The definitions in this section apply throughout this section and RCW 49.28.140 and 49.28.150 unless the context clearly requires otherwise.
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RCW 49.28.130
Definition of "employee" - Applicability until January 1, 2025 - 2024 c 354:
"(1) Until July 1, 2025, the definition of "employee" under RCW 49.28.130 as that statute existed prior to January 1, 2025, applies to the following hospitals:
"(a) Hospitals certified as critical access hospitals;
"(b) Hospitals with fewer than 25 acute care licensed beds;
"(c) Hospitals certified by the centers for medicare and medicaid services as sole community hospitals that are not owned or operated by a health system that owns or operates more than one acute hospital licensed under chapter 70.41 RCW; and
"(d) Hospitals located on an island operating within a public hospital district in Skagit county.
"(2) This section expires July 1, 2025." [2024 c 354,§ 2.]
Effective date- 2019 c 296: See note following RCW 49.12.480.
Finding-2002 c 112: "Washington state is experiencing a critical shortage of qualified, competent health care workers. To safeguard the health, efficiency, and general well-being of health care workers and promote patient safety and quality of care, the legislature finds, as a matter of public policy, that required overtime work should be limited with reasonable safeguards in order to ensure that the public will continue to receive safe, quality care." [ 2002 c 112 § 1.]