Official Text and Analysis.

Removes the requirement that employers must provide to each employee the wage scale or salary range for the employee's job title annually and upon request after hire. Specifies instead that employers must provide such information upon receipt of a new job title or promotion. Specifies that an employer satisfies the requirement to provide the wage scale or salary range if such information is available on a third party web site containing employer-provided salary information.

Amends and adds provisions to RCW 49.58, rather than RCW 49.12; modifies the legislative findings; removes the definitions of employee and employer, making those definitions in RCW 49.58 applicable; and makes RCW 49.58 known as the Washington equal pay and opportunities act. (2) Requires an employer to provide a minimum wage or salary to applicants initially offered a position, instead of providing a wage scale or salary range for the job title to all applicants. (3) Requires the employer to provide the wage scale or salary range for an employee's new position upon request of an employee offered an internal transfer to a new position or promotion, rather than the wage scale and salary range for the employee's job title upon hire and upon receipt of new title or promotion. (4) Requires employers with no wage scale or salary range to disclose the minimum wage or salary expectation. (5) Removes the provision that an employer satisfies the requirements to provide information by making it available on a website. (6) Limits the requirements to provide wage and salary information to employers with fifteen or more employees.