{"id":78,"date":"2025-09-05T15:03:25","date_gmt":"2025-09-05T22:03:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hr.uw.edu\/time-absence\/?page_id=78"},"modified":"2026-06-27T10:20:33","modified_gmt":"2026-06-27T17:20:33","slug":"pay-during-leave","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/hr.uw.edu\/time-absence\/fmla-and-pfml\/family-and-medical-leave-act-fmla\/pay-during-leave\/","title":{"rendered":"Pay during FMLA leave"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>This page applies to all staff, academic personnel, and student employees.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>FMLA-covered leave is unpaid unless you use one or more of your time off options while absent. Possible pay continuation options include:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Sick time off<\/li>\n<li>Vacation time off<\/li>\n<li>Personal holiday<\/li>\n<li>Compensatory time off<\/li>\n<li>Holiday credit<\/li>\n<li>Discretionary time off<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/hr.uw.edu\/time-absence\/time-absence\/staff-leaves\/shared-leave-options\/\">Shared leave<\/a> (for employees who accrue time off)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>You may also have the option to take unpaid time off.<\/p>\n<p>If you are a contract covered staff employee, check your <a href=\"http:\/\/hr.uw.edu\/labor\/unions\">collective bargaining agreement<\/a>\u00a0to determine if you must use types of paid time off in a particular order.<\/p>\n<h4><strong>For faculty<\/strong><\/h4>\n<p>FMLA-covered leave is unpaid unless you have faculty sick or parental leave available (up to 90 days per academic year).<\/p>\n<h4>PFML Partial Wage Replacement<\/h4>\n<p>All employees (faculty, academic personnel, staff and student employees) who have worked for the University (or the State of Washington) for 180 days can also apply for <a href=\"https:\/\/hr.uw.edu\/time-absence\/time-absence\/fmla-and-pfml\/paid-family-and-medical-leave\/\">PFML<\/a> partial wage replacement benefits during a leave covered by FMLA.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How to continue your pay while on FMLA leave.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":49,"featured_media":0,"parent":67,"menu_order":40,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_lmt_disableupdate":"no","_lmt_disable":"no","slim_seo":{"title":"Pay during FMLA leave - Time and Absence","description":"How to continue your pay while on FMLA leave."},"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-78","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hr.uw.edu\/time-absence\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/78","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hr.uw.edu\/time-absence\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hr.uw.edu\/time-absence\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hr.uw.edu\/time-absence\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/49"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hr.uw.edu\/time-absence\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=78"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/hr.uw.edu\/time-absence\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/78\/revisions"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hr.uw.edu\/time-absence\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/67"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hr.uw.edu\/time-absence\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=78"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}