "employment" shall not include service that is performed by a nonresident alien for the period he or she is temporarily present in the ...

50.04.210 Employment -- Foreign governmental service
The term "employment" shall not include service performed in the employ of any other state or its political subdivisions, or of the United States government, ...

50.04.220 Employment -- Service covered by federal act
The term "employment" shall not include service with respect to which unemployment compensation is payable under an unemployment compensation system established by an act of ...

50.04.223 Employment -- Massage practitioner
The term "employment" does not include services performed by a massage practitioner licensed under chapter 18.108 RCW in a massage business if the use of ...

50.04.225 Employment -- Barber and cosmetology services
The term "employment" does not include services performed in a barber shop or cosmetology shop by persons licensed under chapter 18.16 RCW if the person ...

50.04.230 Employment -- Services of insurance agent, broker, or solicitor, real estate broker or real estate salesman, and investment company agent or solicitor
The term "employment" shall not include service performed by an insurance agent, insurance broker, or insurance solicitor or a real estate broker or a real ...

50.04.232 Employment -- Travel services
The term "employment" shall not include service performed by an outside agent who sells or arranges for travel services that are provided to a travel ...

50.04.235 Employment -- Outside salesman paid by commission
The term "employment" shall not include services as an outside salesman of merchandise paid solely by way of commission; and such services must have been ...

50.04.240 Employment -- Newspaper delivery person
The term "employment" shall not include service as a newspaper delivery person selling or distributing newspapers on the street or from house to house.[2007 c ...

50.04.245 Employment -- Services performed for temporary services agency, employee leasing agency, or services referral agency
(1) Subject to the other provisions of this title, personal services performed for, or for the benefit of, a third party pursuant to a contract ...

50.04.248 Employment -- Third-party payer
(1) Subject to the other provisions of this title, personal services performed for, or for the benefit of, an employer who utilizes a third-party payer ...

50.04.255 Employment -- Appraisal practitioner services
The term "employment" does not include services performed by an appraisal practitioner certified or licensed under chapter 18.140 RCW in an appraisal business if the ...

50.04.265 Employment -- Indian tribes
The term "employment" includes services performed in the employ of an Indian tribe as provided in RCW 50.50.010.[2001 1st sp.s. c 11 § 2.]Notes: Conflict ...

50.04.270 Employment -- Casual labor
The term "employment" shall not include casual labor not in the course of the employer's trade or business (labor which does not promote or advance ...

50.04.275 Employment -- Small performing arts
The term "employment" shall not include services performed by a person who is participating in a performance sponsored by an employer whose North American industry ...

50.04.280 Employment -- "Pay period" determination
If the services performed during one-half or more of any pay period by an individual for an employing unit constitute employment, all of the services ...

50.04.290 Employment office
"Employment office" means a free public employment office, or branch thereof, operated by this or any other state as a part of a state controlled ...

50.04.293 Misconduct
With respect to claims that have an effective date before January 4, 2004, "misconduct" means an employee's act or failure to act in willful disregard ...

50.04.294 Misconduct -- Gross misconduct
With respect to claims that have an effective date on or after January 4, 2004: (1) "Misconduct" includes, but is not limited to, the following ...

50.04.295 Payments in lieu of contributions
"Payments in lieu of contributions" means money payments due to the state unemployment compensation fund as provided in RCW 50.44.060.[1971 c 3 § 2.]Notes: Construction ...

50.04.298 Professional employer organizations -- Coemployment -- Covered employee
For the purposes of this title: (1) "Professional employer organization" means a person or entity that enters into an agreement with one or more client ...

50.04.300 State
"State" includes, in addition to the states of the United States of America, the District of Columbia, the Virgin Islands, and the Commonwealth of Puerto ...

50.04.310 Unemployed individual -- Individual not "unemployed" -- Corporate officer
(1) An individual is "unemployed" in any week during which the individual performs no services and with respect to which no remuneration is payable to ...

50.04.320 Wages, remuneration
(1) For the purpose of payment of contributions, "wages" means the remuneration paid by one employer during any calendar year to an individual in its ...

50.04.323 Wages, remuneration -- Government or private retirement pension plan payments -- Effect upon eligibility -- Reduction in benefits
(1) The amount of benefits payable to an individual for any week which begins after October 3, 1980, and which begins in a period with ...

50.04.330 Wages, remuneration -- Retirement and disability payments excepted
Prior to January 1, 1951, the term "wages" shall not include the amount of any payment by an employing unit for or on behalf of ...

50.04.335 Wages, remuneration -- Stock transfers excepted
After December 31, 2003, for the purpose of the payment of contributions, the term "wages" does not include an employee's income attributable to the transfer ...

50.04.340 Wages, remuneration -- Death benefits excepted
Prior to January 1, 1951, the term "wages" shall not include the amount of any payment by an employing unit for or on behalf of ...

50.04.350 Wages, remuneration -- Excepted payments
The term "wages" shall not include the payment by an employing unit (without deduction from the remuneration of the individual in its employ) of the ...

50.04.355 Wages, remuneration -- Average annual wage -- Average weekly wage -- Average annual wage for contributions purposes
(1) For computations made before January 1, 2007, the employment security department shall compute, on or before the fifteenth day of June of each year, ...

50.04.360 Week
"Week" means any period of seven consecutive calendar days ending at midnight as the commissioner may by regulation prescribe.[1945 c 35 § 37; Rem. Supp. ...