Title 50A — Title 50A FAMILY AND MEDICAL LEAVE
11 chapters · 109 sections in this title.
RCW 50A.15.010 Employee eligibility.
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Employees are eligible for family and medical leave benefits as provided in this title after working for at least eight hundred twenty hours in employment during the qualifying period.[ 2019 c 13 s 2; 2017 3rd sp.s. c 5 s 3. Formerly RCW 50A.04.015.]
RCW 50A.15.020 Benefit—Amount and duration.
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(1) Beginning January 1, 2020, family and medical leave are available and benefits are payable to a qualified employee under this section.(a) Following a waiting period consisting of the first seven consecutive calendar days, benefits are payable when family or medical leave is r…
RCW 50A.15.030 Employee notice to employer.
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(1) If the necessity for leave for the birth or placement of a child with the employee is foreseeable based on an expected birth or placement, the employee shall provide the employer with not less than thirty days' notice, before the date the leave is to begin, of the employee's …
RCW 50A.15.040 Application for benefits.
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(1) Family and medical leave insurance benefits are payable to an employee during a period in which the employee is unable to perform his or her regular or customary work because he or she is on family and medical leave if the employee:(a) Files an application for benefits as req…
RCW 50A.15.050 Timing of benefit payments—Employer contest of application.
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(1) Benefits provided under this title shall be paid periodically and promptly, except when an employer contests a period of family or medical leave. The department must send the first benefit payment to the employee within fourteen calendar days after the first properly complete…
RCW 50A.15.060 Benefit exclusions and disqualifications—Employee penalties.
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(1) An employee is not entitled to paid family or medical leave benefits under this title:(a) For any absence occasioned by the willful intention of the employee to bring about injury to or the sickness of the employee or another, or resulting from any injury or sickness sustaine…
RCW 50A.15.065 Expiration of leave entitlement.
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(1) The entitlement to family leave benefits for the birth or placement of a child expires at the end of the twelve-month period beginning on the date of such birth or placement.(2) The entitlement to family leave benefits for a family member's serious health condition, or leave …
RCW 50A.15.070 Federal income taxes—Withholding.
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(1) If the internal revenue service determines that family or medical leave benefits under this title are subject to federal income tax, the department must advise an employee filing a new application for benefits, at the time of filing such application, that:(a) The internal rev…
RCW 50A.15.080 Child support obligations—Withholding.
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(1) If the department determines an employee is qualified for benefits and that the employee owes child support obligations, the department shall notify the applicable state or local child support enforcement agency and deduct and withhold an amount from benefits in a manner cons…
RCW 50A.15.090 Repayment and recovery of benefit overpayments.
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(1) An individual who is paid any amount as benefits under this title to which he or she is not entitled shall, unless otherwise relieved pursuant to this section, be liable for repayment of the amount overpaid. The department shall issue an overpayment assessment setting forth t…
RCW 50A.15.100 Unemployment compensation, industrial insurance, and disability insurance laws—Effect on title.
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(1) Leave from employment under this title is in addition to leave from employment during which benefits are paid or are payable under Title 51 RCW or other applicable federal or state industrial insurance laws.(2) An employee is disqualified from receiving family or medical leav…
RCW 50A.15.110 Leave available under other laws—Coordination.
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(1) Leave under this title and leave under the federal family and medical leave act of 1993 (Act Feb. 5, 1993, P.L. 103-3, 107 Stat. 6, as it existed on October 19, 2017) is in addition to any leave for sickness or temporary disability because of pregnancy or childbirth.(2) Unles…
RCW 50A.15.120 Assignment, pledge, or encumbrance of right to benefits due or payable void—Exemptions.
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Any assignment, pledge, or encumbrance of any right to benefits that are or may become due or payable under this title is void. Such rights to benefits are exempt from levy, execution, attachment, or any other remedy whatsoever provided for the collection of debts, except as prov…