Wash. Rev. Code § 50A.15.010
Employee eligibility
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.
Revised Code of Washington Chapter 50A.15 — Benefits
Washington · statute · Wash. Rev. Code ch. 50A.15 · 13 active provisions
Wash. Rev. Code § 50A.15.020
Benefit—Amount and duration
(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 required. However, no waiting period is r…
Wash. Rev. Code § 50A.15.030
Employee notice to employer
(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 intention to take leave for the birth or…
Wash. Rev. Code § 50A.15.040
Application for benefits
(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 required by rules adopted by the commission…
Wash. Rev. Code § 50A.15.050
Timing of benefit payments—Employer contest of application
(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 completed weekly application is received by the…
Wash. Rev. Code § 50A.15.060
Benefit exclusions and disqualifications—Employee penalties
(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 sustained in the perpetration by the employee of…
Wash. Rev. Code § 50A.15.065
Expiration of leave entitlement
(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 for qualifying exigency, expires at the…
Wash. Rev. Code § 50A.15.070
Federal income taxes—Withholding
(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 revenue service has determined that benefit…
Wash. Rev. Code § 50A.15.080
Child support obligations—Withholding
(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 consistent with RCW 50.40.050.(2) For the pu…
Wash. Rev. Code § 50A.15.090
Repayment and recovery of benefit overpayments
(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 the reasons for and the amount of the ove…
Wash. Rev. Code § 50A.15.100
Unemployment compensation, industrial insurance, and disability insurance laws—Effect on title
(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 leave benefits under this title for any week…
Wash. Rev. Code § 50A.15.110
Leave available under other laws—Coordination
(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) Unless otherwise expressly permitted by the e…
Wash. Rev. Code § 50A.15.120
Assignment, pledge, or encumbrance of right to benefits due or payable void—Exemptions
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 provided in RCW 50A.15.080. Benefits receive…