If you take a uniformed services leave, you need to provide your supervisor, your human resources representative and Benefits and Retirement Operations with written notice and a copy of your orders both when you leave employment to perform uniformed service (as in the military) and when you return to employment after performing uniformed service.

While you're performing uniformed service, your health care (medical, dental and vision) coverage and basic life insurance coverage may be continued, depending on the circumstances. Your health care coverage may be continued until your active duty ends, while your basic life insurance coverage may be continued only for up to 12 months. When the Benefits and Retirement Operations staff receives notice that you've begun active duty or active duty training, the staff contacts you about continuation of benefit coverage, arrangements for paying any benefit premiums you currently pay through payroll deduction, and options for continuing supplemental life insurance, basic and supplemental accidental death and dismemberment (AD&D) insurance, and basic and supplemental long-term disability (LTD) insurance.

If you leave employment to serve in the military or are called to active duty, you may be eligible for benefits under the Uniformed Services Employment and Reemployment Rights Act of 1994 (USERRA) and King County Ordinance 13377. For more information, contact Benefits and Retirement Operations. (See Contact Information.)