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State employees will get to take vacation days right away
Go ahead, new state workers. Take a vacation this summer.
Gov. Jay Inslee says it’s OK.
A new state law he approved Thursday snaps an old rule that stopped workers from taking vacation time in their first six months on the job.
Now, as long as you’ve accrued time off, you can take it.
The sponsor of House Bill 1521, Rep. Laurie Dolan, D-Olympia, said the measure is just “one more way to try to have people want to stay employed by the state of Washington.”
Read more here: http://www.thenewstribune.com/news/politics-government/article148744844.html