RCW 49.12.010: Declaration.

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49.12.005 << 49.12.010 >> 49.12.020

PDFRCW 49.12.010

Declaration.

The welfare of the state of Washington demands that all employees be protected from conditions of labor which have a pernicious effect on their health. The state of Washington, therefore, exercising herein its police and sovereign power declares that inadequate wages and unsanitary conditions of labor exert such pernicious effect.

[ 1973 2nd ex.s. c 16 § 2; 1913 c 174 § 1; RRS § 7623.]