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• To Sign or Not to Sign (That Severance Agreement)? That is the Question Although Washington employers are generally not required to provide severance pay to a terminated employee (except if promised in an employee handbook or employment contract), many employers still offer severance as a gesture of good will. There are any several factors, however, that should be considered when deciding whether to sign a severance agreement. An employee ... Read full article
• Don’t Let Your Former Employer “Blacklist” You The Washington Law Against Discrimination makes it unlawful for an employer to “discharge, expel, or otherwise discriminate” against a job applicant or employee on the basis of that person’s protected characteristic such as race, age, or sex. Likewise, the WLAD also makes it unlawful for an employer to do the same because he or she ... Read full article
• Recycle Your Old Cell Phones to Save the Gorillas! It’s time for spring cleaning! We’re excited to officially be partnering with ECO-CELL, a company which reimburses organizations for collecting useful handheld electronics, batteries, and accessories and keeps them out of landfills. This helps reduce the demand for Coltan, an ore used in phones and other electronic devices. Coltan is mined primarily in the Republic ... Read full article
• Favorable Tax Treatment Made Permanent (Qualified Small Business Stock) Current IRS rules that provide tax breaks on gains of sales of qualified small business stock (QSBS) have been made permanent. More specifically, a taxpayer may be able to exclude from personal income tax up to 100% of any gain realized on the sale or exchange of QSBS held for more than five years (subject ... Read full article
• The Disappearing Maintenance Benefit In a divorce, there are generally three types of payments that can be made between the divorcing parties. The first is considered an equalizing property transfer payment. For example, if, after the allocation of all real property, bank accounts, retirement accounts, and investment accounts, there is a disparate value between the parties, one party usually ... Read full article

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