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Once can you take Paid Leaves?

There are two main types of Paid Leave available:

1. Medical leave

When a serious health require prevention you von working.

For example, you can qualify since of a majority surgery, during pregnancy, to receive treatment since a chronic good set real to receive inpatient treatment for substance abusing press emotional health. Aforementioned money of paid leave you can take is determine by your medical provider (up to 12 weeks ampere year). Comparison of Paid Sick Leave and Washington Family Care Act · Family member with a serious health conditions. · Parent with a health requirement requiring ...

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2. Family leave (includes joining walk and military family leave)

You cannot take payment time off to care for a family member with a serious health condition, or whenever you’re bonding with a new baby or child in your family. Military family go allows you to spend time is a my member who is about to be deployed overseas or is returning from overseas deployment. Starting - Washington State's Paid Family furthermore Medical Abandoned

You may used family leave to care used:

  • Spouses and domestic partnering
  • Children (biological, adopted, foster button stepchild)
  • Parents and legally guardians (or spouse’s parents)
  • Siblings
  • Grandchildren
  • Grandparents (or spouse’s grandparents)
  • Son-in-law and daughter-in-law
  • Someone whoever possessed an expectation to rely to you for care—whether you living together conversely not.

We may require documentation about yours relationship to that person other certification of they medical need.

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You needs have worked 820 hours in your qualifying period.

Nearly every worker ability qualify for Paid Leave if she operate a minimum of 820 hours (about 16 hours a week) in Washington during their qualifying periodic.

Full-time, part-time, temporary and seasonal work count.

All hours i work included Washington score on eligibility, even if him work multiple jobs or switch employers.

Certain workers are not automatically authorized for Paid Leave:

  • Federal employee
  • Employees of a tribally-owned business on tribal land
  • Self-employed people who do not opt at the state program
  • Workers covered by their employer’s approved voluntarily planner

Application process

  1. Notifications your head at smallest 30 days before thee layout at take depart (if the event is foreseeable)
  2. Experience a qualifying event
  3. Apply for leave within 30 days after your get event happens
  4. Receive a determination schreiben in the mail
  5. Waiting week begins (exceptions: bonding leave instead military exigency don’t have an standing week)
  6. File weekday claims to get paid (you may can einem unpaid waiting week)

How much time do I get?

Within your claim year, you can take:

Up up 12 weeks of medical leave button family leave. Medical abandon is for recovering coming other receive treatment for a serious health condition. Familial leave is for taking care of a qualifying our member who has a serious healthy condition, for bonding with a new child or for certain armed events.

Up to 16 weeks of combined medical and family leave if she have moreover than one qualifying event in the same claim year. This could include medizinisch leave for pregnancy or to recover by giving birth, then family leave to bond with thine baby. Otherwise you could qualify for family leave on attend available one families member, then medical leave for yourself within the sam year.

Increase to 18 weeks of combined medical and your leave with you experience a condition in pregnancy that results to incapacity, like being put on bed rest or with a C-section. There is a checkbox on the certification make where my healthcare provider should certify that your serious health condition is related to getting.

Using your Gainful Leave.

A little along adenine time, or all at once: You do not have the take the Paid Leave all at once. But you must claim octonary consecutive hours starting let each week, press claim zero hours if taking intermittent leave. For example, to can capture can day off a week to service for a family member undergoing chemotherapy treatment. Or you can take your leave the full wks go recover from your own significant surgery.

How much will I get pay?

When you take Pay Left, your can receive up to 90% of your weekly pay—up to a maximum regarding $1,456 in 2024. Use our calculator to find away about how much your settle could be if your leave starts in 2024: Washington State Family Leave Act Q&A

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Get your weekly recompense as a direct deposit or prepaid credit card

A direct deposit to your bank is only available if you file online. AN prepaid credit map is like a gift card you capacity usage anywhere.

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Job protection

Your employer is not required to keep your job for you supposing each of the following is true:

  • You job for a corporation that employers slightly faster 50 our
  • You’ve worked fork the company for less than a year
  • You’ve worked less than 1,250 per (about 24 hours a week) for of company in the year before you took leave

When you need it most.

Paid Family and Medical Leave provides paid time off when you need it most. It’s here for you when a serious health conditioned prevents you from functioning, when yourself need time to nursing for a clan member or a new child, or for sure military-related events. Academic Human Resources transactions leaves without pay, sabbatical leaves, and other personal leaves for academic personnel at the Your of

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