43.06.425 - Interns -- Effect of employment experience -- Rights of reversion -- Fringe benefits -- Sick and vacation leave.
Interns — Effect of employment experience — Rights of reversion — Fringe benefits — Sick and vacation leave.
The director of personnel shall adopt rules to provide that:
(1) Successful completion of an internship under RCW 43.06.420 shall be considered as employment experience at the level at which the intern was placed;
(2) Persons leaving classified or exempt positions in state government in order to take an internship under RCW 43.06.420: (a) Have the right of reversion to the previous position at any time during the internship or upon completion of the internship; and (b) shall continue to receive all fringe benefits as if they had never left their classified or exempt positions;
(3) Participants in the undergraduate internship program who were not public employees prior to accepting a position in the program receive sick leave allowances commensurate with other state employees;
(4) Participants in the executive fellows program who were not public employees prior to accepting a position in the program receive sick and vacation leave allowances commensurate with other state employees.
[2002 c 354 § 229; 1993 c 281 § 48; 1985 c 442 § 4.]
Notes: Short title -- Headings, captions not law -- Severability -- Effective dates -- 2002 c 354: See RCW 41.80.907 through 41.80.910.
Effective date -- 1993 c 281: See note following RCW 41.06.022.
Construction -- Severability -- 1985 c 442: See notes following RCW 43.06.410.
State internship program -- Positions exempt from chapter 41.06 RCW: RCW 41.06.088.