Payee: On the line that says "Pay to the order of," write the name of the person or organization you’re paying.You can also postdate the check, but that doesn't always work the way you think it will. In most cases, you’ll use today’s date, which helps you and the recipient keep accurate records. Current date: Write this near the top right-hand corner.Use this as an example or move through the steps below ( View larger). Mark Harmsworth is the director of the Small Business Center at the Washington Policy Center.A completed check. The state’s L&I rules are a clear overreach of state government and should be repealed immediately. The state should not be requiring businesses and organizations to determine employee’s medical status and make people wear a special badge to enforce government rules before being allowed to conduct business without restrictions. It is not the state’s responsibility to make medical decisions for its residents and then restrict the freedom to work and conduct commerce based on those decisions. Other diseases, some that are more contagious than COVID-19, do not require proof of vaccination before an employee can work, unrestricted. Small business owners will continue to voluntarily do everything they need to do to keep their guests and employees safe. The safety of Washington residents is of course important but both residents and business owners have been sensible in their approach to the COVID-19 crisis and can obviously self-regulate to keep their businesses and our communities safe. The final, and frankly, disturbing suggestion from L&I to mark an employee identification with their vaccination status, creates a discriminatory class system for employees. Business owners should determine how they want to operate their own workplace safely. Requiring private Washington businesses to determine an employee’s medical status based on government guidance is outrageous. This is not only a moral affront it is an unnecessary overreach by the state. “No state shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States nor shall any state deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws.”Ĭertainly, a requirement that a business determine the vaccination status for every employee, and subsequently require masks for some and not others, abridges the rights of Washington residents and the businesses owners themselves. The ability for employees to work unhindered is guaranteed under the 14th amendment of the U.S.
SEL, however, is opposed to the mandatory collection of private medical information and the subsequent sharing of that information with state government officials and articulately voices what thousands of other business owners are now thinking after learning about these new rules. SEL has already, voluntarily, been following CDC workplace guidelines and has required non-vaccinated employees to wear masks.
Schweitzer Engineering Laboratories (SEL), a company of scientists and engineers based in Pullman, has written to Governor Jay Inslee, asking him to repeal the L&I rules. Contract tracing was highly unpopular, failed to gain traction and state officials ultimately abandoned it. This would have a similar harmful effect as the failed contact tracing rule that was tried by the state in mid-2020.