In accordance with RCW 41.06.070, the board defines exemptions for student, part-time or temporary employees; part-time professional consultants; and inmates. The following types of general government employees are exempt from civil service rules:

(1) Part-time local health officers;

(2) Persons employed on a part-time, or temporary basis for medical, nursing or other professional service and who are not engaged in the performance of administrative duties;

(3) Part-time or temporary employees who are enrolled as full-time students in recognized educational institutions and whose employment is largely to provide a training opportunity, and all temporary employees not in federal grant-in-aid programs;

(4) Patient and resident help in general government residential facilities;

(5) Inmate help in general government correctional facilities; and

(6) Skilled and unskilled labor employed temporarily on force account; construction and maintenance projects; or employed on temporary seasonal single phases of agricultural production or harvesting; or as determined by the director to be equivalent.