Blanchana, LLC v. Bureau of Labor & Industries
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In a wage claim case, the issue before the Supreme Court was whether the Bureau of Labor and Industries (BOLI) correctly determined that a business entity, Blachana, LLC, was a "successor" employer and must, therefore, reimburse BOLI for wages paid from the Wage Security Fund on behalf of four wage claimants. The employees had worked for NW Sportsbar Inc. before that corporation went out of business and surrendered its property and business to Blachana. The Court of Appeals reversed the holding that Blachana was not a "successor to the business" of NW Sportsbar. The Supreme Court concluded that BOLI did not err in deciding that an entity is a successor to a business if it "conducted essentially the same business as conducted by the predecessor."
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