{"data":{"id":"us-ak/as-39.20.530","jurisdiction":"us-ak","citation":"AS 39.20.530","heading":"Application to other laws.","body":"(a) The provisions of AS 39.20.500 — 39.20.550 do not affect any other provision of law relating to sex discrimination, pregnancy, or parenthood.\n(b) The provisions of AS 39.20.500 — 39.20.550 are subject to collective bargaining. However, except as provided in (c) of this section, a collective bargaining contract that does not contain benefit provisions at least as beneficial to the employee as those provided by AS 39.20.500 — 39.20.550 shall be considered to contain the benefit provisions of those statutes.\n(c) The commissioner of education and early development may approve a collective bargaining agreement entered into between a school district or a regional educational attendance area and a bargaining organization representing certificated employees that does not meet the leave requirements of AS 39.20.500 — 39.20.550, if the district or attendance area establishes to the satisfaction of the commissioner that a variance from the requirements of AS 39.20.500 — 39.20.550 is necessary to avoid a hardship on the school district based on the lack of qualified, available substitute teachers to replace teachers on leave under AS 39.20.500 — 39.20.550 or the lack of available housing for replacement teachers who do not live in the community.","path":["Title 39. Public Officers and Employees.","Chapter 20. Compensation, Allowances, and Leave.","Article 5. Pregnancy, Childbirth, and Family Leave for Public Employees."],"source_url":"https://www.akleg.gov/basis/statutes.asp#39.20.530","current_through":"Alaska Statutes 2025 (34th Legislature, 2025-2026)","vintage":"","retrieved_at":"2026-09-02T06:19:06Z","sha256":"e2a7b7f2ddca7c435bc1c06d23e40461a41d3a668c7c872207f25fb737a4b737","source_id":"us-ak","stale":false,"prev":"us-ak/as-39.20.520","next":"us-ak/as-39.20.540"},"notice":"GroundRules: Original legal text. Not legal advice."}