Washington’s jobless claims fall, but state’s unemployed may soon lose $600 benefit
The $600 weekly federal pandemic benefit in place March will expire later this month unless Congress acts.
Sur La Table files for Chapter 11 bankruptcy and will close nearly half its stores
The company did not indicate which locations would be closed or how many layoffs would result.
Nordstrom makes sharp staff cuts as it grapples with pandemic
Nordstrom is laying off thousands of workers, including a large number from its corporate operations in Seattle, according to a former employee and a trade...
Washington state may need federal loans to cover unemployment claims by year’s end
The projected deficit reflects both the unprecedented job losses from the pandemic coupled with a new forecast for a slower economic recovery and lingering unemployment...
CHOP organizers try to move protest out of park, focus on precinct VIEW
Some organizers suggested the Cal Anderson Park encampment was becoming hard to manage and was hurting efforts to keep political pressure on the city for...
Coronavirus job losses fall hardest in Washington state on people who already were hurting
Prior recessions killed jobs across many industries and demographic groups, but layoffs in the COVID-19 era have been concentrated among workers who were often behind...
Sur La Table to lay off a fifth of its corporate staff and possibly close five stores
Sur La Table, the Seattle-based company that helped make cooking chic before its own fortunes soured, will lay off dozens of corporate employees and may...
Microsoft closing nearly all of its retail stores
At least one analyst says the Microsoft store closures are a belated acknowledgment that the Redmond-based software giant never developed the brick-and-mortar success of rival...