Section ER 18.01 - Definitions In this chapter, unless the context otherwise requires:
(1) "Elected official" means a constitutional officer or other elected official under s. 20.923(2), Stats.(2) "Employee" means any person who receives remuneration for services rendered to the state under an employer-employee relationship in the classified or unclassified civil service except: (b) Employees of the University of Wisconsin System;(c) Unclassified staff of the legislature not identified under s. 20.923(4), Stats.;(d) Unclassified staff of a legislative service agency under subch. IV of ch. 13, Stats.;(e) Stenographers employed under s. 230.08(2) (g), Stats.; and(f) Staff of the state court system.(3) "Employment status" means the status of a person in the civil service under s. 230.08, Stats., while in pay status or on: (a) Approved leave of absence without pay;(c) Leave to serve in the unclassified service;(d) Leave of absence due to injury or illness arising out of state employment and covered by worker's compensation under ch. 102, Stats., or s. 230.36, Stats.;(f) Layoff prior to July 1, 2016 and subsequent restoration from layoff under s. ER-MRS 22.10 within 3 years.(4) "Immediate family" means:(a) Parents, step-parents, grandparents, foster parents, children, step-children, grandchildren, foster children, brothers and their spouses, sisters and their spouses, of the employee or spouse;(c) Aunts and uncles, sons-in-law or daughters-in-law of the employee or spouse; and(d) Other relatives of the employee or spouse providing they reside in the same household of the employee.(4m) "Layoff" means the termination of the services of an employee with permanent status in class from a position in a group in which a reduction in force is to be accomplished and which results in permissive reemployment eligibility of the affected employee to future positions.(5) Except as provided in s. ER 18.15, "leave credits" mean earned but unused annual leave, termination leave, sabbatical leave, sick leave, personal and legal holiday time, and holiday compensatory time off. "Leave credits" does not include compensatory time off credits earned for working overtime.(6) "Limited term employee" means a person who is an employee as a result of either:(a) Employment in the classified service in which the nature and conditions do not permit attainment of permanent status in class, for which the use of normal procedures for recruitment and selection are not practicable, and which is not project employment; or(b) Employment in the unclassified service in which the employee would have been considered a limited term employee, had employment been in the classified service.(7) "Sabbatical leave" means annual leave which was deferred during the year earned to be used in a subsequent year to extend the annual leave, unless used for termination leave.(8) "Termination leave" means annual leave which was deferred during the year earned to be used in a subsequent year to extend an employee's termination date or for payment in a lump sum upon termination.Wis. Admin. Code Department of Administration-Division of Personnel Management ER 18.01
Cr. Register, May, 1988, No. 389, eff. 6-1-88; correction in (2) (b) made under s. 13.93(2m) (b) 7, Stats., Register, October, 1994, No. 466; am. (5), Register, June, 1997, No. 498, eff. 7-1-97; am. (3) (f), Register, December, 1999, No. 528, eff. 1-1-00; correction in (2) (b) made under s. 13.93(2m) (b) 7, Stats., Register April 2002 No. 556.Amended by, 2015 Wis. Act 330 s. 20: am. (2) (b) Register April 2016 No. 724, eff.5/1/2016Amended by, CR 18-006: am. (2) (b), (e), (3) (f), (4m), (6) (a) Register July 2018 No. 751, eff. 8/1/2018