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The City of Tacoma says it won't put a properly submitted initiative to a vote of the people, and that courts can't make them do it.

Roughly 2½ years after Washington’s pay transparency law took effect, lawmakers, state courts, employers and job seekers are still trying to make sense of it.

Coffee purveyors say they're contending with stumbling blocks and trying to avoid passing costs to weary customers.

Amazon and Microsoft remade the Seattle area. Now its economy is feeling the pain of the industry’s pullback.

It’s a victory for Katie Wilson, the leading candidate, and a sign that previously cautious organizations in the labor world ...

The Abia State Chapter of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has demanded that the Governor Otti-led government should, without any hesitation, review upward the current #70,000 minimum wage earned by ...

SEATTLE — Stalled contract talks between private security officers and their employers could create new safety risks throughout the public transit system in King County. Nearly 5,000 members with ...

PERRY, Ga. — Georgia is phasing out a nearly century-old practice that allows employers to pay workers with disabilities less than the federal minimum wage. A new state law that took effect in July ...

Seattle is celebrating a “bold, decades-long transformation of” its downtown shoreline — and the community is encouraged to turn out, officials said. Transforming the downtown waterfront started “with ...

The Faithful had questions, and I've got the answers. Each week throughout the season, fans will have the chance to submit their questions on Instagram, and I'll answer them here in this dedicated Q&A ...