Section 357-31-395. What definitions apply to shared leave?

(1) "Employee" means any employee who is 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, grandparent, or parent.

(3) "Severe" or "extraordinary" condition is defined as serious or extreme and/or life threatening.

(4) "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.

(5) "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. 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.]

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.