{"id":9,"date":"2020-06-10T16:57:09","date_gmt":"2020-06-10T16:57:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hr.uw.edu\/diversity\/?page_id=9"},"modified":"2026-07-13T10:07:33","modified_gmt":"2026-07-13T17:07:33","slug":"veterans-resources","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/hr.uw.edu\/diversity\/veterans-resources\/","title":{"rendered":"Veterans&#8217; resources"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3><a href=\"https:\/\/hr.uw.edu\/diversity\/veterans-resources\/veterans-preference\/\">Veterans\u2019 preference<i class=\"fa fa-angle-right m-l-xs\"><\/i><\/a><\/h3>\n<p>Certain individuals receive some degree of preference in appointments to state jobs under Washington State law.<\/p>\n<h3><a href=\"https:\/\/hr.uw.edu\/diversity\/veterans-resources\/definitions\/\">Definition of veteran<i class=\"fa fa-angle-right m-l-xs\"><\/i><\/a><\/h3>\n<p>Veterans are defined for state and federal employment purposes.<\/p>\n<h3><a href=\"https:\/\/hr.uw.edu\/ops\/leaves\/military-duty\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Military duty leave <i class=\"fa fa-external-link\"><\/i><\/a><\/h3>\n<p>The rights and responsibilities of UW employees called to military duty.<\/p>\n<h3><a href=\"https:\/\/hr.uw.edu\/ops\/leaves\/shared-leave-options\/veterans-in-state-service-shared-leave-pool\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Veterans in-state service shared leave pool <i class=\"fa fa-external-link\"><\/i><\/a><\/h3>\n<p>The Veterans\u2019 In-State Service Shared Leave Pool (VISSLP) Program allows UW employees to maintain a level of compensation and employee benefits equal to the amount they would have received if they were using accrued vacation or sick time off.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In recognition of the sacrifices made by those serving in the U.S. Armed Forces, veterans receive some degree of preference in appointments to state jobs under Washington State law.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":49,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":60,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_lmt_disableupdate":"no","_lmt_disable":"","slim_seo":{"title":"Veterans' resources - Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion","description":"In recognition of the sacrifices made by those serving in the U.S. Armed Forces, veterans receive some degree of preference in appointments to state jobs under"},"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"class_list":["post-9","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hr.uw.edu\/diversity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/9","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hr.uw.edu\/diversity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hr.uw.edu\/diversity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hr.uw.edu\/diversity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/49"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hr.uw.edu\/diversity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/hr.uw.edu\/diversity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/9\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1347,"href":"https:\/\/hr.uw.edu\/diversity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/9\/revisions\/1347"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hr.uw.edu\/diversity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hr.uw.edu\/diversity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}