Washington Administrative Code › Title 392 - Public Instruction, Superintendent of › Chapter 392-136A - Finance-Shared leave › Section 392-136A-020 - Definitions

Current through Register Vol. 24-14, July 15, 2024
As used in this chapter the term:
(1) "Annual leave" means vacation leave that
			 an employee accrues and is maintained in records of a district for employees
			 eligible to accrue annual leave.
(2) "District" means a school district or an
			 educational service district.
(3)
			 "Domestic violence" has the same meaning as set forth in
			 RCW
			 41.04.655.
(4) "Donated annual leave" means the amount
			 of annual leave donated by a leave donor under the shared leave
			 program.
(5) "Donated sick leave"
			 means the amount of sick leave donated by a leave donor under the shared leave
			 program.
(6) "Donated personal
			 holiday" means the amount of personal holiday donated by a leave donor under
			 the shared leave program of an educational service district pursuant to
			 RCW
			 1.16.050.
(7) "Employee" means any school district or
			 educational service district employee entitled to use and accrue annual and/or
			 sick leave and for whom accurate leave records are maintained.
(8) "Employee's relative" means the
			 employee's spouse, registered domestic partner, child, stepchild, grandchild,
			 grandparent, parent, or sibling.
(9) "Extraordinary or severe" means serious
			 or extreme and/or life threatening.
(10) "Family or household members" has the
			 same meaning as set forth in
			 RCW
			 10.99.020.
(11) "Household members" means persons who
			 reside in the same home who have reciprocal duties to and do provide financial
			 support for one another. The term does not include persons sharing the same
			 house when the living style is primarily that of a dormitory or
			 commune.
(12) "Leave donor" means
			 an employee who has an approved request for the transfer of annual leave, sick
			 leave, or personal holiday to the shared leave program.
(13) "Leave recipient" means a current
			 employee who has an approved application to receive shared leave.
(14) "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.
(15) "Personal holiday" means the additional
			 paid holiday per calendar year granted to an educational service district
			 employee pursuant to
			 RCW
			 1.16.050.
(16) "Pregnancy disability" means a
			 pregnancy-related medical condition or miscarriage.
(17) "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,
			 fulltime 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.
(18) "Sexual assault" has the
			 same meaning as set forth in
			 RCW
			 70.125.030.
(19) "Sick leave" means leave granted to an
			 employee for the purpose of absence from work with pay in the event of illness,
			 injury, and emergencies as authorized in
			 RCW
			 28A.400.300.
(20) "Stalking" has the same meaning as set
			 forth in RCW 9A.46.110.
(21) "State employer" means a state agency,
			 the legislature, an institution of higher education, or a related higher
			 education board.
(22) "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.
(23) "Victim" means a person against whom
			 domestic violence, sexual assault, or stalking has been committed as defined in
			 this section.