Wash. Admin. Code § 296-17A-4103
Applies to:
Businesses engaged in publishing daily or periodic newspapers.
Work activities include, but are not limited to:
* Printing which usually consists of one of three processes: Offset lithography, letterpress, or flexography;
* Cutting;
* Folding;
* Stacking either manually or by computer-operated machinery;
* Distribution using door-to-door carriers or independent route delivery drivers;
* General maintenance activities of the newspaper.
Occupations include, but are not limited to:
* Bindery workers;
* Drivers;
* Freight handlers;
* Machine feeders;
* Maintenance workers;
* Press operators;
* Production helpers.
Exclusions:
* Photo composition or prepress work such as photographic or computerized typesetting, layout, paste up, editing, proofreading, camera work, and automated platemaking is classified in 4904;
* Outside reporters, photographers, sales personnel, advertising staff, and circulation solicitors are classified in 6303;
* Businesses engaged in printing operations for newspapers published by other firms are classified in 4101.
Special note: Employees of an employer subject to this classification who have both photographic composition/prepress work duties and duties which are subject to this classification (4103) are classified in 4103 without a division of work hours.
Newspapers without any printing operations are governed by the general reporting rule covering businesses described by a standard exception classification.
Wash. Admin. Code § 296-17A-4103
07-01-014, recodified as § 296-17A-4103, filed 12/8/06, effective 12/8/06. Statutory Authority: RCW 51.16.035, 51.16.100. 06-12-075, § 296-17-622, filed 6/6/06, effective 7/7/06. Statutory Authority: RCW 51.16.035. 98-18-042, § 296-17-622, filed 8/28/98, effective 10/1/98; 96-12-039, § 296-17-622, filed 5/31/96, effective 7/1/96; 87-12-032 (Order 87-12), § 296-17-622, filed 5/29/87, effective 7/1/87; 85-24-032 (Order 85-33), § 296-17-622, filed 11/27/85, effective 1/1/86; 85-06-026 (Order 85-7), § 296-17-622, filed 2/28/85, effective 4/1/85; 83-24-017 (Order 83-36), § 296-17-622, filed 11/30/83, effective 1/1/84; Order 75-38, § 296-17-622, filed 11/24/75, effective 1/1/76; Order 73-22, § 296-17-622, filed 11/9/73, effective 1/1/74.