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Report Link High Court Alters Eligibility for Unemployment Insurance in Washington State.
Littler Mendelson, P.C. - July 02, 2008
On June 19, 2008, the Washington Supreme Court relied on legislative history and the plain language of Washington's unemployment insurance law to hold in Spain v. Employment Security Department, No. 7987-8 (June 19, 2008), that the listing of specific reasons in RCW section 50.20.050(2)(b) for which an employee may voluntarily leave a position for "good cause" and still collect unemployment insurance benefits is not exclusive. As a result of court's decision in Spain, the door is now open for employees to generally argue that they are entitled to unemployment compensation because they left work voluntarily for "good cause," even if the reason they quit their job does not fall within one of the specific reasons enumerated in the statute.
 

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