Washington Administrative Code (Last Updated: November 23, 2016) |
Title 357. Financial Management, Office of -- State Human Resources Director |
Chapter 357-31. Holidays and leave. |
Section 357-31-005. For the purpose of chapter 357-31 WAC, what days are recognized as holidays? |
Section 357-31-010. Which employees qualify for holiday compensation? |
Section 357-31-015. How many hours are general government employees compensated for on a holiday? |
Section 357-31-020. For general government part-time employees, how is holiday compensation prorated? |
Section 357-31-025. How many hours are higher education employees compensated for on a holiday? |
Section 357-31-030. What happens when a holiday falls on an employee's scheduled day off? |
Section 357-31-035. How is an employee who works on a holiday compensated? |
Section 357-31-040. What happens when a holiday as identified in WAC 357-31-005 falls on Saturday or Sunday? |
Section 357-31-045. If an employee resigns or is dismissed or separated during a month in which there is a holiday, will he/she be compensated for the holiday? |
Section 357-31-050. How is an employee's holiday determined when an employee works a night shift schedule which begins on one calendar day and ends on the next? |
Section 357-31-052. Is an employee entitled to any unpaid holidays? |
Section 357-31-053. Within what time frame must an employee notify their supervisor to request an unpaid holiday in accordance with WAC 357-31-052? |
Section 357-31-055. When does an employee qualify for a personal holiday? |
Section 357-31-060. How many hours are general government employees compensated for when taking a personal holiday? |
Section 357-31-065. How many hours are higher education employees compensated for when taking a personal holiday? |
Section 357-31-070. When is an employer required to approve an employee's request to use a personal holiday? |
Section 357-31-075. Within what time frame must the personal holiday be taken? |
Section 357-31-080. What happens if an employee requests to use his/her personal holiday in accordance with the employer's leave procedures and the employer denies the request? |
Section 357-31-090. Can an employee request to donate or use part of a personal holiday? |
Section 357-31-095. If an employee donates a personal holiday to another employee and a portion of the personal holiday is returned, can the donating employee use the remaining hours? |
Section 357-31-100. Must an employer have a policy for requesting and approving leave? |
Section 357-31-105. How will an unauthorized absence be treated? |
Section 357-31-110. What happens to an employee's accrued leave when the employee changes employers? |
Section 357-31-115. How many hours of sick leave does an employee earn each month? |
Section 357-31-120. Do employees accrue sick leave if they have taken leave without pay during the month? |
Section 357-31-125. For general government part-time employees, how is leave accrual prorated? |
Section 357-31-130. When can an employee use accrued sick leave? |
Section 357-31-135. When and how does an employee request the use of sick leave? |
Section 357-31-140. May an employee use sick leave before it is accrued? |
Section 357-31-145. When an employee is on vacation leave and a condition listed in WAC 357-31-130(1) arises, can the employee use sick leave in place of vacation leave? |
Section 357-31-150. Can an employee be paid for accrued sick leave? |
Section 357-31-155. Does an employee who separates for any reason other than retirement or death get paid for accrued sick leave? |
Section 357-31-160. When a former employee is re-employed, is sick leave restored? |
Section 357-31-165. At what rate do employees accrue vacation leave? |
Section 357-31-170. At what rate do part-time employees accrue vacation leave? |
Section 357-31-175. Do employees accrue vacation leave if they have taken leave without pay during the month? |
Section 357-31-180. When an employee has taken leave without pay during the month is the employee's rate of accrual adjusted for the leave without pay? |
Section 357-31-185. When and how does an employee request the use of vacation leave? |
Section 357-31-190. When can an employee start to use accrued vacation leave? |
Section 357-31-195. Can an employee use vacation leave before it is accrued? |
Section 357-31-200. When must an employer grant the use of vacation leave? |
Section 357-31-205. What must an employer consider in granting the use of vacation leave? |
Section 357-31-210. What is the maximum number of hours of vacation leave that an employee can accumulate? |
Section 357-31-215. When may vacation leave be accumulated above the maximum two hundred forty hours? |
Section 357-31-220. What must be included in the statement of necessity for excess vacation leave? |
Section 357-31-225. When employees separate from state service, are they entitled to a lump sum payment of unused vacation leave? |
Section 357-31-230. When can an employee use accrued compensatory time? |
Section 357-31-235. May an employee use leave if the employee sustains a work-related injury or illness that is compensable under the state workers' compensation law? |
Section 357-31-250. Are employees entitled to paid bereavement leave? |
Section 357-31-255. What types of leave may an employee use when absent from work or arriving late to work because of inclement weather? |
Section 357-31-260. When may an agency head or institution president suspend operations? |
Section 357-31-265. What is the effect of suspended operations on employees who are not required to work during the closure? |
Section 357-31-270. When an employer has suspended operations, how are employees who are required to work during the closure affected? |
Section 357-31-275. What must be included in the employer's suspended operations procedure? |
Section 357-31-280. How long can operations be suspended? |
Section 357-31-285. Is an employer required to authorize the absence of an employee for family care emergencies? |
Section 357-31-290. What qualifies as a family care emergency? |
Section 357-31-295. What type of leave may employees use for family care emergencies? |
Section 357-31-300. Is there a limit to how much leave can be used for a family care emergency? |
Section 357-31-305. Is advance approval required for an employee to take time off for a family care emergency? |
Section 357-31-310. If an employee is required to report for jury duty service, must the employee be granted a leave of absence with pay? |
Section 357-31-315. May employees keep compensation received for serving as a member of a jury? |
Section 357-31-320. If an employee has received a subpoena, must the employee be granted a leave of absence with pay? |
Section 357-31-325. Must an employer grant leave with pay for other miscellaneous reasons such as to take a state examination? |
Section 357-31-326. When may an employer grant leave with pay? |
Section 357-31-327. When must an employer grant leave without pay? |
Section 357-31-330. For what reasons may an employer grant leave without pay? |
Section 357-31-335. How long can an employee remain on leave without pay? |
Section 357-31-340. When an employee returns from authorized leave without pay, what position will he/she be returned to? |
Section 357-31-345. How does leave without pay affect a general government employee's anniversary date, unbroken service date, periodic increment date, and seniority date? |
Section 357-31-346. Does leave without pay affect a higher education employee's periodic increment date? |
Section 357-31-347. Does leave without pay affect a higher education employee's seniority date? |
Section 357-31-350. How does leave without pay affect a general government employee's seniority date? |
Section 357-31-355. How does leave without pay affect the duration of an employee's probationary period, trial service period or transition review period? |
Section 357-31-357. How does leave without pay affect the six-year time period used to qualify for step M? |
Section 357-31-360. Must employees who have been ordered to required military duty, training, drills, or required to appear for a physical examination be granted paid military leave? |
Section 357-31-370. In addition to paid military leave, must an employee be granted a military leave of absence without pay? |
Section 357-31-375. What provisions exist for employees to participate in medical expense plans? |
Section 357-31-380. What is the purpose of the state leave sharing program? |
Section 357-31-390. What criteria does an employee have to meet to be eligible to receive shared leave? |
Section 357-31-395. What definitions apply to shared leave? |
Section 357-31-400. How much shared leave may an employee receive? |
Section 357-31-405. What documentation may an employee seeking shared leave be required to submit? |
Section 357-31-410. May employees donate leave to employees in other agencies, institutions of higher education, related higher education boards, educational service districts, or school districts? |
Section 357-31-415. Can donated leave be used for any purpose? |
Section 357-31-420. What rate of pay is the employee receiving shared leave paid? |
Section 357-31-425. What types of leave can an employee donate for the purposes of the state leave sharing program? |
Section 357-31-430. How will shared leave be administered? |
Section 357-31-435. Must employees use their own leave before using shared leave? |
Section 357-31-440. How must employees who are receiving shared leave be treated during their absence? |
Section 357-31-445. What happens to leave that was donated under the state leave sharing program and was not used by the recipient? |
Section 357-31-447. When must an employer approve a shared leave request for an employee? |
Section 357-31-450. Must an employee who receives shared leave repay the value of the leave that he or she used? |
Section 357-31-455. What records must an employer maintain pertaining to the state leave sharing program? |
Section 357-31-460. For what purposes must parental leave be granted? |
Section 357-31-465. Who qualifies for parental leave? |
Section 357-31-470. How and when can an employee request to be off work on parental leave? |
Section 357-31-475. How long can an employee request to be off work for parental leave? |
Section 357-31-480. Is parental leave in addition to any leave for sickness or temporary disability because of pregnancy and/or childbirth? |
Section 357-31-485. If an employee's request for parental leave exceeds the provisions of WAC 357-31-525, how and when must an employer respond to an employee's request for parental leave? |
Section 357-31-490. Will time off for parental leave be paid or unpaid? |
Section 357-31-495. Will time off for parental leave be designated under the Family and Medical Leave Act? |
Section 357-31-500. When must disability leave due to pregnancy and/or childbirth be granted? |
Section 357-31-505. How does an employee request disability leave due to pregnancy and/or childbirth? |
Section 357-31-510. Is the employee required to provide the employer with medical certification during disability leave due to pregnancy and/or childbirth? |
Section 357-31-515. Will time off during the period of disability leave due to pregnancy and/or childbirth be paid? |
Section 357-31-520. How does the Family and Medical Leave Act of 1993 and the family leave law interact with the civil service rules? |
Section 357-31-525. What is an employee entitled to under the Family and Medical Leave Act of 1993? |
Section 357-31-530. Under the Family and Medical Leave Act of 1993, how is an eligible employee defined? |
Section 357-31-535. Who designates absences which meet the criteria of the Family and Medical Leave Act? |
Section 357-31-540. Who chooses if an employee will use paid leave or leave without pay for absences granted under the Family and Medical Leave Act? |
Section 357-31-545. Under the Family and Medical Leave Act, can an employee request an intermittent or reduced schedule? |
Section 357-31-550. When an employee returns from an absence designated as FMLA, what position will the employee return to? |
Section 357-31-555. Must employers continue health insurance benefits when an employee is on leave designated as FMLA? |
Section 357-31-560. Must the employer have a family and medical leave policy? |
Section 357-31-565. May employers grant paid leave for purposes of recognition? |
Section 357-31-567. When must an employer grant the use of recognition leave? |
Section 357-31-570. What is the purpose of a sick leave pool? |
Section 357-31-575. Must an agency have a written policy regarding sick leave pools? |
Section 357-31-580. What criteria does an employee have to meet to be eligible to participate in a sick leave pool? |
Section 357-31-585. Is participation in a sick leave pool voluntary? |
Section 357-31-590. When is an employee who participates in a sick leave pool eligible to use sick leave from the pool? |
Section 357-31-595. Is a participant eligible to use sick leave from a pool if his/her illness or injury is work-related? |
Section 357-31-600. Is there a limit to the amount of sick leave a participating employee may withdraw from a sick leave pool? |
Section 357-31-605. What rate of pay is the participant who withdraws sick leave from the pool paid? |
Section 357-31-610. How does a part-time participating employee withdraw sick leave credits from a sick leave pool? |
Section 357-31-615. When a participating employee uses leave from a sick leave pool will he/she be required to recontribute such sick leave to the pool? |
Section 357-31-620. When an agency has determined that abuse of a sick leave pool has occurred will the employee have to repay the sick leave credits drawn from the pool? |
Section 357-31-625. When an employee cancels his/her membership in a sick leave pool, can the employee withdraw the days of sick leave he/she had contributed to the pool? |
Section 357-31-630. Can a participant who moves from one general government position to a different general government position transfer from one sick leave pool to another sick leave pool? |
Section 357-31-635. What records must an employer maintain pertaining to sick leave pools? |
Section 357-31-640. What is the purpose of the uniformed service shared leave pool? |
Section 357-31-645. Who will administer the uniformed service shared leave pool? |
Section 357-31-650. What definitions apply to the uniformed service shared leave pool? |
Section 357-31-655. Must employers have a written policy regarding the uniformed service shared leave pool? |
Section 357-31-660. Is participation in the uniformed service shared leave pool voluntary? |
Section 357-31-665. What criteria does an employee have to meet to be eligible to request leave from the uniformed service shared leave pool? |
Section 357-31-670. How must employees who are receiving leave from the uniformed service shared leave pool be treated during their absence? |
Section 357-31-675. Is shared leave received under the uniformed service shared leave pool included in the shared leave limits specified in RCW 41.04.665? |
Section 357-31-680. May employees donating leave direct the donation to a specific individual? |
Section 357-31-685. What types of leave can an employee donate for the purposes of the uniformed service shared leave pool? |
Section 357-31-690. How much leave may an employee withdraw from the uniformed service shared leave pool? |
Section 357-31-695. How is the maximum shared leave pay, which will be granted from the uniformed service shared leave pool calculated? |
Section 357-31-700. What documentation is required to verify military salary and status? |
Section 357-31-705. What rate of pay is paid to the employee receiving leave under the uniformed service shared leave pool? |
Section 357-31-710. What happens if the uniformed service shared leave pool does not have sufficient balance to cover all leave requests? |
Section 357-31-715. May employers establish restrictions on the amount of leave an employee may receive under this section? |
Section 357-31-720. May an employer establish restrictions on the amount of leave an employee may donate under this section? |
Section 357-31-725. When an employer has determined that abuse of the uniformed service shared leave pool has occurred will the employee have to repay the shared leave drawn from the pool? |