{"data":{"id":"us-wa/rcw-28b.50.489","jurisdiction":"us-wa","citation":"RCW 28B.50.489","heading":"Part-time academic employees—State-mandated benefits—Definitions.","body":"For the purposes of determining eligibility of state-mandated insurance, retirement benefits under RCW 28B.10.400, and sick leave for part-time academic employees in community and technical colleges, the following definitions shall be used:\n(1) \"Full-time academic workload\" means the number of in-class teaching hours that a full-time instructor must teach to fulfill his or her employment obligations in a given discipline in a given college. If full-time academic workload is defined in a contract adopted through the collective bargaining process, that definition shall prevail. If the full-time workload bargained in a contract includes more than in-class teaching hours, only that portion that is in-class teaching hours may be considered academic workload.\n(2) \"In-class teaching hours\" means contact classroom and lab hours in which full or part-time academic employees are performing contractually assigned teaching duties. The in-class teaching hours shall not include any duties performed in support of, or in addition to, those contractually assigned in-class teaching hours.\n(3) \"Academic employee\" in a community or technical college means any teacher, counselor, librarian, or department head who is employed by a college district, whether full or part-time, with the exception of the chief administrative officer of, and any administrator in, each college district.\n(4) \"Part-time academic workload\" means any percentage of a full-time academic workload for which the part-time academic employee is not paid on the full-time academic salary schedule.","path":["Title 28B","Chapter 28B.50"],"source_url":"https://app.leg.wa.gov/rcw/default.aspx?cite=28B.50.489","current_through":"July 15, 2026","vintage":"","retrieved_at":"2026-09-06T01:52:33Z","sha256":"7d45154c89c26c964b4e8b6b361969d3b64d302c5d238b403f28167a0c9044ec","source_id":"us-wa","stale":false,"prev":"us-wa/rcw-28b.50.484","next":"us-wa/rcw-28b.50.4891"},"notice":"GroundRules: Original legal text. Not legal advice."}