MRSC recently held an employment law webinar entitled “Employment Law Essentials for Every Chapter of Employment,” which covered the variety of issues that arise during all stages of employment, from recruiting and hiring, to employment, promotion, recognition and discipline, and ending with separation from employment. While that webinar has come and gone, MRSC will be providing an updated version of the Employment Law Essentials webinar each year.
Webinar attendees submitted numerous questions that we deemed would be of interest to a broader group of individuals. Below are a handful of the questions posed under each 'chapter' of the webinar, along with MRSC’s answers.
The first chapter of the webinar covered legal and practical considerations when recruiting and hiring, including authority to hire, requirements for advertising and recruiting for a position, prohibited interview questions, pre-employment checks and the Fair Chance Act, and hiring incentives. For more information on these matters, visit MRSC’s Hiring Procedures webpage.
The questions received during the webinar focused on contacting a candidate’s current employer and the requirements for posting a job.
RCW 49.58.110(1)(a) requires an employer with 15 or more employees to include the following in their job postings:
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