Language Services

Our staff can provide you with oral interpretation or written document translation services into non-English languages free of charge.

Contact our Office of Information Assistance at 1-800-547-8367 during our business hours of 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. Monday through Friday and speak to one of our representatives about what we can translate.

Labor & Industries is NOT associated with the Immigration and Naturalization Service. We will not report an undocumented worker to the federal government or to a local police authority; it is our intent to ensure employees are provided a safe workplace, appropriate wages, and medical coverage if injured.

L&I; language policies, plans and agreements

• Language Access Plan (352 KB PDF).
• Language Access Services Policy (324 KB PDF).
• Language Access Services Policy (Spanish) (297 KB PDF).
• L&I;/USDOJ Memorandum of Agreement (1.72 MB PDF).

File a language access or other civil rights complaint

Title VI of the Civil Rights Act prohibits discrimination on the basis of race, color, or national origin in any program or activity that receives federal funds or other federal financial assistance. If you requested and have not received services in your preferred language, or if you feel the Department of Labor & Industries has discriminated against you, please contact the L&I's Civil Rights Complaint Hotline at 1-855-682-0778. Other options for filing a discrimination complaint include contacting the Washington State Office of the Attorney General (www.atg.wa.gov) (phone: 1-800-551-4636), Washington State Human Rights Commission (www.hum.wa.gov) (phone: 1-800-233-3247), the U.S. Department of Labor (www.dol.gov) (phone: 1-202-693-6500), and the U.S. Department of Justice (www.justice.gov) (phone: 1-855-856-1247).