PDFWAC 357-31-395

What definitions apply to shared leave?

The following definitions apply to shared leave as defined in RCW 41.04.655:
(1) "Employee" means any employee of the state, including employees of school districts and educational service districts, who are entitled to accrue sick leave or vacation leave and for whom accurate leave records are maintained.
(2) "Employee's relative" normally must be limited to the employee's spouse, registered domestic partner, child, grandchild, sibling, grandparent, or parent.
(3) "Parental leave" means leave to bond and care for a newborn child after birth or to bond and care for a child after placement for adoption or foster care.
(4) "Pregnancy disability" means a pregnancy-related medical condition or miscarriage.
(5) "Service in the uniformed services" means the performance of duty on a voluntary or involuntary basis in a uniformed service under competent authority and includes active duty, active duty for training, initial active duty for training, inactive duty training, full-time national guard duty including state-ordered active duty and a period for which a person is absent from a position of employment for the purpose of an examination to determine the fitness of the person to perform any such duty.
(6) "Severe" or "extraordinary" condition is defined as serious, extreme or life threatening.
(7) "Uniformed services" means the armed forces, the army national guard, and the air national guard of any state, territory, commonwealth, possession, or district when engaged in active duty for training, inactive duty training, full-time national guard duty, or state active duty, the commissioned corps of the public health service, the coast guard and any other category of persons designated by the President of the United States in time of war or national emergency.
[Statutory Authority: Chapter 41.06 RCW and RCW 41.04.655. WSR 20-24-017, § 357-31-395, filed 11/20/20, effective 12/28/20. Statutory Authority: Chapter 41.04 RCW and RCW 41.04.665. WSR 19-05-055, § 357-31-395, filed 2/15/19, effective 3/29/19. Statutory Authority: Chapter 43.01 RCW. WSR 18-17-130, § 357-31-395, filed 8/20/18, effective 9/21/18. Statutory Authority: Chapter 41.06 RCW. WSR 09-17-056 and 09-18-113, § 357-31-395, filed 8/13/09 and 9/2/09, effective 12/3/09; WSR 05-08-139, § 357-31-395, filed 4/6/05, effective 7/1/05.]