Meal or No Meal
The length of a compliant meal break.
What is 30 minutes?
The minimum length of a compliant rest break.
What is 10 minutes?
The current minimum wage for the state of Washinton.
What is $17.13?
This is the only city in Washington in which predictive scheduling applies.
What is Seattle?
The state is named after this person.
Who is President George Washington?
The maximum number of consecutive hours an employee can work before taking a compliant meal break.
What is 5.0?
The interval of time for each rest break owed (not including the first one).
What is 4 hours?
What is $21.30?
This is the minimum number of days before an employee's shift in which an employer can freely change an employees schedule.
What is 14?
The year the Washington Department of Labor was created.
What is 1921?
This is the time period in which an employee should take their first lunch break.
What is 2.0 to 5.0 hours?
The maximum number of hours an employee's shift can last without a required rest break.
What is 3.0?
This is the national ranking of Washington in terms of highest state minimum wage.
What is 1?
This is the minimum number of hours of rest that employers must schedule between shifts.
What is 10?
This is the minimum hours of sick hours employees must receive for each 40 hours worked.
What is 1 hour?
This is the number of meal‑break premium hours owed when an employee takes a 28‑minute meal break 4 hours and 36 minutes into their shift, and a second 30‑minute meal break beginning 4 hours and 9 minutes after returning from the first meal break.
What is one-half?
This is the penalty for a non-compliant rest break.
What is ten minutes of work time pay?
The number of cities with a different minimum wage than the state.
What is 7?
This is the penalty for violating the 14 day window in which employers can make scheduling changes, assuming the employer does not subtract hours from the schedule.
What is 1 hour of penalty pay?
If an employee earns less than this hourly wage, an employer is forbidden from restricting an employee for working an additional job (non-compete).
What is $34.26?
This is the Washington Court of Appeals case that set a ruling on how damages are calculated for meal non-compliance.
What is Androckitis v Virginia Mason Medical Center?
The main difference between penalty pay for Washington rest and meal breaks (hint: not the duration of time).
What is rest penalties count as hours worked.
This is the year that Washington established their first official state minimum wage, different to that of the federal government.
What is 1959?
This is the population of employees that predictive scheduling laws apply to. (Need 2 of 3)
What is coffee, fast food, and retail workers?
This children's science show was filmed in Seattle, WA.
Bill Nye the Science Guy