RCW 74.20A.230
Employee debtor rights protected—Remedies.
No employer shall discharge or discipline an employee or refuse to hire a person for reason that an assignment of earnings has been presented in settlement of a support debt or that a support lien or order to withhold and deliver has been served against said employee's earnings. If an employer discharges or disciplines an employee or refuses to hire a person in violation of this section, the employee or person shall have a cause of action against the employer. The employer shall be liable for double the amount of lost wages and any other damages suffered as a result of the violation and for costs and reasonable attorney fees, and shall be subject to a civil penalty of not more than two thousand five hundred dollars for each violation. The employer may also be ordered to hire, rehire, or reinstate the aggrieved individual.
[ 1985 c 276 § 11; 1973 1st ex.s. c 183 § 21; 1971 ex.s. c 164 § 23.]
Structure Revised Code of Washington
Chapter 74.20A - Support of Dependent Children—Alternative Method—1971 Act.
74.20A.010 - Purpose—Remedies additional.
74.20A.030 - Department subrogated to rights for support—Enforcement actions—Certain parents exempt.
74.20A.035 - Augmentation of paternity establishment services.
74.20A.040 - Notice of support debt—Service or mailing—Contents—Action on, when.
74.20A.057 - Jurisdiction over responsible parent.
74.20A.060 - Assertion of lien—Effect.
74.20A.095 - Support enforcement services—Action against earnings within state—Notice.
74.20A.100 - Civil liability upon failure to comply with order or lien—Collection.
74.20A.110 - Release of excess to debtor.
74.20A.140 - Action for foreclosure of support lien—Satisfaction.
74.20A.150 - Satisfaction of lien after foreclosure proceedings instituted—Redemption.
74.20A.160 - Secretary may set debt payment schedule, release funds in certain hardship cases.
74.20A.170 - Secretary may release lien or order or return seized property—Effect.
74.20A.180 - Secretary may make demand, file and serve liens, when payments appear in jeopardy.
74.20A.200 - Judicial relief after administrative remedies exhausted.
74.20A.230 - Employee debtor rights protected—Remedies.
74.20A.240 - Assignment of earnings to be honored—Effect—Income withholding forms—Processing fee.
74.20A.250 - Secretary empowered to act as attorney, endorse drafts.
74.20A.275 - Support payments in possession of third parties—Collection.
74.20A.280 - Department to respect privacy of recipients.
74.20A.290 - Applicant for adjudicative proceeding must advise department of current address.
74.20A.300 - Medical support—Health care coverage required.
74.20A.310 - Federal and state cooperation—Rules—Construction.
74.20A.322 - License suspension—Adjudicative proceeding.
74.20A.324 - License suspension—Certification of noncompliance.
74.20A.326 - License suspension—Payment schedule arrangements.
74.20A.328 - License suspension—Rules.
74.20A.350 - Noncompliance—Notice—Fines—License suspension—Hearings—Rules.
74.20A.360 - Records access—Confidentiality—Nonliability—Penalty for noncompliance.
74.20A.370 - Financial institution data matches.
74.20A.900 - Severability—Alternative when method of notification held invalid.
74.20A.920 - Construction—Chapter applicable to state registered domestic partnerships—2009 c 521.