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Overview<\/h4>\n

The University grants eligible staff up to five days of bereavement time off for the death of a family member or for loss of pregnancy. For the purposes of bereavement, a qualifying pregnancy is defined as the pregnancy of the employee, including a surrogate, or employee parent-to-be, including through surrogacy or adoption, where the employee would have been the parent.<\/p>\n

Bereavement time off is separate from your accrued sick and vacation time off. The amount of paid bereavement for regular staff depends on their employment program and is subject to bargaining. Updates to the table below will be made as bereavement time off provisions are updated or bargained.<\/p>\n

Entitlement for regular staff<\/h5>\n\n\n\n\n\t\n\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t
Employment Program or CBA<\/th>Days of paid bereavement<\/th>\n<\/tr>\n<\/thead>\n
Classified Non-Union<\/td>5 days<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Professional Staff<\/td>5 days<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
SEIU Local 925<\/td>5 days<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
WFSE<\/td>5 days<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
SEIU 1199 NW HMC<\/td>5 days<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
SEIU 1199 NW UWMC-NW<\/td>5 days<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
SEIU 1199NW Research and Husky Health<\/td>5 days<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
WSNA Montlake<\/td>5 days<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
WSNA Northwest<\/td>5 days<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
UAW Research, RSE<\/td>3 days<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
UAW Research, Research Coordinators and Research Consultants<\/td>5 days<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
SEIU 925 Libraries PLEs<\/td>3 days<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
SEIU IHME<\/td>3 days<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
WFSE Police Management<\/td>3 days<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
IBU<\/td>5 days<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Teamsters 117 Police<\/td>3 days<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
SAG-AFTRA<\/td>5 days<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
SEIU 925 Continuum College<\/td>3 days<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
SEIU 925 Advisers<\/td>5 days<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
ICA Contract Staff<\/td>5 days<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Husky Health Physicians<\/td>5 days<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Teamsters 117 Print Plant<\/td>5 days<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
UAW Postdocs<\/td>5 days<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Medical residents<\/td>5 days<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n\n
Entitlement for nonpermanent and fixed term staff<\/h5>\n

Employees in nonpermanent and intermittent classified non-union positions, nonpermanent fixed duration positions represented by SEIU 925 and salaried fixed term professional staff temporary positions are also eligible for bereavement time off in accordance with their collective bargaining agreement or employment program.<\/p>\n

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Definition of family member<\/h4>\n\n\n\n\n\t\n\n\t\n\t\n\t
If you are . . .<\/th>Your covered family member is . . .<\/th>\n<\/tr>\n<\/thead>\n
Classified Non-Union<\/td>Defined by Washington Administrative Code (WAC) 357-01-072<\/a> and 357-01-172.<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Contract Covered staff<\/td>Determined by your collective bargaining agreement<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Other staff<\/td>\u201cFamily member\u201d is defined as a child or parent (including biological, adopted, foster, step, regardless of age or dependency, or legal guardian, or de facto parent or parent-in-law), a spouse, state registered domestic partner, spouse\u2019s parent, grandparent, grandchild, or sibling, child\u2019s spouse, or child\u2019s registered domestic partner. \u201cFamily member\u201d includes any individual who regularly resides in the employee\u2019s home or where the relationship creates an expectation that the employee care for the person, and that individual depends on the employee for care. \u201cFamily member\u201d does not include an individual who simply resides in the same home with no expectation that the employee cares for the individual.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n\n

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Requesting bereavement\u00a0time off<\/h4>\n

Bereavement time off must be taken in full-day increments.<\/p>\n