FAMILY AND MEDICAL LEAVE AND PREGNANCY DISABILITY. 13.1 Family and Medical Leave
FAMILY AND MEDICAL LEAVE AND PREGNANCY DISABILITY. Family and Medical Leave Consistent with the federal Family and Medical Leave Act of 1993 (FMLA) and any amendments thereto, an employee who has worked for the state for at least twelve (12) months and for at least one thousand two hundred fifty (1,250) hours during the twelve (12) months prior to the requested leave is entitled up to twelve (12) workweeks of FMLA leave in a twelve (12) month period for any combination of the following reasons 1-4: Parental leave for the birth and to care for a newborn child, or placement for adoption or xxxxxx care of a child and to care for that child; or Personal medical leave due to the employee’s own serious health condition that requires the employee’s absence from work; or Family medical leave to care for a spouse, son, daughter, parent or domestic partner as defined by WAC 000-00-000 (2) who suffers from a serious health condition that requires on-site care or supervision by the employee. Son or daughter means a biological, adopted, or xxxxxx child, a stepchild, a legal xxxx, or a child of a person standing in loco parentis, who is either under age eighteen (18), or age eighteen (18) or older and incapable of self-care because of a mental or physical disability. Parent means a biological parent or an individual who stands or stood in loco parentis to an employee when the employee was a son or daughter; or A qualifying exigency, as defined by the Department of Labor, arising from the fact that the spouse, or a son, daughter or parent of the employee is on active duty or has been notified of an impending call to active duty in the Armed Forces in support of a contingency operation. Active duty means a call or order to active duty under a provision of law referred to in section 101 (a) (13) (B) of title 10, United States Code, Contingency Operations is defined in section 101 (a) (13) of title 10, United States Code. Servicemember Family Leave will be provided to an eligible employee who is the spouse, child, parent or next of kin of a covered servicemember to take up to twenty-six (26) workweeks of leave in a single twelve (12) month period to care for the covered servicemember who is suffering from a serious illness or injury incurred in the line of duty. During the single twelve (12) month period during which Servicemember Family Leave is taken the employee may only take a combined total of twenty-six (26) workweeks of leave for Servicemember Family Leave and leave taken for the other FMLA qualifying reasons. Servic...
