National Employers Can (Mostly) Require Vaccines For Workers Returning To The Office Guidance from the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission says employers can legally require workers to get a COVID-19 vaccine before returning to the office. But workers can claim exceptions. Jaclyn Diaz
Politics Pierce County executive vetoes hazard pay for grocery workers Grocery workers in unincorporated Pierce County may not see $4-an-hour hazard pay bonus despite the County Council's approval. Pierce County Executive Bruce Dammeier vetoed the proposal this week Katie Campbell
Health A Sign Of Hope After 'Winter Hibernation': Employers Add 379,000 Jobs Meanwhile, the unemployment rate dipped to 6.2% last month as the winter wave of coronavirus infections eased. Scott Horsley
Health Fed Chair Jerome Powell Warns Of Long Road Ahead To Recover Millions Of Lost Jobs Powell warned it will take time to put millions of jobless Americans back to work, while also downplaying inflation threats. Scott Horsley
Business Millions Are Out Of A Job. Yet Some Employers Wonder: Why Can't I Find Workers? Some businesses are struggling to find workers even as millions are unemployed, as the pandemic has made this a recession like no other. Kat Lonsdorf
Business Seattle Now: The uncertain future of Boeing A recent congressional investigation into two fatal 737 Max plane crashes blamed “cost cutting” and a “culture of concealment” at Boeing. Seattle’s aviation giant faces a tough journey to restore trust and rebuild its future. Patricia Murphy Andy Hurst Sophie Reid
Business Amazon job growth to shift beyond Seattle Amazon says 7,000 of the 8,400 corporate and tech jobs it has available in the Puget Sound region are in the city of Seattle. But that Carolyn Adolph
Business Job Gains Slowed Again In August As Employers Added 1.4 Million Jobs Fewer jobs were added to the economy last month even as the unemployment rate fell to 8.4%. Job growth has slowed since June in a sign of what could be a long and painful recovery from the recession. Scott Horsley
Government Boeing layoffs hit amid progress on unemployment backlog ‘We don't know how many workers are next.’ Carolyn Adolph Paige Browning
Health Hiring Surged In June. Employers Added 4.8 Million Jobs Before New Spike In Infections U.S. employers added 4.8 million jobs last month as the unemployment rate fell to 11.1%. There are indications that the job growth has slowed recently amid a surge of new coronavirus infections. Scott Horsley
