Employer Newsletter - January | Issue 57

2024 unemployment, Paid Leave and WA Cares reports due by Jan. 31, 2025

Be sure to file your last quarterly report for 2024.

By Jan. 31:
File all your quarterly reports for the year. Remember to use your 2024 tax rate when filing this report. If you work with a third party to file your reports, remind them to use the 2024 rate.

For unemployment taxes
Pay your current and past-due taxes, penalties and interest in full. If you cannot pay your balance owed, ask us about a deferred payment contract. Email our Collections unit at ESCtax@esd.wa.gov. 

Read more about unemployment quarterly reports on the Employment Security Department website.

For Paid Leave and WA Cares quarterly reports
Pay your current and past-due premiums in full. If you had no payroll for any quarter, be sure to file a “No payroll” report.

Read about how to file reports and pay premiums on the Paid Leave website.

Unemployment insurance: two mailings coming

 
This January, you will get two important mailings about unemployment insurance. We will send your:

  • Quarterly statement of benefit changes.
     

  • Monthly billing statement.

If you need to take any action, follow the instructions in these mailings. Information will include any due dates and how to get help if you need it.

Read more about unemployment taxes on the Employment Security Department website.

Paid Leave: 2025 premiums

 
Starting Jan. 1, 2025:

  • The premium rate increased to 0.92%.
     

  • Employers pay 28.48% of the total premium and employees pay 71.52%.
     

  • Businesses classified by the Employment Security Department as having fewer than 50 employees for the 2025 calendar year are not required to pay the employer portion of the premium. However, you must still collect the employee premium or pay employees’ premiums on their behalf.

Learn more on our website
Updated resources are available on the Paid Leave website for you and your employees, including:

We want to recognize your efforts to hire veterans

 

When you hire veterans and military family members for your business, you win in two ways:

  • You gain the exceptional skills that veterans offer.
     

  • You can earn recognition from the state’s YesVets program.

Over 2,000 employers statewide are enrolled in YesVets. And those employers have hired more than 7,700 veterans.

A recent news release from the Washington State Department of Veterans Affairs celebrates the program’s success so far. Participating in YesVets is a great way to honor the service of veterans and military family members.

Read more on the Employment Security Department website about:

Join us for a webinar to learn what your workers should know about WA Cares

 
The webinar is called “WA Cares Basics: what your workers need to know.” Tune in from 11 a.m. to noon on Jan. 15.

It will cover:

  • What long-term care includes.
     

  • How caregiving responsibilities impact families and the workplace; and how the WA Cares Fund can help.
     

  • Who contributes to the fund and how exemptions work.
     

  • How workers will meet contribution requirements, including a pathway for near-retirees.
     

  • What benefits will be available, including portable benefits for people who leave the state.
     

  • Audience Q&A.

Live captioning and ASL interpretation will be available.

Register today on Zoom.

CHA Washington