• An illness, disability, or injury that has incapacitated the employee from performing required duties.
• Exposure of the employee to a contagious disease when the employee's presence at work would jeopardize the health of others.
• To care for a minor/dependent child with a health condition requiring treatment or supervision.
• To care for a spouse, parent, parent-in-law, or grandparent of the employee who has a serious health condition or emergency health condition.
• For family care emergencies per WAC 357-31-290, 357-31-295, 357-31-300, and 357-31-305.
• For personal health care appointments.
• For family members' health care appointments when the presence of the employee is required if arranged in advance with the employing official or designee.
• When an employee is required to be absent from work to care for members of the employee's household or relatives of the employee/employee's spouse who experience an illness or injury.

Bereavement Leave

Non-represented classified employees, whose family member or household member dies, are entitled to three (3) days of paid bereavement leave.

Military Leave

Employees are granted fifteen (15) days of paid leave for active duty or active training duty, beginning October 1^st and ending the following September 30^th.  Employees may also use their accrued vacation leave and any accumulated compensatory time, refer to WAC 357-31-360.

Employees will be paid his/her salary through the last day he/she worked for the agency in paid status.  Once the employee utilizes the 15 days of paid military leave (and any requested approved leave), the employee is on military leave without pay status, refer to WAC 357-31-370.

Shared Leave

The shared leave program allows state employees to come to aid of another state employee if the employee:

• Has been called to service in the uniformed services.
• Suffers from or has a relative or household member suffering from an extraordinary or severe illness, injury, impairment, or physical or mental condition which has caused or is likely to cause the employee to take leave without pay or terminate his or her employment.

Leave donated under the civil service rules and shared leave statutes may be transferred from employees of one employer to an employee of the same employer or, with the approval of the heads of both employers, to an employee of another state employer.

Refer to WAC 357-31-380, 31-390, 31-395, 31-400, 31-405, 31-410, 31-415, 31-420, 31-425, 31-430, 31-435, 31-440, 31-445, 31-450, and 31-455.

Family and Medical Leave Act (FMLA)

The Family and Medical Leave Act (refer to WAC 357-31-520, 31-525, 31-530, 31-535, 31-540, 31-545, 31-550, 31-560) entitles employees who have worked for the state for at least twelve (12) months and for at least one thousand two hundred fifty (1,250) hours during the previous twelve-month period to 12 weeks of leave for the following reasons:

• As a result of the employee's serious health condition;
• To care for an employee's parent, spouse, or minor/dependent child who has a serious health condition and/or;
• To provide care to an employee's newborn, adopted or foster child as provided in WAC 357-31-460.

Paid Holidays

Each employee is entitled to receive pay for State holidays observed throughout the year.  Traditionally, those paid holidays include:

• The first day of January (New Year's Day);
• The third Monday of January (Martin Luther King, Jr.'s birthday);
• The third Monday of February (Presidents' Day);
• The last Monday of May (Memorial Day);
• The fourth day of July (Independence Day);
• The first Monday in September (Labor Day);
• The eleventh da