Wash. Rev. Code § 50.20.060
Disqualification from benefits due to misconduct
Washington · Revised Code of Washington Chapter 50.20 — Benefits and Claims · Status: effective
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With respect to claims that have an effective date before January 4, 2004, an individual shall be disqualified from benefits beginning with the first day of the calendar week in which he or she has been discharged or suspended for misconduct connected with his or her work and thereafter for seven calendar weeks and until he or she has obtained bona fide work in employment covered by this title and earned wages in that employment equal to seven times his or her weekly benefit amount. Alcoholism shall not constitute a defense to disqualification from benefits due to misconduct.