PERMANENT RULES
Purpose: Per RCW 41.06.170, the board has the authority to define the exemption criteria for student, part-time and temporary employees, part-time professional consultants, and inmates. The following rules will be part of the general provisions chapter of the new civil service rules (Title 357 WAC).
Statutory Authority for Adoption: Chapter 41.06 RCW.
Adopted under notice filed as WSR 04-12-088 on June 2, 2004.
Changes Other than Editing from Proposed to Adopted Version: Under WSR 04-12-088, WAC 357-04-055(4) read "Patient and resident help in general government residential and correctional facilities; and..." The adopted version removes the words "and correctional" and adds a new subsection (5) which reads "Inmate help in general government correctional facilities; and..."
Number of Sections Adopted in Order to Comply with Federal Statute: New 0, Amended 0, Repealed 0; Federal Rules or Standards: New 0, Amended 0, Repealed 0; or Recently Enacted State Statutes: New 5, Amended 0, Repealed 0.
Number of Sections Adopted at Request of a Nongovernmental Entity: New 0, Amended 0, Repealed 0.
Number of Sections Adopted on the Agency's Own Initiative: New 0, Amended 0, Repealed 0.
Number of Sections Adopted in Order to Clarify, Streamline, or Reform Agency Procedures: New 0, Amended 0, Repealed 0.
Number of Sections Adopted Using Negotiated Rule Making: New 0, Amended 0, Repealed 0; Pilot Rule Making: New 0, Amended 0, Repealed 0; or Other Alternative Rule Making: New 5, Amended 0, Repealed 0.
Date Adopted: July 8, 2004.
E. C. Matt
Secretary
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(2) Students who are employed through the state or federal work/study programs are exempt.
(3) Students are exempt if they are employed by the institution at which they are enrolled (or by a related board) and meet any one of the following conditions:
(a) The student works five hundred sixteen hours or less (516 or less) in any six consecutive months. Hours worked in a temporary position(s) during the summer and other breaks in the academic year are not counted in the five hundred sixteen (516) hours. The position is exempt only if the student does not take the place of a classified employee who was laid off due to lack of funds or lack of work; and the student does not fill a position that is currently or was formerly occupied by a classified employee during the current or prior calendar or fiscal year, whichever is longer.
(b) The student is employed in a position directly related to his/her major field of study to provide a training opportunity; or
(c) The student is elected or appointed to a student body office or student organization position such as student officers or student news staff members.
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Employees who are either exempt under this subsection or exceptions authorized under WAC 357-19-440, and who work more than three hundred fifty (350) hours in any twelve consecutive month period from the original date of hire or January 1, 2004, whichever is later, may be included in an appropriate bargaining unit for purposes of collective bargaining, as determined by the public employment relations commission. Overtime and time worked as a student employee under the provisions of WAC 357-04-040 are not counted in the three-hundred fifty (350) hours.
Temporary appointment under the provisions of this section may be subject to remedial action in accordance with WAC 357-19-450, if the number of hours worked exceeds one thousand fifty hours (1050 hours) in any twelve (12) consecutive month period from the original date of hire or October 1, 1989, whichever is later. Overtime and time worked as a student employee under the provisions of WAC 357-04-040 are not counted in the one thousand fifty (1050) hours.
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(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.
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