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792CH - Courthouse Union <br />15.4 The Employer will require the employee to first use and exhaust all paid leave available to the <br />employee as part of any Family and Medical Leave, unless FMLA is taken concurrently with any <br />other federal or state leave that dictates that an employee may choose to use unpaid leave in <br />coordination with protected leave. <br />15.5 All requests for leave and any other notices regarding Family and Medical Leave shall be in <br />writing. <br />1s.6 This Article shall be consistent with the FMLA and adopted regulations, and is not intended to <br />expand upon the rights set forth in said Act or regulations. <br />ARTICLE XVI- BEREAVEMENT LEAVE <br />16.1 Paid Bereavement Leave shall be limited to three (3) days in any one (1) instance. The Employer <br />may grant additional days, not to exceed five (5) days if the death of an immediate family <br />member occurs out of state. lmmediate family includes only persons related by blood or <br />marriage or legal adoption in the degree of consanguinity of wife, husband, parent, <br />grandparent, brother, sister, child orgrandchild of the employee and other relatives residing in <br />the employee's household. lt is understood that this leave is granted separate and apart from <br />PTO a nd/or compensatory. <br />ARTICTE XVII- MILITARY LEAVE. JURY LEAVE. AND LEAVE OF ABSENCE <br />17.t Military Leave: Every employee covered by this agreement who is a member of the Washington <br />National Guard or of the army, naw, air force, coast guard, or marine corps reserve of the <br />United States, or of any organized reserve or armed forces of the United States shall be entitled <br />to, and shall be granted, military leave of absence from employment for a period not exceeding <br />21 days during each year beginning October 1't and ending the following September 30th. Such <br />leave shall be granted in order that the person may report for active duty, when called, or take <br />part in active training duty in such manner and at such time as he or she may be ordered to <br />active duty or active training duty. Such military leave of absence shall be in addition to any PTO <br />leave to which the employee might otherwise be entitled, and shall not involve any loss of <br />efficiency rating, privileges, or pay. During the period of military leave, the employee shall <br />receive from the Employer the employee's regular rate of pay for their permanent classification. <br />A copy of the orders will be attached to the employee's timesheet. <br />17.2 Jury Duty: Any employee who is called for jury duty shall receive from the County the difference <br />between their regular pay and the compensation received for jury duty for the actual time they <br />are required to be absent from work because of such jury duty. Any such absence shall not be <br />counted as accumulated PTO leave. <br />L7.3 Seniority status shall be maintained during approved leaves of absence <br />17.4 Accrued PTO, comp time, and personal holidays shall be used before any unpaid leave of <br />absence can be authorized, with the exception of the two (2) unpaid religious holidays, and <br />where use of other state or federal leave dictates that an employee may choose to use unpaid <br />t7