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WA Rev Code § 49.48.150 (2021)
2021 Revised Code of Washington|Title 49 - Labor Regulations|Chapter 49.48 - Wages—Payment—Collection.|49.48.150 - Sales representatives—Definitions.

RCW 49.48.150 Sales representatives—Definitions.Unless the context clearly requires otherwise, the definitions in this section apply throughout RCW 49.48.160 through 49.48.190.(1) "Commission" means compensation paid a sales representative by a principal in an amount based on a percentage of the dollar amount of certain orders for or sales of the principal's product. Commission includes bonus payments under an incentive compensation plan or other agreement between a principal and sales representative.(2) "Principal" means a person, whether or not the person has a permanent or fixed place of business in this state, who:(a) Manufactures, produces, imports, or distributes a product for sale to customers who purchase the product for resale;(b) Uses a sales representative to solicit orders for the product; and(c) Compensates the sales representative in whole or in part by commission.(3) "Sales representative" means a person who solicits, on behalf of a principal, orders for the purchase at wholesale of the principal's product, but does not include a person who places orders for his or her own account for resale, or purchases for his or her own account for resale, or sells or takes orders for the direct sale of products to the ultimate consumer.[ 2020 c 84 § 1; 2010 c 8 § 12052; 1992 c 177 § 1.]NOTES:Severability—1992 c 177: "If any provision of this act or its application to any person or circumstance is held invalid, the remainder of the act or the application of the provision to other persons or circumstances is not affected." [ 1992 c 177 § 7.]
WA Rev Code § 49.48.160 (2021)
2021 Revised Code of Washington|Title 49 - Labor Regulations|Chapter 49.48 - Wages—Payment—Collection.|49.48.160 - Sales representatives—Contract—Agreement.

RCW 49.48.160 Sales representatives—Contract—Agreement.(1) A contract between a principal and a sales representative under which the sales representative is to solicit wholesale orders within this state must be in writing and must set forth the method by which the sales representative's commission is to be computed and paid. The principal shall provide the sales representative with a copy of the contract. A provision in the contract establishing venue for an action arising under the contract in a state other than this state, or establishing conditions for payment of a commission contrary to the provisions of this section, is void.(2) When no written contract has been entered into, any agreement between a sales representative and a principal is deemed to incorporate the provisions of RCW 49.48.150 through 49.48.190.(3)(a) During the course of the contract, a sales representative shall be paid the earned commission and all other moneys earned or payable in accordance with the agreed terms of the contract, but no later than thirty days after receipt of payment by the principal for products or goods sold on behalf of the principal by the sales representative.(b) Upon termination of a contract, whether or not the agreement is in writing, all earned commissions due to the sales representative shall be paid within thirty days after receipt of payment by the principal for products or goods sold on behalf of the principal by the sales representative, including earned commissions not due when the contract is terminated.(c) Where a sales representative's efforts prior to termination of a contract results in a sale, regardless of when the sale occurs, the termination may not affect whether a commission is considered earned.(4) Failure to pay an earned commission is a wage payment violation under RCW 49.52.050.[ 2020 c 84 § 2; 1992 c 177 § 2.]NOTES:Severability—1992 c 177: See note following RCW 49.48.150.
WA Rev Code § 49.48.170 (2021)
2021 Revised Code of Washington|Title 49 - Labor Regulations|Chapter 49.48 - Wages—Payment—Collection.|49.48.170 - Sales representatives—Payment.

RCW 49.48.170 Sales representatives—Payment.A principal shall pay wages and commissions at the usual place of payment unless the sales representative requests that the wages and commissions be sent through registered mail. If, in accordance with a request by the sales representative, the sales representative's wages and commissions are sent through the mail, the wages and commissions are deemed to have been paid as of the date of their registered postmark.[ 1992 c 177 § 3.]NOTES:Severability—1992 c 177: See note following RCW 49.48.150.
WA Rev Code § 49.48.180 (2021)
2021 Revised Code of Washington|Title 49 - Labor Regulations|Chapter 49.48 - Wages—Payment—Collection.|49.48.180 - Sales representatives—Principal considered doing business in this state.

RCW 49.48.180 Sales representatives—Principal considered doing business in this state.A principal who is not a resident of this state and who enters into a contract subject to RCW 49.48.150 through 49.48.190 is considered to be doing business in this state for purposes of the exercise of personal jurisdiction over the principal.[ 1992 c 177 § 4.]NOTES:Severability—1992 c 177: See note following RCW 49.48.150.
WA Rev Code § 49.48.190 (2021)
2021 Revised Code of Washington|Title 49 - Labor Regulations|Chapter 49.48 - Wages—Payment—Collection.|49.48.190 - Sales representatives—Rights and remedies not exclusive—Waiver void.

RCW 49.48.190 Sales representatives—Rights and remedies not exclusive—Waiver void.(1) RCW 49.48.150 through 49.48.190 supplement but do not supplant any other rights and remedies enjoyed by sales representatives.(2) A provision of RCW 49.48.150 through 49.48.190 may not be waived, whether by express waiver or by attempt to make a contract or agreement subject to the laws of another state. A waiver of a provision of RCW 49.48.150 through 49.48.190 is void.[ 1992 c 177 § 5.]NOTES:Severability—1992 c 177: See note following RCW 49.48.150.
WA Rev Code § 49.48.200 (2021)
2021 Revised Code of Washington|Title 49 - Labor Regulations|Chapter 49.48 - Wages—Payment—Collection.|49.48.200 - Overpayment of wages—Government employees.

RCW 49.48.200 Overpayment of wages—Government employees.(1) Debts due the state or a county or city for the overpayment of wages to their respective employees may be recovered by the employer by deductions from subsequent wage payments as provided in RCW 49.48.210, or by civil action. If the overpayment is recovered by deduction from the employee's subsequent wages, each deduction shall not exceed: (a) Five percent of the employee's disposable earnings in a pay period other than the final pay period; or (b) the amount still outstanding from the employee's disposable earnings in the final pay period. The deductions from wages shall continue until the overpayment is fully recouped.(2) Nothing in this section or RCW 49.48.210 or 49.48.220 prevents: (a) An employee from making payments in excess of the amount specified in subsection (1)(a) of this section to an employer; or (b) an employer and employee from agreeing to a different overpayment amount than that specified in the notice in RCW 49.48.210(1) or to a method other than a deduction from wages for repayment of the overpayment amount.[ 2004 c 7 § 1; 2003 c 77 § 1.]NOTES:Severability—2004 c 7: "If any provision of this act or its application to any person or circumstance is held invalid, the remainder of the act or the application of the provision to other persons or circumstances is not affected." [ 2004 c 7 § 3.]
WA Rev Code § 49.48.220 (2021)
2021 Revised Code of Washington|Title 49 - Labor Regulations|Chapter 49.48 - Wages—Payment—Collection.|49.48.220 - Rules.

RCW 49.48.220 Rules.The office of financial management shall adopt the rules necessary to implement chapter 77, Laws of 2003.[ 2003 c 77 § 3.]
WA Rev Code § 49.48.900 (2021)
2021 Revised Code of Washington|Title 49 - Labor Regulations|Chapter 49.48 - Wages—Payment—Collection.|49.48.900 - Construction—Chapter applicable to state registered domestic partnerships—2009 c 521.

RCW 49.48.900 Construction—Chapter applicable to state registered domestic partnerships—2009 c 521.For the purposes of this chapter, the terms spouse, marriage, marital, husband, wife, widow, widower, next of kin, and family shall be interpreted as applying equally to state registered domestic partnerships or individuals in state registered domestic partnerships as well as to marital relationships and married persons, and references to dissolution of marriage shall apply equally to state registered domestic partnerships that have been terminated, dissolved, or invalidated, to the extent that such interpretation does not conflict with federal law. Where necessary to implement chapter 521, Laws of 2009, gender-specific terms such as husband and wife used in any statute, rule, or other law shall be construed to be gender neutral, and applicable to individuals in state registered domestic partnerships.[ 2009 c 521 § 131.]
WA Rev Code § 49.52.010 (2021)
2021 Revised Code of Washington|Title 49 - Labor Regulations|Chapter 49.52 - Wages—Deductions—Contributions—Rebates.|49.52.010 - Employees' benefit deductions and employer contributions are trust funds—Enforcement.

RCW 49.52.010 Employees' benefit deductions and employer contributions are trust funds—Enforcement.All moneys collected by any employer from his or her or its employees and all money to be paid by any employer as his or her contribution for furnishing, either directly, or through contract, or arrangement with a hospital association, corporation, firm, or individual, of medicine, medical or surgical treatment, nursing, hospital service, ambulance service, dental service, burial service, or any or all of the above enumerated services, or any other necessary service, contingent upon sickness, accident, or death, are hereby declared to be a trust fund for the purposes for which the same are collected. The trustees (or their administrator, representative, or agent under direction of the trustees) of such fund are authorized to take such action as is deemed necessary to ensure that the employer contributions are made including, but not limited to filing actions at law, and filing liens against moneys due to the employer from the performance of labor or furnishing of materials to which the employees contributed their services. Such trust fund is subject to the provisions of *chapter 48.52 RCW.[ 2010 c 8 § 12053; 1975 c 34 § 1; 1927 c 307 § 1; RRS § 7614-1.]NOTES:*Reviser's note: Chapter 48.52 RCW was repealed by 1979 ex.s. c 34 § 1.
WA Rev Code § 49.52.020 (2021)
2021 Revised Code of Washington|Title 49 - Labor Regulations|Chapter 49.52 - Wages—Deductions—Contributions—Rebates.|49.52.020 - Lien of party rendering service.

RCW 49.52.020 Lien of party rendering service.In case any employer collecting moneys from his or her employees or making contributions to any type of benefit plan for any or all of the purposes specified in RCW 49.52.010, shall enter into a contract or arrangement with any hospital association, corporation, firm, or individual, to furnish any such service to its employees, the association, corporation, firm, or individual contracting to furnish such services, shall have a lien upon such trust fund prior to all other liens except taxes. The lien hereby created shall attach from the date of the arrangement or contract to furnish such services and may be foreclosed in the manner provided by law for the foreclosure of other liens on personal property.[ 2010 c 8 § 12054; 1975 c 34 § 2; 1927 c 307 § 2; RRS § 7614-2.]
WA Rev Code § 49.52.030 (2021)
2021 Revised Code of Washington|Title 49 - Labor Regulations|Chapter 49.52 - Wages—Deductions—Contributions—Rebates.|49.52.030 - Deductions in extrahazardous employment—Medical aid fund deductions excluded.

RCW 49.52.030 Deductions in extrahazardous employment—Medical aid fund deductions excluded.All moneys realized by any employer from the employer's employees either by collection or by deduction from the wages or pay of employees intended or to be used for the furnishing to workers engaged in extrahazardous work, their families or dependents, of medical, surgical or hospital care and treatment, or for nursing, ambulance service, burial or any or all of the above enumerated services, or any service incidental to or furnished or rendered because of sickness, disease, accident or death, and all moneys owing by any employer therefor, shall be and remain a fund for the purposes for which such moneys are intended to be used, and shall not constitute or become any part of the assets of the employer making such collections or deductions: PROVIDED, HOWEVER, That RCW 49.52.030 and 49.52.040 shall not apply to moneys collected or deducted as aforesaid for, or owing by employers to the state medical aid fund. Such moneys shall be paid over promptly to the physician or surgeon or hospital association or other parties to which such moneys are due and for the purposes for which such collections or deductions were made.[ 1989 c 12 § 16; 1929 c 136 § 1; RRS § 7713-1.]
WA Rev Code § 49.52.040 (2021)
2021 Revised Code of Washington|Title 49 - Labor Regulations|Chapter 49.52 - Wages—Deductions—Contributions—Rebates.|49.52.040 - Actions to recover for service—Lien—Priority.

RCW 49.52.040 Actions to recover for service—Lien—Priority.If any such employer shall default in any such payment to any physician, surgeon, hospital, hospital association or any other parties to whom any such payment is due, the sum so due may be collected by an action at law in the name of the physician, surgeon, hospital, hospital association or any other party to whom such payment is owing, or their assigns and against such defaulting employer, and in addition to such action, such claims shall have the same priority and lien rights as granted to the state for claims due the accident and medical aid funds by section 7682 of Remington's Compiled Statutes of Washington, 1922 [RCW 51.16.150 through 51.16.170], and acts amendatory thereto, which priority and lien rights shall be enforced in the same manner and under the same conditions as provided in said section 7682 [RCW 51.16.150 through 51.16.170]: PROVIDED, HOWEVER, That the said claims for physicians, surgeons, hospitals and hospital associations and others shall be secondary and inferior to any claims of the state and to any claims for labor. Such right of action shall be in addition to any other right of action or remedy.[ 1929 c 136 § 2; RRS § 7713-2.]
WA Rev Code § 49.52.050 (2021)
2021 Revised Code of Washington|Title 49 - Labor Regulations|Chapter 49.52 - Wages—Deductions—Contributions—Rebates.|49.52.050 - Rebates of wages—False records—Penalty.

RCW 49.52.050 Rebates of wages—False records—Penalty.Any employer or officer, vice principal or agent of any employer, whether said employer be in private business or an elected public official, who(1) Shall collect or receive from any employee a rebate of any part of wages theretofore paid by such employer to such employee; or(2) Wilfully and with intent to deprive the employee of any part of his or her wages, shall pay any employee a lower wage than the wage such employer is obligated to pay such employee by any statute, ordinance, or contract; or(3) Shall wilfully make or cause another to make any false entry in any employer's books or records purporting to show the payment of more wages to an employee than such employee received; or(4) Being an employer or a person charged with the duty of keeping any employer's books or records shall wilfully fail or cause another to fail to show openly and clearly in due course in such employer's books and records any rebate of or deduction from any employee's wages; or(5) Shall wilfully receive or accept from any employee any false receipt for wages;Shall be guilty of a misdemeanor.[ 2010 c 8 § 12055; 1941 c 72 § 1; 1939 c 195 § 1; Rem. Supp. 1941 § 7612-21.]NOTES:Severability—1939 c 195: "If any section, subsection, sentence or clause of this act shall be adjudged unconstitutional, such adjudication shall not affect the validity of the act as a whole or of any section, subsection, sentence or clause thereof not adjudged unconstitutional." [ 1939 c 195 § 5; RRS § 7612-25.] This applies to RCW 49.52.050 through 49.52.080.
WA Rev Code § 49.52.060 (2021)
2021 Revised Code of Washington|Title 49 - Labor Regulations|Chapter 49.52 - Wages—Deductions—Contributions—Rebates.|49.52.060 - Authorized withholding.

RCW 49.52.060 Authorized withholding.The provisions of RCW 49.52.050 shall not make it unlawful for an employer to withhold or divert any portion of an employee's wages when required or empowered so to do by state or federal law or when a deduction has been expressly authorized in writing in advance by the employee for a lawful purpose accruing to the benefit of such employee nor shall the provisions of RCW 49.52.050 make it unlawful for an employer to withhold deductions for medical, surgical, or hospital care or service, pursuant to any rule or regulation: PROVIDED, That the employer derives no financial benefit from such deduction and the same is openly, clearly and in due course recorded in the employer's books.[ 1939 c 195 § 2; RRS § 7612-22.]NOTES:Penalty for coercion as to purchase of goods, meals, etc.: RCW 49.48.020.Public employment, payroll deductions: RCW 41.04.020, 41.04.030, 41.04.035, and 41.04.036.Wages to be paid in lawful money or negotiable order, penalty: RCW 49.48.010.
WA Rev Code § 49.52.070 (2021)
2021 Revised Code of Washington|Title 49 - Labor Regulations|Chapter 49.52 - Wages—Deductions—Contributions—Rebates.|49.52.070 - Civil liability for double damages.

RCW 49.52.070 Civil liability for double damages.Any employer and any officer, vice principal or agent of any employer who shall violate any of the provisions of RCW 49.52.050 (1) and (2) shall be liable in a civil action by the aggrieved employee or his or her assignee to judgment for twice the amount of the wages unlawfully rebated or withheld by way of exemplary damages, together with costs of suit and a reasonable sum for attorney's fees: PROVIDED, HOWEVER, That the benefits of this section shall not be available to any employee who has knowingly submitted to such violations.[ 2010 c 8 § 12056; 1939 c 195 § 3; RRS § 7612-23.]
WA Rev Code § 49.52.080 (2021)
2021 Revised Code of Washington|Title 49 - Labor Regulations|Chapter 49.52 - Wages—Deductions—Contributions—Rebates.|49.52.080 - Presumption as to intent.

RCW 49.52.080 Presumption as to intent.The violations by an employer or any officer, vice principal, or agent of any employer of any of the provisions of subdivisions (3), (4), and (5) of RCW 49.52.050 shall raise a presumption that any deduction from or underpayment of any employee's wages connected with such violation was wilful.[ 1939 c 195 § 4; RRS § 7612-24.]
WA Rev Code § 49.52.090 (2021)
2021 Revised Code of Washington|Title 49 - Labor Regulations|Chapter 49.52 - Wages—Deductions—Contributions—Rebates.|49.52.090 - Rebates of wages on public works—Penalty.

RCW 49.52.090 Rebates of wages on public works—Penalty.Every person, whether as a representative of an awarding or public body or officer, or as a contractor or subcontractor doing public work, or agent or officer thereof, who takes or receives, or conspires with another to take or receive, for his or her own use or the use of any other person acting with him or her any part or portion of the wages paid to any laborer, worker, or mechanic, including a piece worker and working subcontractor, in connection with services rendered upon any public work within this state, whether such work is done directly for the state, or public body or officer thereof, or county, city and county, city, town, township, district or other political subdivision of the said state or for any contractor or subcontractor engaged in such public work for such an awarding or public body or officer, shall be guilty of a gross misdemeanor.[ 2010 c 8 § 12057; 1935 c 29 § 1; RRS § 10320-1.]NOTES:Prevailing wages must be paid on public works: RCW 39.12.020.
WA Rev Code § 49.56.010 (2021)
2021 Revised Code of Washington|Title 49 - Labor Regulations|Chapter 49.56 - Wages—Priorities—Preferences.|49.56.010 - Priority of wages in insolvency.

RCW 49.56.010 Priority of wages in insolvency.In all assignments of property made by any person to trustees or assignees on account of the inability of the person at the time of the assignment to pay his or her debts, or in proceedings in insolvency, the wages of the miners, mechanics, salespersons, servants, clerks, or laborers employed by such persons to the amount of one hundred dollars, each, and for services rendered within sixty days previously, are preferred claims, and must be paid by such trustees or assignees before any other creditor or creditors of the assignor.[ 2010 c 8 § 12058; Code 1881 § 1972; 1877 p 223 § 34; RRS § 1204.]NOTES:Construction—1877 p 224: "In construing the provisions of this act, words used in the masculine gender include the feminine and neuter, the singular number includes the plural and the plural the singular; the word person includes a corporation as well as a natural person, and the word writing includes printing." [ 1877 p 224 § 37.]Construction—1877 p 224: "This act establishes the law of this territory respecting the subject to which it relates and its provisions and all proceedings under it are to be liberally construed with a view to effect its object." [ 1877 p 224 § 39.]Repeal and saving—1877 p 224: "All acts relating to any kind or class of liens provided for in this act are hereby repealed, but no action or proceeding commenced before this act takes effect, and no right accrued is affected by such repeal but the proceedings therein must conform to the requirements of this act as far as applicable." [ 1877 p 224 § 38.]Effective date—1877 p 224: "This act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage and the approval thereof by the governor." (Approved, November 8th, 1877.) [ 1877 p 224 § 40.]
WA Rev Code § 49.56.020 (2021)
2021 Revised Code of Washington|Title 49 - Labor Regulations|Chapter 49.56 - Wages—Priorities—Preferences.|49.56.020 - Preference on death of employer.

RCW 49.56.020 Preference on death of employer.In case of the death of any employer, the wages of each miner, mechanic, salesperson, clerk, servant, and laborer for services rendered within sixty days next preceding the death of the employer, not exceeding one hundred dollars, rank in priority next after the funeral expenses, expenses of the last sickness, the charges and expenses of administering upon the estate and the allowance to the widow and infant children, and must be paid before other claims against the estate of the deceased person.[ 2010 c 8 § 12059; Code 1881 § 1973; 1877 p 223 § 35; RRS § 1205.]